Compassion Benefits Everyone Around You
Compassion isn’t just a nice thing to spread as a leader. Research shows that it makes professionals more happy, reduces anxiety and depression, it boosts health and longevity, uplifts the people around you. It even makes us more attractive. Mindfulness, empathy and compassion provides the foundation to be a stronger, happier and more connected leader.
You Can Grow Compassion Skills
According to science, compassion is a skill that can be improved. We can actually develop the habit of wanting to better understand other people's feelings and perspectives - and then actively helping them to achieve their own goals and ambitions.
Five Things to Know:
1. It's about alignment. Mindful leaders align people around a shared mission and values with passion, compassion and empathy and empower them to lead while staying involved to drive superior outcomes.
2. Connect more deeply. Leading with mindfulness, selflessness and compassion makes you more human and less "leader."
3. Put an end to politics. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." -
Groucho Marx
4. Put the focus on your team. As Jack Welch, the famous CEO of GE said, "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
5. Be intentional. As a leader, every action has a consequence. Make sure it is the one you intend.
What's the Best Place to Start?
Our "Build Emotional Intelligence" training collection has 23 mini-courses, 8 trainers and 200+ sessions, articles and exercises to help you build empathy, compassion and other EQ skills.
Try the Leading with Compassion and Empathy and Compassion mini-courses to learn practices to lead while relating to others more skillfully.
Take 5-minutes a day to cultivate the skills of empathy and compassion!
