2

Keep an open mind

How to minimise your potential for bias and bring diverse thinking to performance challenges

  • Real world example: An illusionist influences people’s choice

  • Toolkit: How to minimise bias when decision making

  • Checklist: How diverse is your team?

This chapter invites you to think about yourself in relation to some wider factors that impact your performance, and hence that of your team.

The factors are:

  • Minimising unconscious bias in yourself and others

  • The need for diversity of thought and experience.

Addressing these factors will help you grow and develop, enriching your work life and giving you more confidence to enjoy your role as a manager.

Unconscious bias

We act or make decisions with unconscious bias when we ...

Get The Performance Management Playbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.