Table of contents hide 1 Empathy is the key to success that social entrepreneurs already have and that it is necessary to stimulate from the earliest ages 1.1 Empathy with action 1.2 A baby to be empathic 1.3 The future is in education 1.4 Empathy with action 1.5 A baby to be empathetic 1.6 The future is in education 2 This is the key for your children to succeed in the future
Empathy is the key to success that social entrepreneurs already possess and that it is necessary to stimulate from the earliest ages
If you are worried that your child does not get good grades in English; You have trouble solving math problems or you just didn't learn the periodic table, don't be alarmed. All these are secondary issues in the formation of children. There are more important things that should shine from the earliest ages. A skill that will allow you to be a good professional and succeed in life. Do you want to know what it is? Empathy
«If your boss or co-worker is not empathetic, you will not want to work with him; grow with him, follow in his footsteps… In short, they are not good leaders, ”explains Ana Sáenz de Miera, director of Ashoka in Spain and Portugal, the largest network of social entrepreneurs in the world. Hence the importance of being empathic. "Mental and affective identification of a subject with the mood of another, " says the SAR, that is, the ability of one person to put himself in the place of the other.
And why is empathy more important than speaking a language? “The only thing we know about the future - explains Ana Sáenz de Miera - is that we will continue working with people. Therefore, we will have to organize ourselves, work as a team, be leaders, creatives ... And all this is only possible if we work on empathy, a skill with which we are all born but that we have to practice and stimulate. Otherwise, we will not get anything ».
The labor market has changed and professional needs too. We do not know if in the future more doctors, ICT professionals or professors will be needed and it is also true that the business organization is changing: the big organizations are already history and startups and entrepreneurs are stepping on more and more force. "This is a change of 'chip' in the mentality of society that we will end up seeing, " says Sáenz de Miera.
Empathy with action
But you don't just have to be able to put yourself in the place of the other. But to do something to improve that situation. No one remembers when Ebola was just a matter in Africa? Was any Spanish able to put himself in the situation of a Guinean? Of the Doctors Without Borders volunteers who, for example, have been working against the virus for a long time? Until he arrived in Spain, the Spaniards did not take action. And the same has happened in other countries . Now, the goal is to ensure that the Ebola epidemic does not become a long-term global health crisis. And in that we are.
That is precisely what it is. Of empathy in action. "Because, otherwise, it's worthless, " says the director of Ashoka. "All social entrepreneurs have a high degree of empathy, " he says, since they are able to detect a problem and get under way to solve it. On a large scale, we could continue talking about the Ebola virus but, as a child, Ana Sáenz de Miera exemplifies: «A group of entrepreneurs who set up a company thinking about the need of the neighborhood park to have water».
Families, schools, education professionals and society in general are responsible for this social change whose roots are in Toronto, Canada, in 1996. There, Mary Gordon launched the "Roots of Empathy" program in schools, mainly with conflicting students, to reduce levels of violence and student aggression and promote social behaviors that increase levels of empathy, as explained by its "Roots of Empathy" foundation.
A baby to be empathetic
In each classroom, following Gordon's instructions, one works with a baby, who acts as an "emotional laboratory" for the students. As they do not articulate words, students learn to identify if the baby is happy, sad, why he cries ... In this way, children learn to recognize their own feelings, then be able to explain themselves, and understand how their actions affect the feelings of those around them.
The results are really amazing: violent attitudes in the classroom are reduced, children understand their classmates' emotions, increase the ability of children to integrate and develop other skills.
Companies do not demand a good electrician but someone who knows how to work in a team. In short, good people who, in the end, are good professionals because the one who is capable of being a good leader, of working in a team, etc., thanks to empathy, will be the person of mine You are happy in the world and you will succeed, says Ana S enz de Miera.
Is your boss an emphatic person? If you are a great leader, if you are a person capable of developing empathy, your team will follow. Otherwise, it will end up falling, he explains. Many have already fallen. Others will fall because, after all, companies are people.
The future is in education
And so that there are increasingly better people directing teams and companies, you have to ededucate successfully, remember director of Ashoka in Spain and Portugal, who is also a mother, and for this reason they are already working so that the empathy is worked in the schools of Spain (although in the Canary Islands there is a compulsory subject), along with other types of skills and in a transversal way, as many schools in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany or Ireland already do.
Only in this way will we be able to have good professionals in the future, capable of working as a team, good people, concerned with social problems The traditional competitive advantages are no longer enough, he wrote in her blog the former general director of ING Direct, Carina Spinka, an advocate of empathy, who speaks of Adaptive Advantage, that is, the ability to quickly identify signals of the environment, ability to experiment, ability to connect with people and society, etc. And how not, the need to generate Adaptive leaders as a key to developing these new strategic dimensions in organizations. People who favor to be experienced in your organization, who manage the environment and do not let themselves be managed by him, who seek a multitude of opinions and not only his own and with much, much empathy and a clear sense of purpose.
