SES Unconscious Bias - Workshops

This four-part workshop series, consisting of two themes, offers SES leaders a deep dive into unconscious bias for organisational change. Supported by follow-up workshops, SES leaders can share personal reflections and action plans. The two themes are:

Addressing unconscious bias through authentic leadership and diversity and inclusion advocacy
Changing mindsets to improve the employment experience of First Nations APS employees

Through exercises and self-reflection, participants will explore unconscious bias and cognitive dissonance and their impacts, understand how authentic leadership reduces bias, and create psychologically, psychosocially, and culturally safe workplaces. The aim is to apply an integrated framework to improve the employment experience of First Nations APS employees and lead organisational change for a bias-free APS workplace.

This learning experience has been provided by the National Indigenous Australians Agency

Participant benefits

explain what unconscious bias and cognitive dissonance are and how they impact us and those we lead.
explain how the characteristics of authentic leadership reduce unconscious bias and know how to apply this style of leadership to reduce bias and create psychologically, psychosocially, and culturally safe workplaces.
identify the implications of unconscious bias for First Nations employment and the APS and take action to mitigate these impacts.
apply an integrated framework for reducing unconscious bias in your workplaces, with a particular focus on improving the employment experience of First Nations APS employees.
identify actions you can take as authentic leaders. to increase your organisational impact as a diversity and inclusion advocate.
Develop an evolving action plan to account for your knowledge and capability growth as advocates for change.

Suitable for

SES Band 1 - 3

Category and User level

This learning experience aligns with APS People (Diversity and Inclusion) Craft at the Lead level.

Considerations

This is currently being run as a Pilot. By completing the evaluation survey, your feedback will contribute to the continuous improvement of our learning initiatives

Course has four scheduled workshops - it is ideal to complete all workshops with the same cohort.

Workshops are scheduled over 4 consecutive months, with one workshop per month.

Workshop 1A: Addressing unconscious bias through authentic leadership, and diversity and inclusion advocacy
Workshop 1B: Check in and reflection – addressing unconscious bias through authentic leadership, and diversity and inclusion advocacy
Workshop 2A: Changing mindsets to improve the employment experience of First Nations APS employees
Workshop 2B: Check in and reflection – changing mindsets to improve the employment experience of First Nations APS employees