The power of empathy in the workplace (staff edition)
Ask anyone, when I was a teenager I was the most empathetic person you would ever meet! To the point where it hurt me when others were hurt and I felt joy from others' joy. At one point in my life someone told me being empathetic was for those people that were too weak to tell the hard truth, those people who were push-overs, those people who let others dictate their lives. I was foolish and I believed them... So I started guarding myself against my own empathy for others. Anytime I thought about how they must feel I tuned it out because I thought I could fight the "weakness". Let me tell you, that was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made on both a business and a personal level. An ability to be empathetic is NOT a weakness. It is one of the most widely underestimated super-powers we humans possess! Merriam-Webster defines empathy as "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings of anot...