The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Your Company and Your Career

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you find yourself staying silent when you know you should speak up?  Do you understand unconscious bias and the role it has in the workplace?  On today’s episode of the Digital Enterprise Society Podcast Thom Singer interviews attorney, speaker, consultant and author Kelly Charles-Collins about unconscious bias and doing what it takes to keep your company on the right side of the next #hashtag movement. They discuss the differences between racism and unconscious bias, steps you can take to minimize unconscious biases in your company and your career, and the importance of never being a bystander when action needs to happen.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p><strong>Understand unconscious bias</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The stereotypes you make about people have an effect on your daily decisions in the workplace. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Unconscious bias has the ability to protect us, but more often it betrays us when we make decisions based on incorrect information. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Racism and unconscious bias are not the same thing — one uses power structures to intentionally marginalize groups of people while the other is based on cognitive instinct — but the impact is still the same. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Discover and minimize unconscious biases in the workplace</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Understanding these biases will help monitor patterns of behavior that may not best serve your company or your career.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Subjective “good fit” is the enemy of diversity and inclusion in the workplace while objective “good fit” considers individual contributions to the efforts of the workplace.</span></li> </ul> <ul>