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Design Your Destiny™
SHAPED For Success™
Discover Your Purpose™
SHAPED For Leadership™
Demolish Your Strongholds™
Developing Trust & Rapport™

EMPATHY

Empathy is an important ingredient when aiming to build trust. Without it we are left with a derelict group of practices that consist of either domination, or manipulation. These would yield only short-term results, and are no basis for winning and maintaining trust. Besides any moral considerations, they fail to produce long-term success. Empathy builds people together, it also ensures that when trying to influence, we use that which is appropriate. Inappropriate influence will actually have the reverse effect.

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DIVERSE DEFINITIONS

Empathy has been described as: “Understanding and entering into the feelings of another”. I prefer not to attribute that definition because I would argue that it is inadequate. Empathy is far more than feelings and it is highly practical besides. One could argue that it is as “hard” a skill as numeracy and as evidential as the ability to read. Because it has so many applications it is capable of a diversity of definitions.

EMPATHY IS POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE

Empathy cannot simply be regarded as “Useful if you have it”. It is the core skill for exercising influence and building trust & rapport. Unfortunately, there are those who prefer to believe that any form of emotional intelligence is outside their realm. Usually this is just an excuse for being lazy!

Empathy is not a mysterious science. It is a skill that can be developed. By practicing the principles of this competency we can develop the inner responses that lead to the outer behaviours. This might mean a rather wooden, or mechanistic start, as you shed the taboos of a lifetime, which have prevented this competency from being allowed to develop. For some it means allowing your feelings to exercise a little more authority within your responses and relationships. Adjusting to a more people oriented perspective is a skill that will serve you greatly in building trust.

 

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