discovering behavior - empathy way

Historically, our workforce has had its fair share of what I call "text-book leaders" someone good in reading out content than being a "laboratory-leader" - one who's practices and also takes pride in experimenting...!!!

being today's leaders is all about -

being there
being transparent
being vulnerable
being the change, that need to be changed

I am fortunate to come across one true practitioner, who is willing to experiment & by virtue of it displays immense leadership qualities...meet "pba"

Sometimes all it needs is one accident/incident to define the persona. Here's one from "pba" -

Global teams are a reality and biggest challenge we are facing is to keep all as a "TEAM". This is possible only when "empathy" is a behavior on the ground than a dictionary entity. 

"pba" during one of his visits to other side of the globe, got a first hand feel of the challenges people face with time-zone, late evening meetings, impact to their personal life etc

A genuine practitioner, he asks himself 

"how he can be there for others" ,

"how he can be the change he is asking others to be"

"how he can be vulnerable and try stuff" 

He doesn't stop there, he evens discovers the answer. 

Once he is back to his home-land, he decides to wake up early, take calls more earlier than before so that his counterparts on the other side of the globe can leave home early

He advocates more video calls, as the human connect is what defines a relationship than audio connects and that is core of everything

Does the above behavior ring a bell, yes you are right , one of the most abused word "empathy"

A practitioner silently graduates without much fuss , another trait of being a leader.

Way to go "pba"

Professional Friction v/s Personal Differences

Few days back, one of my very good friend , raised a point on why there are dysfunctions in team ?

Why can't the team understand they are here for a professional purpose, keep aside their differences and strive for better performance....!!!

An interesting thought, one that provoked some thought in all us....

If at all professionals can accept personal differences, still agree to disagree but then work for greater cause...what an awesome world it would be..

Why do they get converted into personal issues ?

Why should someone build and carry personal issues in a professional environment ?

At the end we agreed that a good percentage of our workforce is unable to differentiate between the two and hence this big thriving opportunity of getting them together....

We all are humans and drawing boundaries are nearly impossible, which means this behavior is here to stay....!!!

And thats the reality.....