Podcast: Katharine Manning on empathy in the workplace

We often advance in our roles by being great problem solvers. But leaders could be more effective by trying to understand rather than solve problems.

Katharine Manning is a coach and consultant on empathy, president of Blackbird, and author of The Empathetic Workplace: 5 steps to a compassionate, calm, and confident response to trauma on the job.

We talked about:

  • How leaders can foster empathy in the workplace.
  • The key role of compliance professionals.
  • The rapid rise of employee anxiety since Covid lockdowns.
  • How to maintain empathy in a remote-first workplace.
  • The prevalence of burnout and how to cope with it.
  • The importance of workplace flexibility.
  • The utility of data and statistics.
  • Why CEOs and leaders should aim to understand problems, not solve them.

A transcript of this podcast is available.