Uncovering Unconscious Bias

HR Reimagined: SHRM Northern California Annual Conference 2021

We live in a rapidly changing world that rewards flexible thinking, conceptualizing, and sensemaking. This course aims to teach you ways to see beyond your perceptions and explore and implement alternatives. The workshop gives you greater flexibility to examine, understand, change your worldview and expand your horizon. This 60-minute workshop offers you the tools to create that flexibility.

Learning objectives include how bias affects workplace relationships and decision-making, how bias can affect choices at work, conduct personal social network analysis, and develop new practices and skills to minimize bias in business decisions.

Date(s) & Time(s): 
Friday, September 24, 2021 - 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Presenter: 

Lorne Epstein, SHRM SCP

Lorne
Epstein, SHRM SCP

Lorne Epstein, SHRM-SCP, MSOD, social scientist, keynote, and Vistage speaker who consults with leaders on methods to improve the ROI of decision-making by reducing biases. Over 13,000 professionals have taken his workshops. He has been quoted in Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. As a leader in Talent Acquisition, he built recruiting teams in the U.S., India, and Brazil. His research focuses on improving decision-making and reducing the impacts of unconscious bias in the workplace. His book, You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over a half-million times worldwide.

Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Ethical Practice
Intended Audience: 
All Levels
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