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How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams
"The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias" by Pamela Fuller, Mark Murphy, and Anne Chow helps leaders identify and address unconscious bias in the workplace through practical advice and tools.
To start with, let’s talk about you.
We’re going to walk you through an exercise – so if you can, it might be helpful to hit pause a few times during this chapter, to give yourself some thinking time. If you can grab a pen and paper, even better.
Ready? Great. Now, ask yourself: which of those characteristics might cause you to feel biased – either positively or negatively – toward other people? Say you’re a fitness freak – do you tend to judge people who don’t take care of their body? Mark each of those characteristics – in your mind or on paper – with an X.
Second question: which of the characteristics might make others biased toward you? If you’re Black, for example, you might very well have experienced racism. Put an O by those characteristics. Some characteristics will likely have both Xs and Os – maybe even all of them.
Look at your list again. Think about the biases they could cause. How do these potential biases affect you? Do they get in the way of your goals? Do they make you act in a certain way?
We all have biases – lots of them. They’re tied up with our identity: who we are affects how we feel about certain issues, and hence how we think of other people. So the first step in understanding our own biases, whether they’re conscious or unconscious, is to understand ourselves.
In other words, every bias has what you might call an origin story, and to move beyond that bias, it helps to understand that story.
Here’s an example. One of the authors, Pamela, used to favor job applicants with prestigious degrees. Eventually, she realized there was a very personal reason why: simply put, it was her background. Coming from a family of immigrants that valued education highly, she’d always placed high-level education on a pedestal.
Of course, the reality is that this isn’t the only indicator of capability: you need to look way beyond education on a résumé. But now Pamela realizes she holds this bias, she’s a lot more sensitive to this when she’s recruiting.
The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias (2020) is a guide to unconscious bias at work: how to identify it, and what to do about it. Leaders and managers have a particular responsibility to ensure unconscious bias doesn’t harm the careers of their team members.
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias (2019) is a thought-provoking exploration of the ways in which bias can impact leadership and decision-making. Here's why this book is worth reading:
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The main message of The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias is to help leaders understand and overcome biases in order to create a more inclusive and fair workplace.
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The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias is worth reading for leaders seeking to understand and address unconscious biases that can impact decision-making and team dynamics.
Who is the author of The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias?
The authors of The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias are Pamela Fuller, Mark Murphy, and Anne Chow.