4 Ways You Can Exercise EMPATHETIC Leadership

Are you confident about your empathetic skills? Why is it so critical in our personal and professional life? Well, empathetic leadership means having a willingness to learn and let go of our preconceived notions, so we can become better employees, managers, leaders, and persons as a whole.

In today’s episode, I share some tips to help you get started in developing or improving your empathetic skills.

Empathy is the ability to acknowledge and understand another person's feelings. It’s essential to have this skillset because it allows you to share experiences with the people around you and not be insensitive.

With the world becoming a more complex place to be in, it becomes more critical for us to have empathetic skills and have others feel it. Empathetic leadership requires us to be open and curious about the world and have the willingness to replace our early biases.

One way of showing empathy is becoming more present. This means tuning in and connecting with the next person’s emotional status. And this is possible even WITHOUT getting too involved and knowing the root cause of a person’s feelings.

Watch until the end to know more about developing your empathetic skills, how you can exercise empathetic leadership, and make genuine connections with the people around you.