For Part 3 of our series that takes you behind the scenes in some of SHAMBAUGH’s executive training sessions about inclusion and bias, I’d like to share some steps that SHAMBAUGH recommends to stay one step ahead of your unconscious bias to outthink your brain’s primitive, instinctual response: Notice that bias can go both ways. Often when we think […]
What Gets in the Way of Creating and Leveraging an Inclusive Culture? Bias
Welcome to Part Two of our series that takes you “Behind the Scenes in an Executive Training Session.” In my last post, I discussed inclusion, sharing a summary of SHAMBAUGH’s framework from our executive training sessions about how to help people feel more heard at work through an integrated approach to creating an inclusive culture. Now […]
Inclusion: The Path to High Performance Cultures
Does your company truly understand the business case for inclusion? Or is your leadership team still thinking about inclusion solely in terms of compliance, such as awareness training? A big reason why we haven’t made more progress in the last 20 years is that many executives are still stuck in the latter way of thinking. […]
Is Unconscious Bias Affecting Your Judgment in the Workplace?
If you have a brain, you have bias. The human brain is wired to take mental shortcuts. Also known as heuristics, these shortcuts are nature’s way of helping us to process information and make decisions quickly. We’re good at filtering the immediate environment by using our past knowledge and experiences to help us make decisions […]