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Bias-Aware, High-Performance Leadership.
Make fair, evidence-based people decisions and build teams that perform at their best.
One-time purchase · 12 months of access · about 4 hours including exercises and the capstone · certificate of completion
What you’ll be able to do.
For CEOs, executives, people leaders and HR leaders who hire, develop, evaluate and promote people.
- Spot where bias enters hiring, assignments, reviews, promotion and pay, and close those openings.
- Run job-related, structured hiring and promotion processes that find the strongest people.
- Set clear expectations and give specific, even-handed feedback that raises everyone’s performance.
- Build psychological safety and high standards together, and handle underperformance fairly.
- Measure fairness and performance outcomes, and use AI and data in people decisions responsibly.
Curriculum.
5 modules, 15 lessons, 5 applied exercises, 5 knowledge checks and a faculty-reviewed capstone.
Module 1. Bias is a performance problem
Why fair decisions and high performance are the same discipline, and where bias enters.
- Why fairness and performance are one discipline (free preview)
- Where bias enters people decisions
- The leader’s operating standard · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 2. Hiring and promotion on evidence
Define the job, assess it consistently, and make potential visible to everyone.
- Define the job before you meet the candidates
- Structured interviews and work samples
- Promotion and succession without the usual blind spots · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 3. Performance management that lifts everyone
Clear expectations, specific feedback and fair reviews.
- Clear expectations are the first lever
- Feedback and coaching that is specific and even-handed
- Fair performance reviews and calibration · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 4. Leading high-performance, inclusive teams
Psychological safety with high standards, inclusive decisions, and fair accountability.
- Psychological safety and high standards together
- Inclusive meetings and better decisions
- Accountability and handling underperformance fairly · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 5. Measuring and sustaining fair, high performance
Track the right outcomes, use AI responsibly, and build a 90-day plan.
- Measuring fairness and performance outcomes
- AI and data in people decisions
- Your 90-day bias-aware leadership plan · exercise
- Knowledge check
Capstone
Apply the course to your own organization in a written plan, reviewed by the NWTS Academy faculty against a published rubric.
How it’s taught.
Lessons are built on The NWTS Method™ and the operating experience behind DecisionIQ, and are written with AI assistance. Exercises run on the same transparent calculation engine as DecisionIQ. The NWTS Academy faculty answers your questions and reviews your exercises and capstone in writing, with AI assistance, usually within a few hours; anything that needs a person goes to Nikita R. Steals.
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