InPower Update: Cracking the Code: 🆘 Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Excerpt from InPower Coaching Newsletter - Sent November 2, 2023

It doesn't matter who you are or how you present, we all have unconscious biases working for us, against us and in us. The latest research shows how insidious this can be. Here are some InPower strategies for reducing the ways implicit bias can hold you back. ~ Dana Theus

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The Game is Rigged: Win Anyway

When it comes to unconscious bias, the bad news is that the game is rigged–against women, people of color, introverts and others that don’t fit a certain “success” stereotype that is often male, white and extroverted. But the good news is, it’s not really a game so there are no rules you can’t modify and break, if necessary.

Recent research has identified thirty individual biases that work together to disadvantage women in the workplace. Myriad other research shows that managers reliably exhibit biases based on gender, race, education, ability and sexual orientation, to name just a few. And there is also evidence that bias negatively affects men in their careers, as well.

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