YouMeWe make your contribution count for you • me • we Suzanne F. Stevens

Questions to consider to expose an unconscious bias when you are looking for a job, hiring a new employee, seeking to collaborate with another organization, or consciously contributing to a company’s cause.
In this episode…Consider how to make your contribution count:
How do you reward performance?
What are your hiring practices?
How did your organization go about selecting causes?

Micro-questions, effective bias buster on the road to equality.
In this week’s episode …consider how to make your contribution count:
How can I get to the heart of a bias?
What can I do to bust a bias?
How can equality be promoted in the workplace?

Micro-behaviours are small messages conveyed each day through things like your body language, the tone of your voice, and your proximity to a person. When micro-behaviours persist over time, you may be sending a clear message to a colleague, client, or collaborator that will stifle rapport, or worse sabotage the relationship entirely.
In this week’s episode consider:
What biases am I revealing through micro-behaviours?
What are the consequences of revealing my biases to colleagues?
What can I do to minimize their impact?

Here is the thing about labeling people, it can hold us back, as labels are often attached to history, expectations, experiences, and possibly a bias.
In this episode…Consider how to make your contribution count:
Why do I use labels to define someone?
What would happen if society removed labels?
How could I be more inclusive if I eliminating labels?

“Equality will exist when we no longer feel the need to use an adjective in front of a noun.”
How to turn unconscious bias into conscious communications and break the cycle.

What is your name? Do you ever think you have been discriminated against because of it? Perhaps you didn’t receive a job interview because of it. Or you did receive a job interview because of its sweet sound to the job recruiter. How would you ever know if a recruiter is name bias?