Women’s Leadership Edge provides resources and practical evidence-based tools for women, sponsors, mentors, professional development directors and organizational leaders to enable your organization to effectively retain, support and advance women from within.
The following Women’s Leadership Edge webinars can be viewed upon request. If you are interested in an individual or group viewing, please contact us.
Interrupting Bias in Performance Evaluations (1-hour webinar)
Studies show that subtle gender and racial biases often creep into performance evaluations. Learn how to design and fill out performance evaluations to avoid this.
This and other forms of bias often play out unchecked in performance evaluations. This webinar will provide:
- Tips for managers re how to interrupt bias in the performance evaluation process and correct patterns of systemic bias in reviews;
- Information on how to design and carry out performance evaluations processes to interrupt bias at the organizational level; and
- Training for anyone who fills out performance evaluations for others on how to eliminate the influence of biases when evaluating others.
This webinar examines how various forms of bias impact the performance review process, including gender and race bias, along with other factors.
Presenter: Professor Joan C. Williams
Suggested Audience:
- Anyone who fills out performance evaluations for others – employees at all levels, from junior employees completing 360 degree evaluations to senior managers, and anyone in between who evaluates others;
- Anyone who designs or oversees performance evaluations, influences how reviews are conducted, or is involved in the performance review process;
- HR and D&I professionals; and
- Change leaders.
How Gender Impacts Negotiations & What We Should All Do About It (1-hour webinar)
Women face unique obstacles at the negotiating table. Both male and female counterparts hold expectations that make it difficult for women to negotiate value and build relationships. This data-driven webinar shares recent research on how women can be effective despite the distinctive challenges we face at the negotiating table.
Learn how to:
- Recognize and anticipate the biases that work against women in negotiations;
- Negotiate effectively despite those biases; and
- Change workplace systems that have a disproportionate impact on female negotiators.
Presenter: Emily Epstein
Suggested Audience: Women who want to negotiate more effectively, men who want to support their female colleagues and managers of either gender who want to provide a level playing field for everyone
Bias Interrupters – Strategies for Male Allies (1-hour webinar)
The webinar provides strategies any manager or advocate for women can use to disrupt workplace bias, so it’s directly relevant to men and women alike. Women who manage others or who are interested in advocating for greater gender equity are especially encouraged to attend.
This webinar is for male allies – leaders, managers and individual contributors who want to interrupt implicit bias and help create a level playing field for women and diverse professionals. Learn about an innovative new approach – Bias Interrupters – that starts from the extensive social science on implicit bias and provides simple, low-risk ways to interrupt the kinds of bias that commonly affect everyday workplace interactions. The webinar will also introduce a new model of organizational change, “Metrics-Driven Bias Interrupters.”
This webinar offers strategies to help male allies:
- Recognize implicit bias when it occurs;
- Pinpoint where bias often plays out in everyday situations;
- Identify low-key ways individuals can interrupt bias without spending too much political capital; and
- Identify tweaks to existing organizational systems (e.g., hiring, performance evaluations, assignments) designed to interrupt bias.
Presenter: Professor Joan C. Williams
Suggested Audience: Managers, leaders and individual contributors
