During Taz's session ‘inclusive thinking’ you’ll learn to understand the impact of unconscious bias. You’ll learn about the benefits of stereotyping, how it actually helps you survive in daily life and how you can try to limit its side-effects.
Because your brain constantly links new images to existing information. It does so to shape order in the world around you. However, such information categorisation is often rather short-sighted and that causes all sorts of problems and challenges.
In this interactive session, Taz discloses how our brains work and what we can do to improve our judgement.
During the expert session, Taz Latif engages the audience through methods like a Q&A session, live demonstrations using the Mentimeter app, and interactive exercises such as the "Blind Spots Exercise." These activities help participants identify their biases, reflect on patterns in their data, and learn strategies for preventing harm caused by unconscious biases. Taz discusses the impact of biases on decision-making processes, both at work and in daily life, and introduces frameworks like the Space Two Model to combat these biases.
The Mentimeter app facilitates audience engagement and provides a safe space for participants to share their thoughts anonymously.
Gain insight into how unconscious biases shape our perceptions and interactions, affecting both professional and personal relationships. Engage in the "Blind Spots Exercise" to identify your own biases and gain valuable self-awareness.
Learn strategies for preventing biases from causing harm by understanding the four areas where bias can manifest: Affinity, Anchoring, Availability, and Automation. Explore the concept of "four-factor friction" to create more inclusive and fair environments.
Adopt a structured approach to hiring by avoiding confirmation bias and the Halo effect when evaluating candidates. Utilize tools like the Space Two Model for mindful inclusion and ensure that skills and qualifications are the primary factors in successful employment.
In this expert session, participants were welcomed by Sharifa Smith and introduced to speaker Indie Taz, an inclusion consultant and educator with extensive experience in addressing unconscious bias. Indie began by emphasizing the significance of acknowledging and respecting differences within diverse groups and discussed her background in overcoming biases through educational experiences.
Indie then delved into the concept of unconscious bias, which she defined as favoring or not favoring people without realizing it. She invited participants to share their own definitions and experiences with unconscious bias, leading to an engaging and enlightening conversation on this crucial topic.
Indie introduced the "Blind Spots Exercise," also known as the "Trusted 10 exercise," designed to help participants identify their biases by listing ten trusted individuals and recording their demographic information.
Throughout the session, Indie and Taz Latif, who later led a thought-provoking exercise using the Mentimeter app, discussed various aspects of unconscious bias, including its impact on decision-making processes at work and in daily life. They highlighted the importance of recognizing biases and making deliberate efforts to prevent them from causing harm.
Indie and Taz emphasized that our biases are not inherently bad but can become harmful when they harm others. They introduced concepts such as affinity, anchoring, availability, and automation, which refer to four areas where bias can manifest.
Indie also shared the importance of understanding the science behind biases and provided frameworks for participants to mitigate them.
Taz then discussed how biases can impact our decision-making processes in various contexts, such as hiring decisions. He introduced the concept of confirmation bias and the Halo effect, which can influence interviewers' perceptions and lead them to make judgments based on irrelevant factors rather than merit.
Taz encouraged participants to explore different types of biases and learn strategies for addressing them.
To combat these biases, Taz introduced the Space Two Model, a framework for mindful inclusion with six proven strategies designed to help individuals understand their biases and prevent harm. Participants were encouraged to apply this model to their own experiences and discuss it with colleagues to hold each other accountable.
Taz concluded the session by addressing specific questions on changing others' biases, approaching difficult conversations, and anonymizing CVs during hiring processes. He emphasized the importance of recognizing our biases and making deliberate efforts to overcome them to create a more inclusive and fair environment for everyone.
Taz utilized the Mentimeter app throughout the session to gather feedback from attendees and facilitate audience engagement.
Throughout the expert session, Indie and Taz highlighted the significance of creating a safe environment for discussions about hidden aspects of people's identities and culture, known as the iceberg model. They encouraged participants to be aware of their biases and to make conscious efforts to reduce them in their decision-making processes.
The interactive nature of the session using the Mentimeter app provided valuable insights into unconscious bias and fostered a deep understanding of its impact on our lives and the importance of overcoming it.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Very interesting and mind-opening session. Thank you!
Amazing session - really insightful and gave me a great view on how I can be an Ally.
Really good session - Taz is an excellent communicator. Brilliant session.
Loved the session! Really interesting and very well presented :)
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Great set up of the lecture including interaction.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
During Taz's session ‘inclusive thinking’ you’ll learn to understand the impact of unconscious bias. You’ll learn about the benefits of stereotyping, how it actually helps you survive in daily life and how you can try to limit its side-effects. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
Taz Latif is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.3 out of 5, across 671 responses, and rate Taz personally 4.5 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Taz, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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