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Empathy – It’s an Active Skill

Written by Rob Duncan on .

The Public Sector is very different than the private sector. While this is true, many of the struggles contained in this video are present throughout local government organizations. This is a video worth bookmarking and re-watching for inspiration

 There IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO EVERY DAY – you have the power to continuously improve performance of your team by honing your empathy skills.

Simon Sinek covers some very important topics in this short video including the fallacy of “you need to do more with less”. This is certainly not a piece on how to be soft on employees, a different bad habit that exists in many organizations. This is about leaders actually doing more than “management” of functions and tasks. It’s about what it actually takes to lead people and he demonstrates how a single person produces different results based on the leader and real values of the organization.

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