When I came to Dev Bootcamp, I wanted to bring what I’d discovered about training developers in soft skills to the company’s existing “whole-person” approach to learning. Together, we worked to answer the following questions: How do you teach empathy? How do you teach people to understand and share the feelings of somebody else?
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