Our Vice President of Business Development, Holly Tate, shares ways to encourage workplace empathy without overstepping boundaries in a recent Forbes article.
---Soft skills such as empathy toward one's fellows seem to be a highly overlooked portion of the hiring process. In today's workplace, there are few individuals that consider being empathetic toward others as in many situations, empathy is seen more as a weakness than a strength. However, the ability to experience the feelings of others and commiserate with them is uniquely human.
As a modern workplace, encouraging empathy without overstepping boundaries is an admirable pursuit. To help workplaces that want to promote the feeling of compassion, 15 members of Forbes Communications Council share the strategies that help their organizations encourage understanding while still respecting individual boundaries.