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Empathy (noun) is the understanding of the emotional state or thoughts of another person.
Empathy involves being curious about other people, active listening, self-awareness, emotional intelligence and openness.[2]
Benefits of empathy skills
Some benefits of empathy skills are:[3]
1. Better understanding of the needs of people around you
2. More clearly understanding how you affect others
3. Better at understanding non-verbal cues
4. Better for your career, business success and various social endeavors
5. Better equipped to deal with interpersonal conflict. See: Conflict resolution
6. More accurately predict people’s behaviour
7. Greater ability to motivate the people around you. See: Motivation
8. Greater ability to work more effectively with others. See: Interpersonal skills
9. Ability to see the greater social picture. See: Social analysis
10. Greater ability to be a better leader, worker and friend e active listening
Relationship building skills
See also: Agreeableness and Interpersonal skills
People build friendships in both leisure and work situations.
Building strong personal relationships
- Building and maintaining healthy relationships, HealthDirect
- Building and Sustaining Relationships Building and Sustaining Relationships, University of Kansas
- Top tips on building and maintaining healthy relationships, Mental Health Foundation
- Building and maintaining relationships, Milne Library
Building strong work relationships
- How to build real relations at work, Harvard Business Review
Books
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks. Random House (October 24, 2023)
See also
External links
- What Is Empathy?
- How to Be More Empathetic, WebMD
- How to Be More Empathetic, PsychCentral
- How to Be More Empathetic in a Relationship and Why It Matters, PsychCentral
- Empathic Skills: Definition and Examples
- The most Important Empathy Skills With Examples