empathy in leadership – theBIGpicture Camille

“What do you do when you get mad?”

October 10, 2021 is World Mental Health Day. Anxiety is often overlooked as a disorder that requires professional intervention.
The pandemic and the continuing uncertainties of the future present ideal conditions for anxiety to evolve in ways that adversely impact employees’ mental health and their ability to perform.
Leaders must champion mental health and speak openly about the need to take care of employees’ mental health.

Make workplace empathy meaningful: Provide employee benefits that help women advance their careers.

Empathy is meaningful when employees are listened to, when they feel that they are heard and when leadership commits to implementing solutions that enable them to thrive, prosper and successfully manage personal and professional responsibilities. The current pandemic provides employers with an outstanding opportunity to implement solution-focused employee benefits, particularly those which impact women and their professional advancement. There are five areas of action in which leaders can make empathy meaningful: 1. Invest in communication best practices; 2. Prioritize and implement disability risk mitigation measures; 3. Critically examine current benefits and the corporate culture; 4. Empower women to manage their careers & continue to support their professional advancement; and 5. Leadership must commit to demonstrate empathy for employees

Balancing empathy within professional boundaries

A few years ago, I respected the request of a team member to go home at the drop of a cat. Yes, you read it correctly, at the drop of a cat. A fifty-something male member of my team stood teary-eyed in front of me and asked if he could go home to comfort hisContinue reading “Balancing empathy within professional boundaries”