Mitigating Unconscious Bias in the Employee Life Cycle

Unconscious bias can have a negative impact on talent management, whether that’s attracting, recruiting, developing or retaining employees. Increase your awareness of where biases may be affecting human resources processes within your organisation, limiting the opportunities for diverse talent to join, grow and create a productive, inclusive working environment.

Participants will:
- Expand on your understanding of the neuroscience underpinning unconscious bias and how it relates to human resources systems
- Understand how social experiences create assumptions of common sense and stereotypes that inform our decision-making processes about people
- Understand how our workplaces and our human resources systems are the product of culture and history
- Reflect on how biases can prevent certain groups joining or progressing within our workforces and develop strategies to mitigate this
- Look at examples of best practice within New Zealand and global organisations

Please note, the Understanding Unconscious Bias workshop is a prerequisite to this course. This training is available at this location earlier in the day. To book both workshops at a 10 per cent discount, contact training@diversityworksnz.org.nz.