Empathy-ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

Name: _____________________________________

TEMPLATE for Empathy Project (100 points)

You may type in your answers to the red questions posted in this document. Remember the 1 point = 1 quality sentence rule of thumb. I welcome more detail but that is a minimum amount.

THE PROJECT

A. Self-Assessment (10 points)

Take one or both of the following empathy self-assessments. One is an online quiz that scores automatically. The second is a paper assessment that you score yourself. The paper one does break empathy apart into some sub-scores which may provide you with more information. But for the purposes of the project, you are required to take one of the assessments and reflect on what the assessment reveals about your empathy.

Empathy Quiz

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_%E2%80%8Bquiz/empathy

Empathy A Self-Assessment MCRHRDI

https://www.mcrhrdi.gov.in/splfc2021/subjects/Management/3/Empathy%20-%20Questionnaire.pdf

REFLECTION on Self-Assessment (10 points)

After taking the self-assessment, share which test you took and your score (high, med or average, low empathy).

What do you learn from this self-assessment about your current skill level of perceiving empathy for others?

Did you find value in taking this self-assessment?

B. Learning More about the Skill of Empathy

Watch these TWO TedTalks about Empathy

· Reimaging Empathy: The Transformative Nature of Empathy Paul Parkin TEDxUVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aHb_GTRVo

· We’re experiencing an empathy shortage, but we can fix it together | Jamil Zaki | TEDxMarin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DspKSYxYDM

Also, read these webarticles about Empathy

· Building and implementing your capacity for empathy

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/health/develop-empathy-skills-wellness/index.html

· What is Empathy?

https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/empathy.html

· The Most Important Empathy Skills (with examples)

https://www.zippia.com/advice/empathy-skills/

· Developing Empathy: 8 Strategies & Worksheets for Becoming More Empathetic

https://positivepsychology.com/empathy-worksheets/

· Telling an Empathy Story

https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Telling-an-Empathy-Story.pdf

REFLECTION on Resources (5 points)

Which of those resources were the most helpful to you in understanding empathy? Why?

C. Designing Your Empathy Project

Purpose of this project

Empathy is a skill that can be developed. Research shows that leaders with empathy have a positive impact on the people they lead including eliciting more ethical behavior.

Step 1. Select an Issue or Situation

Identify an issue or situation about which you do not have much empathy. Your challenge will be to be open to learning more, communicating with others, and taking steps to understand more about this issue and how this issue or situation impacts others. I ask you to put yourself in a different position to be open to understanding and communicating in an exploratory way to better understand another person’s feelings about this topic.

You also could pick an issue or situation you do not know much about or have been neutral or disengaged from so do not have much empathy for that reason.

This is a project where you will have to be creative to come up with what will work for you to reach this new level of understanding.

Step 2. Self-Reflection prior to the Project

Before you take steps to understand, describe your feelings/perspective on this issue. Be honest with yourself about your starting position. Reflect on why you believe/feel this way.

Selecting an Issue/Situation & Self-Reflection (10 points)

Tell me about the issue or situation you selected. Why did you select this issue or situation?

Before you take steps to understand, describe your feelings/perspective on this issue. Be honest with yourself about your starting position. Reflect on why you believe/feel this way.

Step 3. Identify the Actions You Will Take

Describe the actions you will take to strive to understand what the other person feels/believes. You need to take at least 3 different actions.

Action 1: What you will do and why you have picked this action

Action 2: What you will do and why you have picked this action

Action 3: What you will do and why you have picked this action

Planning and Preparing (20 points)

Describe the actions you will take to strive to understand what the other person feels/believes. You need to take at least 3 different actions.

Action 1: What you will do and why you have picked this action

Action 2: What you will do and why you have picked this action

Action 3: What you will do and why you have picked this action

You can list more action steps. You must have at least 3.

Also, prepare questions ahead of time so you will be prepared to stay in an exploratory and not judgmental mindset. List at least five questions below that will help you stay in an exploratory mindset.

D. Putting Your Plan into Action

Once you have outlined the actions you will take, then do the actions. Modify and adapt but try to achieve the intended purpose of each action. Reflect after each action, and capture your thoughts on the template. It is very important that you reflect after each action rather than trying to reflect at one time at the end.

Implementing the Plan and Reflection after each step (30 points)

Tell me about implementing Action 1. What happened? Give details. Then, reflect on what you learned? How did it impact your thinking? How did this step impact your empathy?

Tell me about implementing Action 2. What happened? Give details. Then, reflect on what you learned? How did it impact your thinking? How did this step impact your empathy?

Tell me about implementing Action 3. What happened? Give details. Then, reflect on what you learned? How did it impact your thinking? How did this step impact your empathy?

Do the same for any other actions you took.

Deep Reflection to Learn & Develop the Skill of Empathy (15 points)

Reflect on the Specific Empathy Project You Undertook to Learn & Develop Skill

Reflect deeply on what you experienced and learned from taking those collective steps. Describe what you now understand about why and how this person or people feel. But more importantly, describe how taking these steps impacted you.

Reflect on how you can develop empathy generally

Reflect on steps you can take in general to develop your skill in empathy.

Provide Feedback to Dr. Clark to Make Project Better (10 points)

Provide feedback to Dr. Clark on how to improve this empathy exercise.