Most diversity training is based on the theory that the gender gap is largely due to the damaging nature of stereotypes. For example, because of a likability penalty, we’re told, women are promoted less often and grow less interested in senior roles.
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BiasSync today launched its proprietary tool to assess unconscious bias in large corporations and government agencies. The Los Angeles startup provides organizations and their leaders with aggregated, actionable data and professional development content.
Every human being – including every employee at your company – has biases. When business decisions are influenced by unconscious bias, it can have a major impact on the diversity and culture of your company.
BCT Partners and Red Fern Consulting announce the launch of the first Virtual Reality tool that will transform diversity training programs and help to mitigate unconscious bias in the workplace.
As SkillPath partners with local businesses to provide lifelong learning to Kansas City professionals, these opportunities – and more – will continue to change corporate training and the trajectory of learning.
Corporate responsibility is no longer simply about “doing good.” It is essential to the financial growth of the enterprise.
Here are six reasons training functions need to be cautious of promoting and depending on unconscious bias training alone.
Implicit bias, like the kind critics are saying led to the arrests at Starbucks last week, can have a large and detrimental impact in the workplace. However, anti-bias training is notoriously difficult to develop and implement effectively.
While there are many possible causes and solutions to the gender gap, learning and development holds at least one key to its extinction. And it will take both men and women to get there.
A trending and hot topic in the world of Diversity & Inclusion, D&I as its affectionately called, is unconscious bias.