Unconscious Bias programme

In recent years, unconscious bias training has received negative press regarding its effectiveness.  Done well unconscious bias training can help people recognise their own biases and how it may impact on their judgments and behaviours towards people.

In a 2019 meta-analysis of more than 490 studies involving over 80,000 people, psychologists found that unconscious bias training did not change biased behaviour and in some cases the training had backfired sending the message the biases are involuntary and widespread. But it does not have to be this way.

Our programme firstly focuses on increasing awareness of what unconscious bias is, but we do not stop there, we then ask everyone to undertake a test to assess their own biases.  Although we may never be able to completely remove someone's biases the next stage in our programme when will teach them how manage their biases, change their behaviour and think for themselves regarding their own progress.

Our programme operates in way to support long term change, firstly we will educate, then we will give individuals the opportunity to reflect on their own biases and then we will work with them to identify strategies for managing bias so at the end of the programme they are able to develop their own plan for sustainable change.