A Simple Exercise to Help You Check Your Biases
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Studies consistently show that racially diverse teams outperform their competitors in terms of profitability, and corporations with women comprising more than a quarter of their executive committees realize 10 times higher profit margin than those with no female board members. While the future of DE
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- 🌍 **Diversity Drives Profitability**: Racially diverse teams and companies with women in leadership roles significantly outperform their competitors in profitability.
- 🧠 **Understanding Bias**: Biases, both conscious and unconscious, are learned habits that distort perception and decision-making, impacting workplace dynamics.
- 💡 **PRISM Framework**: A set of five science-backed tools (Mindfulness, Stereotype Replacement, Individuation, Prosocial Behaviors, Perspective-Taking) can help teams unlearn unconscious biases.
- 🧘 **Mindfulness Matters**: Practicing mindfulness helps individuals recognize and label stereotypes, fostering awareness and reducing bias.
- 🤝 **Empathy and Compassion**: Engaging in perspective-taking and prosocial behaviors promotes positive emotional states, counteracting negative biases and enhancing team collaboration.
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- Studies consistently show that racially diverse teams outperform their competitors in terms of profitability, and corporations with women comprising more than a quarter of their executive committees realize 10 times higher profit margin than those with no female board members.
- While the future of DEI at large is uncertain, managers as individuals still need to be equipped to address and mitigate conflicts in their workplaces, especially if they supervise teams with diverse views and identities, and manage up to meet business objectives. This is where managers can utilize neuroscience to tackle the root cause of most DEI ...
- We weren’t born believing that men are better at math than women or that white people are better leaders than people of color. Rather, these stereotypes like all biases are learned habits that take two forms: conscious biases which are learned false beliefs and unconscious biases which are learned habits of thoughts. Both forms distort how humans...
- Neuropsychologist Donald Hebb named this process: “neurons that fire together wire together.”
- According to one study by SHRM, racial bias alone costs American businesses up to $54 billion annually and lost productivity due to such biases cost an additional $59 billion annually.
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Eliane
Apesar do futuro incerto das iniciativas DEI (diversidade, equidade e inclusão), os gerentes ainda precisam lidar com o preconceito, a causa raiz da maioria dos desafios de DEI. O autor apresenta o PRISM, um conjunto de cinco ferramentas apoiadas pela ciência, projetadas para ajudar gerentes e equipes a desaprender preconceitos inconscientes (vies...
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