Your Empathy Reading List

Explore the value of healthy empathy to strengthen your personal and professional relationships.

Scroll down to find an ever-growing list of empathy articles and research that solidifies the need for healthy empathy in leadership and teams in modern business.

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Empathy for Leaders

How to sustain your empathy in difficult times.

https://hbr.org/2024/01/how-to-sustain-your-empathy-in-difficult-times

How Empathy Can help you lead across cultures.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenmenabney/2023/12/13/how-empathy-helps-you-lead-across-cultures/?sh=6f08536612a2

Three-quarters of Australian workers think now is a good time to change jobs. This is what managers can do better to keep them

Hi. I found an article that you might like: "Three-quarters of Australian workers think now is a good time to change jobs. This is what managers can do better to keep them" — https://theconversation.com/three-quarters-of-australian-workers-think-now-is-a-good-time-to-change-jobs-this-is-what-managers-can-do-better-to-keep-them-232003

Make it safe at work for people to speak up.

How Great Coaches Ask, Listen and Empathise

The Secret to Leading Organisational Change is Empathy

Making Empathy Central to your Company Culture

Make Your meetings a safe space for honest conversation

Why Compassion is a better managerial tactic than toughness

Leading During Uncertain Times : The Rising Importance of Empathy

Why belonging is the key to Building the New Workforce

How Empathy and Competence promote a diverse leadership culture

Compassionate Organisations Quiz

Why it's more important than ever for workplaces to have wellbeing plans

Why employees quit - 11 evidence-based reasons

Empathy at Work

The Importance of Showing Empathy in the Workplace

Make it safe at work for people to speak up.

Educators, it's time to put your compassion hats on

Why breathing is so important for managing stress

The importance of empathy in healthcare

Empathy and Healthcare - multiple articles

Impact of national legislation of psychosocial risks in Europe

Empathy for Individuals

Small Talk is Boring. Our Research suggests you can do better.

The Neuroscience of Trust

What great listeners actually do

Six Habits of Highly Empathic People

Empathy Rules

Mental Illness in Not in Your Head

How Comforting Others Helps with your own Struggles

Losing connectedness primes us for conspiracies and the coffin

Understanding Empathy

Understanding others' feelings: what is empathy and why do we need it?

Misinterpreting Empathy

Empathy in Action

The Relational Work of Systems Change

Can Empathy Reduce Racism?

Can Empathy Help Stop Climate Change?

Empathy "How to"s

How to Give to Others without Burning Out

Listen like it's your first date

How to talk to someone about suicide

Too much empathy is damaging - 3 ways to get the balance right.

Empathy and connection

Losing connectedness primes us for conspiracies and the coffin

How Loneliness Kills - Loneliness vs solitude

The Social Prescribing Revolution is here

Interesting empathy research

Nice Guys and Gals Finish last - not in early adolescence when empathic peers are desirable

Cancel Culture is preventing law students from learning empathy

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