Unconscious Bias Workshop

  • Datum: 10.05.2021
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 13:30
  • Vortragende(r): Hanna Völkle, Leoni Vollmar
  • https://www.eaf-berlin.de/eaf-berlin/team/
  • Gastgeber: Kirsten Kelleher
  • Kontakt: gb@molgen.mpg.de
This short workshop aims at making the participants more sensitive towards unconscious patterns of thinking and showing how they influence our behavior and decisions. They will be encouraged to openly reflect on the issue of diversity and actively tackle stereotyped thinking.

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"Part-time people are not interested in careers, women are communicative, men are assertive, Muslims are intolerant, and gays are affected" - we all know such and other prejudices. At the same time, we use all cognitive simplifications because they reduce the immense complexity of our environment and combine them into manageable categories.
To succeed, organizations need to attract and retain the best talents. They are hampered by one crucial factor: unconscious bias - unconscious thought patterns and stereotypes that influence our actions beyond our consciousness.
Unconscious Bias is human– but it results in the fact, that we automatically find people pleasant that are similar to ourselves, that something unknown seems rather suspicious and that we take mental cut-offs by automatically completing missing information about others. This reduces diversity in organizations, as it affects who will be hired, receives funding or takes the next career step.

Hence, Unconscious Bias is a leadership issue – because in order to be a good leader, it is important to be aware of unconscious preferences and patterns of thinking to make good decisions.

This course is open to group leaders and postdocs with an interest in leadership.


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