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Authors: Rohit Bhargava
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Rising that depicts stories of hope and change to bring education to more girls and women around the world and break the cycle of the many ways that women are held back in societies around the world.
The aim for all of it is to bring awareness to the issue – but Frank’s march has something that many of the other campaigns miss. His has the power to create true empathy. Once a man actually walks a mile in high heels, it is hard to forget that experience. It is a reminder of a pledge taken to support women and fight against all forms of domestic abuse.
Wearing high heels changes everything.
The $42 Million Dollar Question
When you have empathy, people start to understand one another in real ways. This is true for relationships between the genders – but also for other kinds of relationships. One example of a relationship that has become strained over the past decade is the one between a doctor and patient. With the rapid explosion of healthcare content online – anyone can immediately self diagnose their own problems with a startling level of frequency.
Of course, that doesn’t always mean a doctor will listen.
It is a good thing Carolyn Bucksbaum didn’t see a doctor who listened nearly twenty years ago. Back then she was just a patient with a feeling something was wrong and a doctor who refused to listen to her ideas of what it might be. Her story was profiled in a New York Times article in 2011 which focused on the sometimes dysfunctional nature of doctor-patient conversations.
Bucksbaum’s story had a special significance, mainly because of her dramatically different experience receiving treatment from another doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He took the time to listen and explain everything. He made her feel at ease. What he perhaps didn’t expect was just how she would choose to repay him.
The Bucksbaums had built a small fortune for themselves building retail shopping malls. And they wanted to give back. So they decided to donate $42 million dollars for the creation of a new clinical center that would focus on teaching medical professionals how to have more empathy in communications with patients.
Can that money really make a difference? One reason for hope is that in multiple studies, researchers have proved there is a strong link between better doctor patient interaction and better healthcare outcomes.
The business world is learning the same lesson. One of the most popular topics right now in the typically ROI focused world of corporate organizations is just how creating more human organizations can be good for the companies, employees and customers. The ability to show empathy is now a key leadership skill.
Learning empathy changes everything.
How To Learn Empathy
Can you really teach someone to be a better person? That’s a question I have heard before at several workshops from skeptical adults who doubted that something they considered to be an element of someone’s personality can actually be changed. The good news is, the answer is yes. I have seen it happen many times.
And empathy is often at the center of that change – because it involves someone stepping outside their own point of view and developing their ability to see things from a different perspective. Here are three techniques that I have found helpful to train business leaders and students alike:
Imagine a crazy backstory. When you are faced with someone who’s behavior you don’t understand, often it is because you can’t imagine a situation where you could act the same way. One of the biggest ways to increase your ability to empathize is to imagine a crazy scenario where you might behave exactly in the same way as the person you’re interacting with. You might not be a screamer – but what would cause you to yell at someone loudly to berate them in a certain situation? The fact is, we don’t often know the full backstories of the people we
The aim for all of it is to bring awareness to the issue – but Frank’s march has something that many of the other campaigns miss. His has the power to create true empathy. Once a man actually walks a mile in high heels, it is hard to forget that experience. It is a reminder of a pledge taken to support women and fight against all forms of domestic abuse.
Wearing high heels changes everything.
The $42 Million Dollar Question
When you have empathy, people start to understand one another in real ways. This is true for relationships between the genders – but also for other kinds of relationships. One example of a relationship that has become strained over the past decade is the one between a doctor and patient. With the rapid explosion of healthcare content online – anyone can immediately self diagnose their own problems with a startling level of frequency.
Of course, that doesn’t always mean a doctor will listen.
It is a good thing Carolyn Bucksbaum didn’t see a doctor who listened nearly twenty years ago. Back then she was just a patient with a feeling something was wrong and a doctor who refused to listen to her ideas of what it might be. Her story was profiled in a New York Times article in 2011 which focused on the sometimes dysfunctional nature of doctor-patient conversations.
Bucksbaum’s story had a special significance, mainly because of her dramatically different experience receiving treatment from another doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He took the time to listen and explain everything. He made her feel at ease. What he perhaps didn’t expect was just how she would choose to repay him.
The Bucksbaums had built a small fortune for themselves building retail shopping malls. And they wanted to give back. So they decided to donate $42 million dollars for the creation of a new clinical center that would focus on teaching medical professionals how to have more empathy in communications with patients.
Can that money really make a difference? One reason for hope is that in multiple studies, researchers have proved there is a strong link between better doctor patient interaction and better healthcare outcomes.
The business world is learning the same lesson. One of the most popular topics right now in the typically ROI focused world of corporate organizations is just how creating more human organizations can be good for the companies, employees and customers. The ability to show empathy is now a key leadership skill.
Learning empathy changes everything.
How To Learn Empathy
Can you really teach someone to be a better person? That’s a question I have heard before at several workshops from skeptical adults who doubted that something they considered to be an element of someone’s personality can actually be changed. The good news is, the answer is yes. I have seen it happen many times.
And empathy is often at the center of that change – because it involves someone stepping outside their own point of view and developing their ability to see things from a different perspective. Here are three techniques that I have found helpful to train business leaders and students alike:
Imagine a crazy backstory. When you are faced with someone who’s behavior you don’t understand, often it is because you can’t imagine a situation where you could act the same way. One of the biggest ways to increase your ability to empathize is to imagine a crazy scenario where you might behave exactly in the same way as the person you’re interacting with. You might not be a screamer – but what would cause you to yell at someone loudly to berate them in a certain situation? The fact is, we don’t often know the full backstories of the people we
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