Implicit Bias In Anti-Fraud Engagements
- Oct 22, 2024 8:00 a.m.
- Central Time (CT)
Online Virtual Seminar
Course Level
Overview
Overview
Delivered via
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Implicit Bias In Anti-Fraud Engagements
Description
Are you able to maintain an objective point of view when engaging stakeholders and conducting fraud investigations, audits and other anti-fraud engagements? If you answered in the affirmative, you have just made yourself even more susceptible to your own implicit biases — those subconscious views you hold about the world and everything in it.
In this seminar, you will learn how implicit biases can affect your behavior, decision-making, interpersonal communication skills and anti-fraud work.
This course will also explore methods to assist in identifying and recognizing implicit biases, while creating methods, policies and procedures to mitigate the associated negative effects.
Prerequisites
None
You Will Learn How To:
Identify and explore the factors that contribute to implicit bias.
Assess the effect of implicit bias on anti-fraud engagements.
Develop and apply methods to identify and counteract the negative effects of implicit bias.
CPE Information
This seminar provides ACFE ethics credit, which counts toward the ACFE’s annual ethics CPE requirement for CFEs. Learn more about the ethics CPE requirements for CFEs.
| CPE Credit: | 8 |
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| Advanced Preparation: | None |
| Delivery Method: | Group-Internet Based |
Credit by Field of Study
| Behavioral Ethics: | 8 |
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Registration & Fees
Registration Fee:
ACFE Members: $415
Non-Members: $515
Early Registration Deadline: September 23, 2024
Register by the Early Registration Deadline to SAVE USD 100!
Course Outline
Day 1
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8:00 – 9:40 a.m. Discovering Our Biases
How can we mitigate the effects of implicit bias when we don’t even recognize when it exists? In this session, participants will engage in an exercise that demonstrates how quickly bias arises in certain situations. Participants will analyze their behaviors by engaging in discussions and reviewing their words and behaviors. Participants will also learn how the brain operates, how we purposely and inadvertently send unconscious signals to others, and the dangers of the “us” vs. “them” dilemma.
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10:00 – 11:40 a.m. Where and How Biases Originate
While no one wants to admit that we are biased, being human doesn’t give us a choice. Scientific research has shown that the more objective we believe ourselves to be, the more likely bias is to creep in and lead us to flawed decision-making. In this session, participants will discuss their backgrounds and experiences to understand how they have come to view the world as they do, while also contrasting their views with others to better understand how and why people see the world through different perspectives. In addition, participants will assess the subconscious roles of power and authority as they relate to bias, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal relations.
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12:40 – 2:20 p.m. How Biases Affect Engagement, Community, and Investigations
In this session, participants will analyze case studies and video footage, breaking down the events that occurred and discussing how varying biases affected the investigators and analysts involved. Participants will also evaluate how errors in judgment and emotional hijackings can lead us to focusing on the wrong evidence and information, as well as how confirmation bias interferes with our ability to remain objective and, in the worst case, even facilitate false and inaccurate convictions.
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2:40 – 4:20 p.m. Best Practices to Mitigate the Effects of Implicit Bias
Learning how to mitigate the influences of our implicit biases will ensure that we remain as objective as possible when engaging with others, conducting investigations, and reporting findings. In this session, participants will learn how to develop mental triggers to activate self-assessment mechanisms, foster psychological safety with colleagues and community members, encourage devil’s advocate perspectives, and practice consequential reflection.
Presenter
Bret Hood, CFE - Speaker
Director
21st Century Learning & Consulting
Policies
Payment must be received by September 23, 2024 to receive early registration discount.
Event Cancellation Policy
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