The Designer Lenses We Wear

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 30 minutes
Social Sensitivity micro course
Course overview
Learn the five perceptual filters that shape how you read colleagues, and a three-question pause that tests your first interpretation before it becomes a decision.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

The five designer lenses that shape what we notice and how we interpret it, and why none of us can simply take them off.

A tool you can use this week

The Interpretive Pause, three questions to ask before acting on a first interpretation, plus a Personal Lens Inventory to apply to a real situation.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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