Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity and Entrepreneurship 707: How To Work With Unconscious Bias In Your Organization by Christine Comaford
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Sep 7, 2022 AI Snips
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Limits of Traditional Diversity Training
- Diversity training alone does not guarantee behavioral change or positive results in organizations.
- Some diversity trainings even had adverse effects like shaming and backlash among leaders.
Nature of Unconscious Bias
- Humans are naturally unconscious and biased due to brain evolution for fast threat detection.
- Bias simplifies processing huge information flow but can distort perception.
Brain's Information Filtering Role
- Humans process about 11 million bits of information unconsciously and only 40 bits consciously.
- Unconscious bias helps the brain delete, distort, and generalize information to prevent overload.