Unconscious Bias Training

Collaborative design. Positive delivery. Practical outcomes.

Our unconscious bias training will be customised to your specific objectives and business goals. Led by your priorities, our diversity consultants will incorporate a range of unconscious bias training activities into your course, including:

• Presentations to set the context
• Personal experiences
• Customised actor-based scenarios
• Real-life case studies
• Facilitated exercises for individuals, small groups and the whole group
• Reflection, review and action planning.

As a result, your delegates will leave our sessions with the skills they need to:

• Clearly articulate their commitment to overcoming unconscious bias in the workplace
• Acknowledge the subtle ways in which unconscious bias plays out at work
• Understand the role of diversity best practice in their daily duties
• Feel clear about the various aspects within their roles that may be open to unconscious bias
• Identify opportunities to promote best practice and work with cultural adaptability
• Employ a set of practical tools and action plans to address unconscious bias wherever they work.

Delivery Options

We offer a variety of flexible delivery options to support you on your journey in tackling unconscious bias in the workplace. From in-persons sessions, to bespoke webinars and interactive online learning, there’s something for every diversity challenge and need.

Get in touch today and share with us your requirements. We’ll do the rest.

Experiential actor-based unconscious bias training from EW Group

Successful diversity management depends on bringing unconscious bias to life in innovative ways. Our unconscious bias training programmes are built around experiential learning to more meaningfully engage your workforce with addressing unconscious bias in all its forms. In live actor-based workshops, we use intelligently scripted scenarios to highlight what so often stays hidden in the workplace. The difference-maker: your delegates will experience the realities of unconscious bias first-hand, up close and personal.

EW Group clients love our sessions using actors. Our scenarios help them to not only see but also experience how subtle disadvantage works, and the emotional impact it has on individuals. By experiencing unconscious bias for themselves in new and surprising ways, your staff can then set about driving genuine culture change on their return to work.

Watch the video below for an example of our actor-based scenarios on unconscious bias in the workplace. How do you think the conversation goes? Would you change anything?

Another feature of our actor-based unconscious bias training is our candid scenarios. An example: at one of our events at the Shard in London, we stationed actors in the lift to have a conversation as our delegates arrived. One of the actors plays a woman just back from maternity leave, asking to be part of a new project team. Her manager (our other actor) doesn’t handle the situation well, and our delegates overhear the whole thing. They then arrived at our event with bad practice ringing in their ears, until we revealed the actors – prompting further lively discussion and a live re-working with the actors of how the manager could have approached things better.