Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences Course
What will I learn?
Improve the teamwork and effectiveness of your firefighting team with our "Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences" course. Get a good understanding of bias for work, how it affects how choices are made, and how teams work together. Learn ways to make things more inclusive, reduce bias, and talk to each other well. Come up with plans you can use with team-building activities and training sessions. Check how well things are going with feedback and numbers to make sure your team does well in different situations. Join us to help your firefighting team work together better and be more inclusive.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Enhance the development of the practical skills listed below
Know bias for work: Spot and understand bias that affects decisions.
Promote making everyone feel welcome: Make a work environment where everyone feels included, no matter where they come from.
Develop plans to reduce bias: Create real plans to cut down on bias.
Improve how you talk to each other: Get better at talking so your team works well together.
Check if the plan is working: Use feedback to make the plan better and see how well it's doing.
Suggested overview
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before getting started, you can adjust the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to begin with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can include
You'll be able to create more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional growth. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.