UNCONSCIOUS BIAS TRAINING

Sadie offers customized training curricula to address unconscious bias in team members.  The specific curriculum will be developed after a conversation about your team’s specific needs and outcomes.  Sadie’s approach is to first engage participants in a broader conversation about mindsets and biases – this creates more openness and willingness in people to examine the impacts of their biases and reduces their discomfort and fear about addressing tricky topics. She also typically includes a conversation about your purpose and values - when people commit to a coherent and collaborative story of “this is us, who we are, what we stand for, and why we do what we do” they also tend to expend more effort to challenge and adjust their mindsets and behaviors.

Training curricula often include some or all of the following components:

• Experiential training in mindsets, biases, assumptions, and resulting behaviors

• Candid, facilitated conversations about how biases have created specific impacts at your organization and how to work toward resolving those

• Strategies and tools for challenging our biases – these tools can be applied immediately

• Strategies for developing a system to continuously reinforce awareness and reduce or eliminate future biased behavior

• Experiential approach to aligning purpose, values and behavior – often when we define our values and then look candidly at our behavior we make new commitments to acting on our principles

• Reinforcing team members’ commitment to adopting a mindset of continuous growth and learning