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Cognitive Biases are normal.
Accept, Label and Mitigate.

Neurodiversity and biases awareness are some of the hottest organisational effectiveness and leadership topics at the moment.

 

Biases are an inherent part of our brain functionality; and they are not necessarily bad, when we understand their impact on our behaviours and we are able to make behaviour choices which take others perspectives (understand others’ biases) into account.

 

Here is an interesting short article about Accepting, Labelling and Mitigating the negative effects of our biases and how we can learn to become aware of our unconscious biases.

 

https://neuroleadership.com/your-brain-at-work/unconscious-bias-in-brain#:~:text=Your%20brain%20on%20bias,had%20with%20a%20neighbor’s%20dog.

More on cognitive biases, their sources and how to become aware of their impact in our decision making process to follow!