How an empathic culture gets built
Workplace Culture is built in everyday moments and tested during the difficult moments. Difficult moments test us at work too and can be determining factors on how we are perceived at doing our jobs. If your job is a field goal kicker and you miss a game winning field goal during playoffs, people are going to judge. Difficult moments also challenge our workplace culture. Culture is tested when someone messes…
Pushed off the entrepreneurial cliff
Angela Nino found her dream job in the midst of a toxic work environment, was pushed off the entrepreneurial cliff, and with the help of Improv built her own company. Click below to watch the video.
Optimizing Empathy: Being empathic doesn’t require giving someone advice to solve their problem.
I was sitting on my therapist’s couch, gazing through the partially opened blinds of his office’s floor to ceiling window, while he talked me through a simple gym couple scenario. “Have you ever seen that couple at the gym, where the guy is ridiculing his girlfriend about how her stomach isn’t flat enough or her butt is too small, and she works that much harder during their workout trying to…
5 Ways to Increase Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Over the last decade, more companies are giving attention to the emotional intelligence of their employees. Backed by thousands of studies, high emotional intelligence has been shown to improve job performance, leadership skills, employee interactions, relationships, mental and physical health, and happiness in employees. Most companies have employees that fall all over the emotional intelligence spectrum. How can a company work to bring everyone to a place of higher emotional…