In this program you'll gain a better and fuller understanding of Unconscious Bias, its impact in the workplace and beyond. You will learn cognitive and behavioural strategies that will allow you to harness the power of Unconscious Bias to elevate the impact of your leadership.
2 days
By its very definition, Unconscious Bias has an unnoticed and pervasive impact on our thinking and behaviour. In organisations, Unconscious Bias affects important organisational processes, such as recruitment and selection, performance management, and diversity and inclusion.
Leadership can be subject to biased perceptions, which impacts the ability of leaders to achieve the desired organisational outcomes. Hence, understanding and managing Unconscious Bias is an important task of effective leadership. This program develops your knowledge of Unconscious Bias and focused on developing the positive impacts of addressing it.
The program is recommended for executive managers, team leaders, and professional staff, who are interested in gaining a better understanding of Unconscious Bias and its impact on work, leadership and organisations.
Dr Darja Kragt
Dr Darja Kragt is a Lecturer in Work Psychology at the University of Western Australia. She is also a leadership consultant, program facilitator, speaker and author. Darja’s research is focused on the development of leadership skills and competencies, particularly, how identity and implicit beliefs shape leadership behaviour and effectiveness.
Darja is passionate about helping individuals and organisations to develop more effective and inclusive leadership. Her unique strengths as a leadership development professional are superb understanding of research evidence and ability to translate these insights into actionable practices.
Darja has designed and facilitated numerous leadership development workshops and programs for professionals, MBAs and executives in Australia and Europe.
She has completed a doctoral degree in Leadership Development at UWA Business School and two Master degrees in International Management and Business Research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her research has been published in highly ranked, peer-reviewed journals.
Scenario Planning and Strategic Foresight is a highly experiential five-day program focusing on the skills of effective scenario planning.
Mandatory sustainability, or ESG, reporting is a growing global and Australian trend. While some organisations have been engaging in sustainability reporting for decades, others are now beginning their journey. This program provides a practical and holistic perspective on how to begin or improve your sustainability reporting processes.
This distinctive program offers you insights into how negotiations work in practice and – through personal coaching – uncover ways to enhance your own negotiating skills. The focus of the program throughout is on helping you to identify what you can do differently to improve your skill at work-related negotiations.
Based on extensive and rigorous research in leadership development, this transformational program helps you discover what makes you a leader. You'll focus on your core beliefs about leadership, your capability as a leader and how to translate these into deeper, stronger and more influential relationships with other people.
*Executive Education program pricing includes GST