Cultivating Empathy with Lisa Alvarez

Eric welcomes Lisa Alvarez on today’s Management Development Unlocked. Lisa is a leadership development manager, guide, facilitator, and teacher. She helps leaders develop their skills, EQ, and feedback conflict management. She helps leaders engage feelings and emotions and bring them back into the work environment.Lisa is the founder of The EMOTIVE lab and helps businesses achieve results by creating an environment where their employees can thrive and perform at their highest potential.In this episode, you’ll hear:How Lisa Alvarez says leaders can improve their EQ and empathy’s role in influencing others.Defining self-awareness, learning to be with how you’re feeling, and why it’s the first step toward empathizing with others.What managers can do to become more self-aware.The importance of centering yourself to relax and focus to handle a situation in a responsive rather than reactive manner.The biggest challenges new managers face when it comes to empathy.Why exposure to people who are different from you can help you develop empathy.Lisa’s EQ workshops for leaders and what you can learn from The EMOTIVE Lab.Her final thoughts on developing empathy.Connect with Lisa Alvarez:LinkedInThe EMOTIVE Lab---Head over to girardtrainingsolutions.com to get a free copy of my eBook, "Advice for a New Manager."Connect with me on LinkedIn.Please subscribe and comment!