How Is Your Tribe Influencing Your Behaviour?

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You and I have the natural tendency to adopt the 'culture' of the 'space'... the 'tribe' around us and our workspaces are an important tribe whose culture we often bring home and into our social relationships.

For example:

  • If we are in an aggressive, team-competitive, cynical, win-lose workspace, we will have a tendency to be / become abrupt, aggressive and competitive at home and with our social network.

  • If our workspace promotes listening, respect, creativity, win-win and exceptional quality... and we work in an environment where our team supports each member while being ambassadors to the company vision and values... we will have a tendency to bring that home and within our social network.

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I encourage you to not let these quiet, empathetic behaviours be over-run by more aggressive (and easy to dominate) behaviours that in the long-run hurt our personal and professional success. Leaders win… you and I win when we do two things:

  1. Demonstrate the behaviours we want as well as draw attention

  2. Reward the behaviours we want; behaviours like kindness, working together and shared respect.

Empathy is a soft-skill we all have and empathy is a healthy part of a healthy tribe. But like anything, empathy becomes healthy and strong when we feed it / nurture it and weaker when we ignore it. And the beauty is empathy at work is a low-to-no cost motivator that improves productivity, creativity and team morale while also fuels collaboration and improves customer satisfaction. What’s not to love?

The more you and I are aware of the 'culture' of our tribe... all of the tribes we belong to... the more we can play a deliberate part of shaping and nurturing our own behaviour at work, at home and within our social network as well as shaping the culture of all of the tribes be belong to.

Choose kindness, respect and empathy as well as quality, value and competitiveness.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this article about empathy and how it impacts the tribes we are part of.

Bruce

 

About Bruce and Bruce Mayhew Consulting.

Corporate trainer Bruce Mayhew (of BMC) specialize in customized Leadership, Communication and other soft skills training solutions in Toronto and across Canada.

BMC helps your greatest assets think productive and be productive.

Bruce is an experienced motivational speaker in Toronto and has inspired audiences across Canada and within the USA and the UK. Bruce works hard to always make sure your training event, conference, retreat, or annual general meeting is a success.