Cognitive Biases Episodes

Send us a text Is your clinic still struggling with the post-pandemic workforce transformation? Discover how to turn these challenges into opportunities by understanding the concept of psychological safety and its profound impact on new hires and annual performance reviews. Join Julie South, Certified DISC Trainer and Resilience Coach, as she introduces the juniority benefit, the swoosh pattern of psychological safety levels over time, and the peak-end rule cognitive bias. This epi...

Send us a text The last two episodes have covered unconscious bias when interviewing with the goal of not only shedding the light on unconscious bias at your clinic, but also to help you get a more diverse team… because, as we all know, the more diverse the opinions and experience you have in a team, the stronger that team is. If you’re a vet or nurse looking to make your next move, YOUR unconscious bias still exists and applies in exactly the same way as it does from the clinic’s hiring pers...

Send us a text Continuing on from last week's 1-5 of Unconscious Biases: 6. Overconfidence bias Plays out when the recruiter is soooo confident in their own abilities to either pick a good candidate, or to eliminate the supposed bad ones, that they allow confirmation bias to creep in. 7. Similarity attraction bias Sometimes, the similarity attraction bias plays out and replicas of people are hired – because of likeness / similarity – but they incompetent! 8. Illusory correlation The il...

Send us a text One of the “happening things” in the recruitment world in 2022 was the spotlight being shone on diversity. I've identified 16 different unconscious biases we all have when it comes to interviewing – and how these can play out during the recruitment process and what you can do to mitigate these. The end result of all of them is the same: you may end up discounting and/or overlooking the best person for your clinic’s vacancy. Diversity training Diversity training is one way...