Managing Unconscious Bias in Hiring and Promotion Decisions

A concise, decision-focused programme covering unconscious bias in hiring and promotion end to end.

📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

When unconscious bias in hiring and promotion is unclear, people default to protecting their own function. Authority is granted by the organisation; credibility in hiring and promotion is earned separately. Improvement in this aspect of organisational leadership stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. They acquire practical criteria for judging when unconscious bias in hiring and promotion is working and when it is only appearing to. The programme works equally well for those formalising the practice within organisational leadership for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Comparative studies of hiring and promotion across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about unconscious bias in hiring and promotion in their own setting. The course covers hiring and promotion at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of organisational leadership that would make a visible difference.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Resolve conflict about unconscious bias in hiring and promotion without leaving residue.

02

Develop successors capable of running hiring and promotion without you.

03

Plan the handover of unconscious bias in hiring and promotion so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.

04

Build a register of the risks attaching to hiring and promotion and keep it current.

05

Make decisions on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion at the right speed for the risk involved.

06

Align the incentives of different functions so hiring and promotion is not quietly sabotaged.

07

Adapt recognised practice on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion to local constraints without hollowing it out.

Who Should Attend

01

Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.

02

Newly promoted managers taking on hiring and promotion for the first time.

03

Project and programme managers whose success depends on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.

04

Managers of geographically distributed teams handling hiring and promotion.

05

Department heads and senior managers accountable for unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.

06

Managers with direct responsibility for hiring and promotion within the management team.

Course Modules

01

Unconscious bias in hiring and promotion: resilience and the personal cost of leading

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Deciding on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion when the information will never be complete

  • Give one piece of specific feedback on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion within the week.
  • Confirm that the people affected by hiring and promotion heard it from you first.
  • Remove steps in unconscious bias in hiring and promotion that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around hiring and promotion are understood.

Session 2The hard cases in hiring and promotion and how to reason about them

  • Confirm that reporting on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion reaches the people who can act.
  • Set the decision rights on hiring and promotion: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
  • Review whether unconscious bias in hiring and promotion is aligned with the objectives of the management team.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about hiring and promotion.
02

Hiring and promotion: influence across functions you do not control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing hiring and promotion when nothing has gone wrong

  • Set escalation thresholds for unconscious bias in hiring and promotion that work out of hours.
  • Identify which function can quietly block hiring and promotion and address it directly.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • Review a past decision on hiring and promotion and state honestly what you would change.

Session 2Recovering after a visible mistake on hiring and promotion

  • Rehearse the briefing on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion that would follow an incident.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates hiring and promotion is under control.
  • Decide the point at which you would escalate unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • Assess the workload hiring and promotion adds and what you will remove to make room.
03

Hiring and promotion: performance, standards and consistency

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What your team concludes from how you handle hiring and promotion

  • Name a single owner for each element of unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • Prepare the summary of hiring and promotion that senior management will read.
  • Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • State the outcome expected from hiring and promotion in a single sentence anyone can repeat.

Session 2Who answers for unconscious bias in hiring and promotion, and to whom

  • Compare the cost of unconscious bias in hiring and promotion with the cost of its absence.
  • Identify your successor for hiring and promotion and the gap they need to close.
  • Test whether the team can explain unconscious bias in hiring and promotion in their own words.
  • Agree the standard on hiring and promotion and confirm it applies to everyone.
04

Hiring and promotion: the conversations that decide the outcome

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The meeting that finally unblocks hiring and promotion

  • Define acceptance criteria for unconscious bias in hiring and promotion in advance.
  • Identify where judgement in hiring and promotion is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Write down the reasoning behind your position on unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • Decide what you will delegate on hiring and promotion and what you will not, and say why.

Session 2Holding the line on hiring and promotion when it costs you

  • Build the competence framework that supports unconscious bias in hiring and promotion.
  • Estimate the resource hiring and promotion requires to run as designed.
  • Name the person accountable for each part of unconscious bias in hiring and promotion, not the committee.
  • Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines hiring and promotion.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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