FranklinCovey and Simon & Schuster Launch New Book, The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias 158 0 Kommentare How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams - Seite 2

Unconscious bias can take many forms. It affects our thought processes, reasoning, what we remember, how we make decisions, how we relate to one another, and the talent we recruit, such as a preference for hiring someone because they look like us or have the same background, gender, age, or education. It can impact how we identify potential and who we choose to develop on a team, as we may unintentionally favor certain groups of people, regardless of capability. It might affect employee engagement and turnover, limit talent, and make it challenging for teams to work cross functionally. Unconscious bias can show up in the disappointment of a hiring manager when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave, or preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school, or assuming a man is more entitled to speak in a meeting than his female junior colleague.

“This book is our contribution to help advance a more inclusive world, where everyone can name and take responsibility for their own biases, can use empathy and curiosity to more effectively connect with others, and can choose courage to make positive changes at work. Discrimination, racial injustice, and injustice in any form have no place in the workplace or society. This includes race, color, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, family or marital status, physical appearance, education religious beliefs, and geography. As human beings that are all connected, we can do better,” said Mark Murphy, FranklinCovey Senior Consultant.

The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias is based on enduring principles and practices. It provides a proven framework for leaders at all levels to reframe the nature of bias, build the critical skills needed to transform behaviors, and to constructively address bias to enhance individual, team and organizational performance. The authors offer their unique perspective on the topic with heartfelt, inspiring stories about their experience with unconscious bias. They also provide more than thirty unique tools readers can use to help them overcome their own unconscious bias.

Readers will learn:

A framework for making progress on bias
How to identify bias in themselves and others with how they think and act in the workplace
The common traps that lead to biased thinking and when to pause and more fully consider decisions and behaviors
To cultivate deep and meaningful connections between people of varying backgrounds by using empathy and curiosity to expand mutual understanding and improve decision-making
To choose courage and engage with care and boldness in addressing the full spectrum of biases that limit people and constrain performance, such as race, gender, disability, sexual-orientation, education, socioeconomic status, and extroversion/introversion
To create a workplace culture in which everyone is respected, valued and can thrive and contribute their highest performance