Learn how to identify unconscious bias in the workplace and how to avoid costly litigation.
Whether you are a small, midsize, or Fortune 500 Company, your organization has employees and thus implicit bias. This topic will help you learn what unconscious bias is, identify it in the workplace, and put strategies in place to reduce its impact. The failure to identify bias results in increased litigation and poor morale; that is a cost that is too high in an ever-competitive landscape.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to recognize how bias is formed in your unconscious.
- You will be able to identify different types of unconscious bias.
- You will be able to recognize strategies to disrupt bias in the workplace.
- You will be able to identify the ramifications of implicit bias.
Agenda
What Is Implicit Bias?
- Understand How Bias Is Formed in Your Unconscious
- Learn the Three Types of Unconscious Bias: Affinity, Confirmation, and Social Comparison Bias
- Understand the Direct and Indirect Impact of Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Now That We Know What It Is - What Do We Do?
- Develop/Learn Strategies to Identify and Disrupt Bias in the Workplace
- Learn Strategies to Decrease Unconscious Bias in the Recruitment Process
- What Is the Legal Ramification of Implicit Bias?
Speakers
Julie A. Proscia, Esq.,
SmithAmundsen LLC- Equity Partner in the office of Amundsen Davis, LLC who has been practicing for over twenty years
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of Labor & Employment, Public and Private Sectors
- Prolific national speaker on numerous topics, including supervisor training, wage & hour compliance, and independent contractor issues
- Author of several publications related to the areas of gender identity issues and changes in the workplace, minimizing risk in employment interviews, sexual harassment in both public and private sector issues, biometrics/data privacy issues, and NLRB trends and updates
- Member of the Illinois Senate Task Force on Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Awareness, has been selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers List for multiple years, Selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars List, and recognized as 40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for human resource managers, benefits and payroll administrators, personnel managers, business owners and managers, controllers, and attorneys.
