ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Empathy at Work: Developing Skills to Understand Other People

By Mind Tools Content Team

Understanding other people's emotions is a key skill in the workplace. It can enable us to resolve conflicts, to build more productive teams, and to improve our relationships with co-workers, clients and customers.

Read on www.mindtools.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Assessment: Are You a Compassionate Leader?

Compassion has become increasingly recognized as a foundational aspect of leadership.

Article
Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Jason Beck
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How Mindfulness Makes You a Better Leader

Leaders who want to keep an edge at work should hone these three soft skills, says Jacqueline Carter, author of The Mind of the Leader.

Article
Jacqueline Carter and James Gimian
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Are You Addicted to Doing?

When work life is overwhelming, we can get stuck in a loop of "busyness"—keeping the mind occupied with tasks to avoid work, which increases our stress levels. Explore these mindfulness tips to slow down so you can get more done.

Article
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The 3 Qualities of a Successful Leader

Based on extensive research, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter reveal the three qualities present in the minds of great leaders.

Article
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Belonging at Work Is Essential—Here Are 4 Ways to Foster It

When we feel like we belong, we experience meaning, life satisfaction, physical health and psychological stability. When we feel excluded, physical pain and a wide range of psychological ailments result.

Article
Rebecca Fraser-Thill
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Value of Belonging at Work

Social belonging is a fundamental human need, hardwired into our DNA. And yet, 40% of people say that they feel isolated at work, and the result has been lower organizational commitment and engagement.

Article
Evan W. Carr, Andrew Reece, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, and Alexi Robichaux
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Our Relationships Are the Mirrors to Our Inner Process

If we learn to see our relationships as the wonderfully accurate mirrors they are, revealing to us where we need to go with our own inner process, we can see much about ourselves that we would otherwise have a great deal of difficulty learning.

Article
Shakti Gawain
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Life Is Always Trying to Teach Us Exactly What We Need to Learn

Everything in our lives reflects where we are in the process of developing integration and balance.

Article
Shakti Gawain
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

31 Quotes to Remind Us of the Importance of Integrity

In a world of fake news and alternative facts, here are 31 reminders of why integrity is key to leadership.

Article
Gordon Tredgold
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Shefali Tsabary on Conscious Relationships

An interview with Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, international keynote speaker and bestselling author of The Conscious Parent, Out of Control and her latest, The Awakened Family.

Article
Sandra Yeyati
2021
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Empathy