How the Brain Forms Bias

Diversity & Inclusion Short Course

How many workplace decisions are shaped by biases your people don't even realise they have?

Bias operates below the level of conscious awareness, influencing how we perceive people, make decisions and build relationships. Grounded in neuroscience, SBI's immersive two-day Diversity & Inclusion course helps participants understand how unconscious bias forms, recognise its impact on workplace interactions and develop greater self-awareness.

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Ideal Participants

SBI's D&I short course is suitable for professionals at every organisational level and can be tailored to your organisation's context, culture and strategic priorities. It's available as an in-house short course for 10+ participants.

What Will Change?

Participants will learn to:

  • Develop a practical understanding of diversity, inclusion and their importance in today's workplace
  • Recognise how unconscious bias influences perception, behaviour and everyday decisions
  • Increase self-awareness by identifying personal patterns of thinking and judgement
  • Understand how bias affects relationships, collaboration, team performance, productivity and engagement
  • Learn practical techniques for recognising and mitigating unconscious bias
  • Strengthen more inclusive behaviours that support trust, fairness and better workplace outcomes
  • Make more intentional decisions, collaborate more effectively and maintain a more inclusive organisational culture

See the bias. Change the outcome.

What's Involved?

This interactive, highly participative learning experience combines neuro-sensemaking, facilitated discussion and practical reflection to create meaningful behavioural insight.

Participants will experience:

  • Two days of immersive, facilitator-led learning
  • An individual pre-work assignment to establish personal awareness and context
  • Impactful intervention in an environment of psychological safety
  • Practical neuroscience that explains how unconscious bias develops and influences behaviour
  • Guided reflection, discussion and workplace application activities
  • Facilitation by SBI educators with deep expertise in this particular niche
Duration

2 days + individual pre-work assignment

Delivery

Available online or in person for intact teams at your organisation or chosen venue

Availability

Scheduled around your organisational requirements and SBI educator availability

Certification

Includes a Certificate of Attendance

Why Choose a Short Course?

For organisations needing focused development in a specific area across a broad audience, SBI's short courses offer targeted skill-building that closes critical capability gaps – with minimal time away from work.

The range of courses is impactful, immersive and rooted in neuroscience, to create both SHIFT and IMPACT for your team. You can plug one or more into your business immediately.

Why CHROs value SBI Short Courses:

  • Scalability
  • Cost-efficiency
  • Flexible participation
  • Easy integration into existing development plans

Precision learning for specific capability gaps

Need more than a short course?

The SBI team can combine multiple short courses into a customised short learning programme for you.