Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop session with a high performing leadership team in the resources industry. The session was focused on inclusion, unconscious bias and increasing effectiveness. In my session design, my own bias, was that I would receive quite some resistance from the group as they would not see the value in doing this work and they were already performing well.


As it turned out, the group was quite culturally diverse which I had not anticipated. So from the outset there was participation in the room and the team were highly engaged. Some wonderful candour and sharing occurred in the session. The cultural diversity in the group certainly assisted and brought great richness and perspectives to the conversation.


One very surprising perspective that was shared by a number of the participants for whom English was not their first language was the ‘trust’ bias they placed on those who spoke English well, in other words a higher level of trust for fluent speakers of English. When I highlighted that this was a bias against themselves…they were quite taken back. It was a useful reminder that we need to aware of the biases that may be sabotaging ourselves!

 

 

 

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