Mitigating Team Bias

Learn how to uncover, understand, and mitigate individual and team bias.

Our custom solutions are delivered for your specific context and priorities
This is beyond traditional training; it’s deeply practical and action oriented
Flexible delivery from a 90-minute remote session to a multi-day deep dive

Overview

Conscious and unconscious bias affect our actions and decisions and can inadvertently lead to taking the wrong path. The deviation from standards of judgement are caused by inferences, assessments, and perceptions that are unreasonable. Enable your team to tackle their blind spots and encourage inclusive thinking to help create respectful teams that drive elevated outcomes.

Led by Rob, a seasoned expert with three decades of experience in team effectiveness, this workshop equips participants with the essential mindsets, practices, and tools to uncover, understand, and mitigate individual and team bias.

Rob's passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential is evident throughout this carefully crafted session. Drawing from his extensive background in enabling effective team performance, Rob guides participants through proven methodologies that have consistently delivered results across various industries and organizational levels.

Participants receive optional certification on successful completion.

Key Outcomes

This interactive and practical workshop offers:

Research insights into the impact of bias on effective teamwork
A co-created understanding of individual and team biases
A common understanding of conscious and unconscious biases
A cogent framework to uncover, understand, and mitigate bias
Hands-on experience applying the framework to your context
An opportunity for participants to reflect on, and re-direct, behavior
Strategies to overcome common biases in team meetings
Broadened mindsets to welcome diverse viewpoints and ideas
Techniques to sustain and embed these practices over the long term
A commitment to winning together as a team

175 Biases Impact Your Team’s Performance

Key Topics

One: The Upsides and Downsides of Individual and Team Judgment

Explore the science behind why our judgment is critical to team success and how our decision processes can be fooled into making unreasonable choices.

Two: Cultivating an Open Mindset

Discover the critical elements of bias; individual and team, conscious and unconscious. Explore how 175 different biases may be impacting your team’s results and create a psychologically safe space to talk about them.

Three: A Framework for Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Bias

Explore and master a cogent framework that will guide your team through what is often seen as a taboo topic. This step-by-step approach safely enables individuals and teams to navigate the complex range of biases in a productive way that drives greater business outcomes.

Four: Real-World Application

Put theory into practice by applying the framework to past and present decisions and explore which biases were at play in distorting actions.

Five: Identifying Common Team Biases

Learn and reflect on effective strategies to overcome biases in daily work. Discover shortcuts that will help you implement and sustain these practices in your daily work.

Why This Experience Is Different

This workshop goes beyond theory, offering a hands-on experience
You’ll confidently learn and apply the practices and tools
We design for long-term sustainability, so the benefits of this session continue to impact your team in the future
We’re proud of our references and we guarantee our work