With my Profile of Empathetic & Creative Leader long mocked and blocked in French recruitment - delighted with the news courses of Empathy versus school bullying planned for the start of the 2024 school year in France:
Better late than never?
NEWS France, faced with school bullying (and not only) is finally getting into the time of empathy classes for the start of the 2024 school year. In Denmark since 1993, there are 1 hour of lessons per week for 6-16 year olds. "FRI for Mobbing" method.
PRESS ARTICLES :
Articles de presse : https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/life/article/les-cours-d-empathie-generalises-dans-les-ecoles-en-france-a-la-rentree-2024-en-quoi-consistent-ils_223670.html
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/10/01/cours-d-empathie-a-l-ecole-notre-difficulte-a-nous-mettre-dans-la-peau-des-autres-a-de-lourdes-consequences-societales-et-politiques_6191797_3232.html
https://www.forbes.fr/management/leadership-pourquoi-la-creativite-est-essentielle-et-comment-la-cultiver/
REALITY: with an EMPATHETIC & CREATIVE LEADER profile: harassed, mocked, discredited...
I was often harassed, mocked, even falsely cruelly called "crazy", refused on certain positions where still in 2023 "managers" think that creativity is for "crazy" or "artists" (in a contemptuous sense) while FALSE because LEADERSHIP and CREATIVITY = INNOVATION and much more. It is time for France to open up its perspectives and open up prospects to innovative, differentiated profiles, that can bring about a renewal, especially a powerful and necessary entrepreneurial one.
LET'S LOOK AT SOME DEFINITIONS:
Leadership:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership
Leadership or primacy is political, psychological, social, etc. influence. of an individual on a group of individuals or of a group of individuals on another group. The leader has personal skills that make a difference and allow him to be listened to and followed by a group of people.
Empathy:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathie
Empathy is the recognition and understanding of another individual's feelings and emotions.
In the study of interpersonal relationships, empathy is therefore different from the notions of sympathy, compassion, altruism or emotional contagion, which can be associated with it.
Creativity:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9ativit%C3%A9
Creativity is, in general, the ability of an individual to imagine and implement a new concept, a new object or to discover an original solution to a problem.
It can be more precisely defined as "a psychological or psycho-sociological process by which an individual shows imagination and originality in the way he associates things, ideas, situations and, through the publicity of things, situations, and by the publicity of things".
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9ativit%C3%A9
Creativity and leadership
For contemporary American psychologist Robert Sternberg, creativity and leadership are intimately linked. On the one hand, creativity is a form of leadership, and on the other hand, one of the three components of leadership is creativity.
Creative Leadership:
Creativity is a major leadership challenge within companies.
Creative leadership is necessary for innovation and the rapid adaptation of the business to the various changes that can occur in a competitive and changing environment.
Creative leadership is therefore useful for leaders, teams, and organizations. Sylvie Labelle, aware of this fact, conducted a study on the subject.
In conclusion:
Empathy is not a weakness, it is one of our greatest assets: and for society and its future!.
Treating it as a prejudice for our organizations or our teams will ultimately lead to failure: we see this with school bullying, "gangstalking" possible at any age (which should also be condemned see my previous messages on this subject).
It's true that women generally have more empathy, but that's exactly why we need them in technology and in leadership.
To meditate on.
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