Bias in Hiring, Promotion and Everyday Decisions

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 45 minutes
Being Conscious about Unconscious Bias micro course
Course overview
Use a simple five-step checklist to make fairer, more consistent decisions about hiring, reviews, promotion, assignments and recognition.
  • 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

Explain how affinity bias, the halo and horns effects and name bias can enter decisions about hiring, performance, promotion, assignments and recognition.

A tool you can use this week

The Fair Decision Checklist, an original Civility Experts tool with five checks for any decision about people: set criteria first, use the same questions for everyone, gather more than one view, slow down at the moment of judgment, and check outcomes for patterns afterwards. The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

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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