What Does a Compassionate Workplace Look Like?

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September 13, 2018 a project of ServiceSpace Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama XIV - What Does a Compassionate Workplace Look Like? Compassion in the workplace may sound foreign, but studies have shown that cultivating compassion at the office can have remarkable outcomes for product design, employee and customer engagement, and accountability. Compassion is at the root of delivering quality service, says Monica Worline, because "Service quality hinges on relationships, and relationships deepen when we listen and hear what's going on in someone else's life." In this interview Worline, Executive Director of the CompassionLab at the University of Michigan, and co-author of Awakening Compassion at Work, sits down with author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal to discuss what happens when companies lead with empathy and how we can become stewards of compassion for ourselves, our customers, and our coworkers. { read more } Be The Change Complement this article with The Chopra Center's "10 Ways to Bring More Compassion to the Workplace". Choose one of the suggested practices to implement this week. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Dan Siegel: The Open Mind Two Words That Can Change a Life Anne Lamott Writes Down Every Single Thing She Knows Dying to Be Me What Great Leadership and Music Have in Common How Trauma Lodges in the Body Online 'University of Anywhere' for Refugees Why Be Kind? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,606 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More