From the course: Communicating with Empathy

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Learn the the key empathy behaviors

Learn the the key empathy behaviors

From the course: Communicating with Empathy

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Learn the the key empathy behaviors

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- I hear it all the time. "I suck at empathy." And if you feel like you are having a hard time with empathy, then that's okay. A lot of people do. They find it incredibly challenging to walk in another person's shoes. And honestly, that's incredibly fair. A lot of our world is so divided in so many ways. Class, education, political affiliations, ethnicity, generational gaps. Sometimes the only things that we can see are what makes us different. So, how do we communicate effectively with empathy? We do that with the key empathy behaviors. So, what are the key empathy behaviors? These are the core components required to engage in empathy actions and communication and beyond. They are the foundation of your personal approach to empathetic communication and your specific process to readily operationalize empathy in your everyday life. There are three of them, and they are patience, perspective, and connection. So if we're comparing these key empathy behaviors to a house, patience is the…

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