{"id":188405,"date":"2023-11-01T03:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T03:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=188405"},"modified":"2023-11-01T03:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T03:32:04","slug":"diversity-trainer-says-stop-wasting-money-on-diversity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/diversity-trainer-says-stop-wasting-money-on-diversity-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity trainer says stop wasting money on diversity training"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Diversity trainer for banks hits out at British companies for wasting money&#8230; on diversity training<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mr Mosaku said unconscious bias training could not overwrite internal biases\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British companies are &#8216;wasting&#8217; millions on diversity training, according to the founder of an inclusion consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>Buki Mosaku, founder of DiverseCity Think Tank, claimed that many companies were sinking money into &#8216;well intentioned but fundamentally flawed&#8217; strategies around equality, diversity and inclusion, and unconscious bias training.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that programmes designed to eradicate racial bias were &#8216;futile&#8217; as, in his view, humans were hardwired to be biased, citing a body of neuroscientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mosaku suggested that schemes aimed at teaching white staff to check their privilege were &#8216;doomed to failure&#8217; &#8211; and urged leaders to consider bias &#8216;multi-directional&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only effective way of dealing with sensed racial bias is to call it out then and there, asking the non-confrontational question &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand?&#8217; to get to the bottom of the perceived prejudice,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mosaku&#8217;s company offers services to top firms including JP Morgan, Sky TV and Aon, as reported in The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/01\/77250939-12695849-image-a-24_1698803542754.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only effective way of dealing with sensed racial bias is to call it out then and there, asking the non-confrontational question &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand?&#8217; to get to the bottom of the perceived prejudice,&#8217; Mr Mosaku said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As employers look for ways to make their workplaces more fair and just, unconscious bias training has emerged as a popular way of teaching staff to recognise their latent prejudices.<\/p>\n<p>However, not at all are convinced it fulfils its purpose. A 2019 meta-analysis of 490 studies involving some 80,000 people found UB training did not change behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Another review of more than 700 companies revealed that after undergoing UBT, Black employees could end up less likely to progress in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mosaku echoed the sentiment, warning that schemes had &#8216;at best made extremely slow progress and, more honestly, got us nowhere and made things worse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the government also\u00a0announced plans to phase out unconscious bias training in the civil service after concluding &#8216;there is currently no evidence that this training changes behaviour in the long term or improves workplace equality in terms of representation of women, ethnic minorities or other minority groups\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u00a0also states that there is &#8217;emerging evidence of unintended negative consequences&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/01\/77250923-12695849-Mr_Mosaku_is_the_founder_of_DiverseCity_Think_Tank_and_the_autho-a-26_1698803718455.jpg\" height=\"519\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Mr Mosaku is the founder of DiverseCity Think Tank and the author of &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Understand: Navigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A statement read: &#8216;This government is committed to levelling up opportunity for everyone, no matter what their background. We are also determined to eliminate discrimination in the workplace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To meet those ambitions, we must ensure that policy and advice on equality is evidence-based, and is delivered in a way that means we can respond quickly to new insights.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12695849\/Diversity-trainer-banks-hits-British-companies-wasting-money-diversity-training.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity trainer for banks hits out at British companies for wasting money&#8230; on diversity training Mr Mosaku said unconscious bias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diversity trainer says stop wasting money on diversity training - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/diversity-trainer-says-stop-wasting-money-on-diversity-training\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diversity trainer says stop wasting money on diversity training - News Need News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Diversity trainer for banks hits out at British companies for wasting money&#8230; 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