Does implicit bias training really work?

By |2020-01-02T08:38:39-05:00October 25th, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: |

In the wake of increasing incidents involving police shootings of unarmed African American males, it seems logical that police forces across the country would benefit from training that addresses the impact of implicit bias amongst officers. But will that make a difference? Skeptics of implicit bias training raise valid concerns about its effectiveness, especially for police officers who are often placed in high-pressure situations in which they may be more likely than other professions to need to rely on quick judgments. The question discussed in the following article is whether or not training can be effective in helping to reduce or eliminate the negative effects that implicit biases can result in.

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Gender Bias Starts Early and Lasts a Lifetime

By |2019-10-10T09:30:54-04:00October 9th, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: |

Using acceptance speeches to further causes is not new. So, it wasn’t particularly surprising that actress Patricia Arquette used her time at the microphone at the Academy Awards last Sunday to implore us all to pay attention to equal rights for all women. Society’s opportunities for improvement, when it comes to the issue of equal rights in the workplace, are well documented. Stacks of studies outline issues including the glass ceiling, pay equality, and maternal wall bias, or discrimination that occurs against caregivers, and particularly working mothers.

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Breaking Through Bias to Build Inclusion

By |2019-09-25T14:50:11-04:00September 1st, 2019|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: |

Unconscious bias is a part of our evolutionary nature. However, it can have many negative effects when it leads to exclusionary behavior within organizations. The following article discusses why biases occur and reveals how we can break through them in order to promote and receive the benefits of more inclusive workplace cultures.

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Wise Women: Rethinking Our Sources of Inspiration

By |2018-02-02T08:53:13-05:00February 2nd, 2018|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: , |

For almost 20 years, Legacy Business Cultures has proudly sent our “Coffee and Keynote” inspirational quotes every weekday morning to thousands of online subscribers. Last year alone, we sent out over 2 million individual messages sharing wisdom of the ages on leadership, teamwork, personal effectiveness and respect to readers around the world. So I have to admit that I was caught completely off guard on morning when one of our subscribers sent us a rather pointed email message stating that she was very upset with the quotations and was considering unsubscribing from the service.

This Was Your Brain During the Election

By |2017-01-13T13:41:42-05:00November 23rd, 2016|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: , , |

As we begin to move on after the most bruising political campaign recent memory, it is a good time for a hard look at how our democratic process turned so ugly and disenfranchising to so many Americans. How did we get to a place where the polarization and acid-like negativity actually became news in its own right? As someone who studies human and workplace behavior and focuses on how to drive organizational change, it is interesting to note that this political season has been fueled, in part, by a number of phenomena that I see regularly in the workplace—every workplace, not just in the halls of Congress or in campaign headquarters.

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Legacy Business Cultures Wins Department of Justice Contract to Provide Implicit Bias Training

By |2017-01-13T13:41:43-05:00June 30th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |

Legacy Business Cultures announced today that it has been selected by the Department of Justice to develop and deploy implicit bias training for all of the agency’s 5,800 attorneys. Legacy’s efforts will be part of a much broader DOJ initiative to roll out training to employees as well as agents within the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and U.S. Marshals Service (USMS).

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How unconscious bias works and the effects it may be having on your organization

By |2017-01-13T13:41:44-05:00January 13th, 2016|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: , |

Each of us stores our own version of “truth” in our minds. This story of right and wrong, of past events and their presumed causes and effects (and their emotional impact on us), becomes the gold standard by which we anticipate how current events will unfold and affect us in the future. Helpful sometimes and burdensome in others, this is the realm of unconscious bias.

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#RaceTogether: More than just a slogan scrawled on a cup

By |2019-06-18T21:53:34-04:00March 24th, 2015|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: , |

By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard about Starbucks’ Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz wanting to start a discussion about race in America. He started by holding forums over the past three months in which more than 2,000 Starbucks partners (their term for employees) discussed racial issues in Oakland, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York and Chicago.

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Gender Bias Starts Early and Lasts a Lifetime

By |2017-01-13T13:41:52-05:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: , |

Society’s opportunities for improvement, when it comes to the issue of equal rights in the workplace, are well documented. Stacks of studies outline issues including the glass ceiling, pay equality, and maternal wall bias, or discrimination that occurs against caregivers, and particularly working mothers. Here are a few suggestions to start the “bias interruption” process.

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