Empathy By Design

Organizations create policies to align employees towards shared organizational values. But when we go to work, we don't leave our diverse identities at home. Managing individuals with diverse genders, socioeconomic, racial, and religious backgrounds can be challenging. Yet, generating respect and a sense of belonging, overcoming dysfunctional conflict, and fostering diverse perspectives and points of view are essential to organizational success.  In this episode, Nelson and Holly talk with professors, Jason Lambert and Joy Leopold, to explore what makes achieving these goals so important, and so difficult for organizations to accomplish.  Listen in to discover what can organizations do to help their employees learn to understand different ways of thinking and contributing in the workplace, and how to use this insight to think critically to produce stronger work output. Find out how each of us can uncover and overcome our individual biases in order to empathize, and connect, with others.  Welcom