Developing your empathy can help you transform unconscious bias, foster diversity and inclusion and is critical to your leadership success.
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Great leaders connect with employees on an individual level and inspire in them a sense of purpose and value. And they need empathy to do it.
A small improvement in the charismatic soft skills of managers could make a huge difference to employees’ engagement, motivation and efficiency. These changes, in turn, would lead to improvements in productivity, profitability and growth.
The solution is so simple that we miss it all the time: Make sure that your training tends to the soft stuff.
Empathy: We want leaders to have it, employees to behave with it and everyone to display it when interacting in groups. Sadly, it is not innate.
Training is vital to achieving strategic and tying training to the organization’s goals makes it more relevant and valuable.
In the field of corporate training, we already use e-learning and other blended learning tools, but in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, how can corporate training maintain its relevance? How can organizations adapt to the ever-changing L&D landscape?
Organizations have tried all types of approaches to fill the soft skills gap. They’ve gone on hiring sprees, brought in consultants and even administered lengthy tests to candidates before hiring — but to little avail, as those gaps remain.
Learning professionals are now taking a more strategic and proactive role in planning and developing training that’s aligned with business goals and, therefore, improves organizational performance.