If you are worried that your child does not get good grades in English; you have trouble solving math problems or you just didn't learn the periodic table, don't be alarmed. All these are secondary issues in the training of children. There are more important things that should shine from the earliest ages. A skill that will allow you to be a good professional and succeed in life. Do you want to know what it is? Empathy
«If your boss or co-worker is not empathetic, you will not want to work with him; grow with him, follow in his footsteps… In short, they are not good leaders, ”explains Ana Sáenz de Miera, director of Ashoka in Spain and Portugal, the largest network of social entrepreneurs in the world. Hence the importance of being empathic. "Mental and affective identification of a subject with the mood of another, " says the SAR, that is, the ability of one person to put himself in the place of the other.
And why is empathy more important than speaking a language? “The only thing we know about the future - explains Ana Sáenz de Miera - is that we will continue working with people. Therefore, we will have to organize ourselves, work as a team, be leaders, creatives ... And all this is only possible if we work on empathy, a skill with which we are all born but that we have to practice and stimulate. Otherwise, we will not get anything ».
The labor market has changed and professional needs too. We do not know if in the future more doctors, ICT professionals or professors will be needed and it is also true that the business organization is changing: the big organizations are already history and startups and entrepreneurs are stepping on more and more force. "This is a change of 'chip' in the mentality of society that we will end up seeing, " says Sáenz de Miera.
Empathy with action
But you don't just have to be able to put yourself in the place of the other. But to do something to improve that situation. No one remembers when Ebola was just a matter in Africa? Was any Spanish able to put himself in the situation of a Guinean? Of the Doctors Without Borders volunteers who, for example, have been working against the virus for a long time? Until he arrived in Spain, the Spaniards did not take action. And the same has happened in other countries. Now, the goal is to ensure that the Ebola epidemic does not become a long-term global health crisis. And in that we are.
That is precisely what it is. Of empathy in action. "Because, otherwise, it's worthless, " says the director of Ashoka. "All social entrepreneurs have a high degree of empathy, " he says, since they are able to detect a problem and get under way to solve it. On a large scale, we could continue talking about the Ebola virus but, as a child, Ana Sáenz de Miera exemplifies: «A group of entrepreneurs who set up a company thinking about the need of the neighborhood park to have water».
Families, schools, education professionals and society in general are responsible for this social change whose roots are in Toronto, Canada, in 1996. There, Mary Gordon launched the "Roots of Empathy" program in schools, mainly with conflicting students, to reduce levels of violence and student aggression and promote social behaviors that increase levels of empathy, as explained by its "Roots of Empathy" foundation.
A baby to be empathetic
In each classroom, following Gordon's instructions, one works with a baby, who acts as an "emotional laboratory" for the students. As they do not articulate words, students learn to identify if the baby is happy, sad, why he cries ... In this way, children learn to recognize their own feelings, then be able to explain themselves, and understand how their actions affect the feelings of those around them.
The results are really amazing: violent attitudes in the classroom are reduced, children understand the emotions of their classmates, increase the ability of children to integrate and develop other skills.
«Companies do not demand a good electrician but someone who knows how to work in a team. In short, good people who, in the end, are good professionals because the one who is capable of being a good leader, of working in a team, etc., thanks to empathy, will be the happiest person in the world and will get success », he says Ana Sáenz de Miera.
Is your boss an empathetic person? «If you are a great leader, if you are a person capable of developing empathy, your team will follow. Otherwise, it will end up falling, ”he explains. Many have already fallen. Others will fall because, after all, companies are people.
The future is in education
And so that there are increasingly better people leading teams and companies, you have to "educate successfully, " recalls Ashoka's director in Spain and Portugal, who is also a mother, and for this reason they are already working for empathy to work in the schools in Spain (although in the Canary Islands there is a compulsory subject), along with other skills and in a transversal way, as many schools in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany or Ireland already do.
Only in this way will we be able to have good professionals in the future, capable of working as a team, good people, concerned with social problems… “Traditional competitive advantages are no longer enough, ” wrote in his blog the former ING Direct Director General, Carina Spinka, an advocate of empathy, which speaks of "Adaptive Advantage", that is, "the ability to quickly identify the signs of the environment, ability to experiment, ability to connect with people and society, etc. And of course, the need to generate 'Adaptive leaders' as a key to developing these new strategic dimensions in organizations. People who favor to be experienced in your organization, who manage the environment and do not allow themselves to be managed by him, who seek a multitude of opinions and not only his own and with much, much empathy and a clear sense of purpose ».
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By : Ana Martí
This is the key for your children to succeed in the future
