Empathy & Compassion

Empathy – A Critical Element Of An Engaged Workplace

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Have you taken the time to assess the level of empathy in your organization? Perhaps you are struggling to understand exactly what it means to be empathetic, or maybe you assume empathy is for the weak?

 

All the vagueness or misconceptions surrounding the importance of empathy should be clarified in order to truly see how your organization can benefit.

In this 30 minute Webcast Replay you will learn:

  • What empathy is and what it isn’t
  • A 5 point scale for assessing your own empathy level
  • What happens when managers lack empathy
  • Why this is an issue for organizations right now

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Empathy is fundamentally, from a moral stand point, a bad thing. It makes the world worse” — Paul Bloom Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science, Yale University

The above is an excerpt from a short preview animated by the Atlantic of Paul Bloom’s stance against empathy in his up-coming book on the subject

I found the short to be disheartening in its discarding of empathy as an essential part of life — in our relationships, our interactions and our ability to contribute to our society, culture and community.

 

Bloom understands empathy as “putting oneself in the shoes of another”, consequently increasing the likelihood of “helping or caring for that person”. Why does he think this is a bad thing? Bloom claims that it “blinds us to the long term consequences of our actions”; the consequences being that the empathy driven concern for people shadows the engagement of greater issues: