From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
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Dial up the compassion
From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
Dial up the compassion
- Did you know compassion is contagious, and delivers a huge range of benefits, from physical health improvements to creativity, productivity, and wellbeing? I'm going to walk you through designing your compassion style so you can unlock the uniquely human potential from your colleagues. Start by choosing which of these traits most closely resonates with you. They're not all strictly compassion components, but they are all linked in various ways: active listening, acts of service, sympathy, empathy, encouragement and positive reinforcement, problem solving support, expressing gratitude, coaching. Next, work out if there are any from that list that you are weaker on, and that you may benefit from improving. Have you ever received feedback that you are not so good at one of the things? Be honest with yourself. Most people are not amazing at everything on this list. For example, I'm not so strong on sympathy. In fact, I'm really bad at it. I sound insincere trying to express it verbally,…
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