Empathy requires specific conditions in which it can thrive. It demands time and attention to active listening and thoughtful speaking.
Why the element of empathy has gained importance in the workplace post covid phase and how it impacts the work culture?
ST The word empathy comes from the German word “Einfühlung”, coined in the late 1800s, which might broadly translate as “feeling into”. Empathy is the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated. Though they are closely related words, it took almost a century for our civilization to replace the word Sympathy by Empathy. Circumstances in which sympathy and empathy are applicable are similar, yet they are not synonymous. Sympathy implies sharing the feelings of another, while empathy tends to be used to mean imagining, or having the...
