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Podcast Episode 74 — 5 Steps To Develop Leadership Empathy

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Hello, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right Podcast, Episode 74: 5 Steps To Develop Leadership Empathy!

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Hi friends! Over the last little while, I have had several requests to talk about empathy in leadership and how one can develop it. So, in this episode I want to  talk about leadership empathy. We’re going to define what leadership empathy is, the difference between empathy and sympathy, and five steps you can take today to develop leadership empathy.

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What is leadership empathy?

Let’s start with a few dictionary definitions of empathy:

  • The Google dictionary explains that it is “The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.”
  • Merriam-Webster says it is, “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.”
  • And finally, Wikipedia defines empathy as, “the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person’s frame of reference, meaning the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.”

There’s a lot to each of those definitions, but what I takeaway is that when you have empathy, you feel what others are feeling as if it is happening to you. You understand and relate to as if you were in their shoes. [Read more…] about Podcast Episode 74 — 5 Steps To Develop Leadership Empathy

How To Develop Leadership Empathy

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Have you ever wanted to obtain empathy? People have asked me on multiple occasions, “How can I obtain leadership empathy?” This is a great question, so let’s talk about leadership empathy.

How To Develop Leadership Empathy
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What is Leadership Empathy?

Before developing leadership empathy, one must understand what it means to have empathy. Here’s a few dictionary definitions of empathy:

  • The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. (Google)
  • the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; (Merriam-Webster)
  • Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. (Wikipedia)

When you have empathy, you can understand, relate to, and feel what others are feeling as if you were in their shoes.

How Does Empathy Relate to Leadership Empathy?

In leadership, you lead others. Those you lead have many things going on in their lives. They go through challenges, trials, and other difficulties.

When one has leadership empathy, they feel for those they lead. They pay close attention to the feelings and thoughts of those they lead. As they are in-tune with others, they change their behavior to help those they lead in the best way for them. [Read more…] about How To Develop Leadership Empathy

Podcast Episode #10 – Have You Experienced the Benefits of Gratitude?

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Hello and welcome to the Leadership Done Right podcast, Episode 10 — Have You Experienced the Benefits of Gratitude?

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Have you ever experienced the joy of gratitude? I would like to start this episode by relating the story of Corrie Ten Boom. She was a prisoner in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. She was subjected to very harsh circumstances and conditions while she was in the camp. khouse.org relates the story as follows.

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Thank You For The Fleas

In her book The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time she discovered that God was working even in the most horrific circumstances.

Corrie and her sister Betsie had been imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding Jews behind the wall of their Holland home, and Nazi prison conditions pretty well unbearable. [Read more…] about Podcast Episode #10 – Have You Experienced the Benefits of Gratitude?