FranklinCovey and Simon & Schuster Launch New Book, The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias

How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams - Seite 3

As leaders and teams in organizations become more aware of and understand bias, they can address it by noticing and acknowledging their own biases to make progress on seeking, including, and valuing different perspectives. These behaviors build a culture in which individuals can contribute their best thinking and teams cultivate open and effective collaboration.

Pamela Fuller, FranklinCovey Thought Leader, Inclusion and Bias, said, “Leadership cannot be great if it isn’t inclusive, if it leaves anyone behind. In order to achieve results, leaders must ensure that each member of their team can confidently state, ‘I am a valued member of a winning team doing meaningful work in an environment of trust.’ Without inclusion and the sincere intent to explore biases that could be unintentionally excluding some, and therefore limiting performance, this statement cannot occur.”

The co-authors believe that every workplace can achieve its highest performance rate once biases are identified and appropriate action is taken so that employees are allowed to become whole people who are inspired to reach their highest potential. By recognizing unconscious bias and making true understanding and change a priority in the workplace, organizations can mitigate its negative consequences, unlocking the human potential of every person.

The new book bears the same name as FranklinCovey’s leadership solution, Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential. The work session establishes a connection between unconscious bias and individual, team and organizational performance. It provides organizations with a framework for addressing unconscious bias in order to build a culture that values diversity and inclusion. The solution is included in the FranklinCovey All Access Pass, which provides passholders with unlimited access to FranklinCovey’s entire collection of best-in-class content. Passholders can assemble, integrate and deliver that content in an almost limitless combination through various delivery channels and integrated into existing training solutions. Passholders also have exclusive access to an implementation specialist and other add-on services, such as coaching, to ensure they are unleashing the full scope and power of All Access Pass to achieve their key business objectives.