Empathy: How to Develop Strategies for Building Empathy

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Course features
  • Category: Communication
  • Course Length: 4 minutes
  • Series: Empathy
  • Video Length: 2.25 minutes
  • Author: The URL dr
  • Resources: How to Build Empathy Checklist 
Course overview
In this micro course, we’ll explain how empathy can be learned, and we’ll describe four strategies for building empathy. Then, we’ll demonstrate how you can ask questions to improve your understanding of another’s emotions. 
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course learning objectives
  • Identify 4 strategies for building empathy
  • Ask thoughtful questions
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Certification included
Downloadable certificate upon completion.

How to develop your empathy skills

"How to Develop Strategies for Building Empathy" will dive into effective methods for developing empathy. It’s not always easy, or comfortable, to develop empathy. It requires self-awareness, sharp observation, and patience. To empathize with others, we need to suspend our judgment, see things through another’s eyes, and use our imagination.

Often, people view these traits as inherent. Either you have empathy, or you don’t. But like all skills, empathy can be developed and practiced. There are strategies you can follow to improve your ability to recognize and understand the emotions of others.
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Skills you'll learn in this course

Relationship Building

Compassion & Empathy

Leadership

Kim Merritt

Kim Merritt, The URL dr, has been teaching and training the business community for over thirty years. Her company's line of business soft skill micro courses are a quick and effective way to master a new competency in fifteen minutes or less. 
Patrick Jones - Course author