Charlotte is a director of technology at a high-profile Silicon Valley company. She recently heard that two of her top-performing managers had decided to leave. Their reason was simple. The managers ...

Build more empathy muscle: Become an empathy engineer. Our brains are complex, but when it comes to how we perceive our surroundings and interact with others, a couple of key areas come into play: the ...

Empathy, once taken for granted as a virtue, is increasingly viewed through a divided lens. It is questioned, politicized, and sometimes dismissed as a weakness. Yet research, history, and personal ...

Over-empathy occurs when a leader absorbs their team members’ emotions, experiences and performance. They cease knowing where ...

Thinking about other people's emotions vs. actually feeling them Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS We generally think of empathy as the capacity to imagine ourselves in another person's shoes.

In short, the vast majority of things we call empathy do not cause burnout, they actually help protect against it. So for ...

Lack of empathy can strain relationships and create significant misunderstandings. Empathy is a key component of emotional intelligence, allowing us to connect with others on a deeper level.

When Jane Fonda recently spoke out against the dismissal of empathy as "weak" or "woke," something clicked. We've all heard it—the eye-rolling at emotional intelligence, the scoffing at connection as ...

Holiday gatherings can come with the invisible stress of potential arguments and conflict. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Tapping into empathy skills can help prepare you to face conflict head-on ...

Note: Various colleagues are filling in while First Things First President and CEO Lauren Hall is on maternity leave. The following was written by Tamara Slocum and published at firstthings.org in ...