Stop Managing & Start Leading: Check your narrative about people

Thanks for tuning into another Leading with Empathy newsletter. This fortnightly package of ideas to help inspire empathetic leadership in the world. Let me know what resonates with you.

What if people are good and it is managers & professors are just jerks?

Imagine, you sit at a control panel. The man in a grey lab coat standing next to you instructs you to press a button labelled “Danger: severe shock”. You understand that pressing this button will send 375 volts of electricity through the body of a person in the next room. Just moments before you had pressed the button labelled 300 volts that were followed by screams of pain. Sweat starts to form on your brow.

From the next room, a whimpering voice begs you to stop. You hesitate. The man in the grey lab coat looks at you and says: “Please continue”. You are frozen, not wanting to hurt the man any more than you already have. The man in the lab coat prods you again: “The experiment requires you to continue.”

You feel wave after wave of guilt and fear wash over you. As you sit frozen at the control panel the man in the lab coat is unrelenting: “It is absolutely essential that you continue.”

The pressure is building. You feel your finger moving towards the button as the low sobs of the man in the next room start. Again you pause, hoping the is another way out. The man again pushes you to action: “You have no other choice but to continue.”

To your horror, your finger presses down on the button and blood-curdling screams are heard from the next room as 375 volts surge through the body of an already distressed victim.

To continue reading and find out how this might be shaping your leadership style, click here.

Leader Set The Vision

When it comes to the role of a leader, we sometimes feel pressure to know all the answers and be in the weeds with our people. The reality is, that is likely their job, not yours. Instead, your job as a leader is to set a clear vision for the path forward, check out this short video from a conference I presented last year.

Hear what our clients think of our work... Amanda Unwin

We've had the pleasure of working with the awesome team at Southern Cross Austereo in the last year and we thought who better than Amanda Unwin, Head of Radio Sales, to share her experience working with Empathic Consulting.

Does your team need a boost?

If like Amanda's team, your people could do with a boost of empathy to reinvigorate and inspire, why not reach out to discuss one of our Boost Sessions. Available both virtually and in person, these sessions provide a highly interactive and practical experience for your people to help shift from victims of circumstances to leaders of culture.

We have a variety of sessions and can tailor them to fit the specific challenges your people are facing. Click the link below to check out how a boost session can inspire your team to build empathy in the workplace.

https://empathicconsulting.com/virtual-boost-sessions

Thanks for checking out the newsletter and I hope you found some useful information to support your leadership journey. But why stop there? If you have a question for me, simply drop it in the comments below so we can all explore together.

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Have a great week and let's build empathy and leadership to change the world.

Regards

Daniel Murray

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