Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out
Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out is for leaders navigating the gap between where their organizations are and where they know they could be. Hosted by Steve Chua and Pete Cafarchio, the show explores the inner dynamics of leadership—and how they shape culture, performance, and sustainable growth. Each episode delivers practical insights leaders can apply to move beyond frustration, overwhelm, and stagnation, and build organizations that thrive from the inside out. Because lasting change doesn’t start with systems—it starts with leaders.
Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out
Effective Empathy
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Transformation Tip: “Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug.” - Lawrence J
Empathy Strength:
- You intuitively feel something before it is expressed
- You will feel others’ emotions as if they are your own
- Instinctive and powerful
- Can help translate the functional to the relational
How to manage the empathy talent well:
- Be in an emotionally healthy environment
- Need to have good emotional boundaries
Blind Spots:
- Can turn co-dependant
- The need to feel needed
- Abusers will prey on and take advantage of this talent
- People’s emotions tend to stick to you
- Mistake other’s emotions as your own
Transformation Application:
1.) If you don't naturally have empathy: before you talk, imagine what it’s like in the other person’s shoes.
2.) If you do have empathy: Practice at the end of your day or after you’ve had an empathetic moment, reminding yourself that it is not your issue, and release their emotions off of yourself.
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