Cognitive Bias
About this workshop
Cognitive biases subvert critical thinking by making us susceptible to misjudgment, faulty beliefs, and poor decision-making. Although without knowing, we are all guilty of being biased, there is a sound reason for scenario-based and case-study education and training to genuinely assist in awareness and understanding when you form specific biases and how this affects you, your environment, or the workplace.
Types of Biases
- Cognitive Bias
Cognitive Bias is the unconscious thinking errors that arise from problems related to memory, attention, and other mental mistakes. - Contextual Bias
Contextual Bias is the tendency for consideration to be influenced by background information. - Expectation Bias (EB)
Expectation Bias (EB) occurs when an individual's expectations about an outcome affect how they perceive or interpret the information presented to them. For example, when you have expectations and someone meets them, whether good or bad anchors confirms your decision, whether good or bad and one disregards any information that contradicts what you expected. - Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias happens when a person gives more weight to evidence that confirms their beliefs and undervalues evidence that could disprove it.
Understandably there is and continues to be much work to do before any bias can disappear entirely but recognising our biases and thinking conditioning and shifting them from our unconscious to our conscious, is indeed the first positive step in starting to address the unseen problem.
Although these biases are unconscious, there are small steps we can take to train our minds to adopt a new pattern of thinking and mitigate the effects of these biases.
Personal and professional life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice.
What You Will Learn
Key learnings from attendance at our Cognitive Bias Workshops will include:
- Understand what cognitive bias is and why it is vital to understand
- Recognising various types of biases – Cognitive bias, Context bias, Expectation bias, Confirmation bias
- Understanding why ignoring cognitive biases can distort our decisions
- How do we manage real or perceived influences
- How do we sensibly manage these effects and show that we managed the context that we are exposed to
- Use logical reasoning
Skills You Will Gain
- Improve critical thinking
- Improve the quality of thinking and decision-making
- Human judgment and decision-making
- Self-awareness
Course Duration
The course is delivered over a 1x7hr full day face to face training workshop or 2 x 3.5hr ½ day workshops. There will be a short quiz at the end of the workshop.
Certificate
Each student that attends the workshop will receive a personalised Certificate of Attendance
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