Leadership Empathy: The Moment Your Team Stops Engaging (and Most Leaders Miss It)
When you’re being most efficient, you may be at your least empathetic. Most leaders don’t notice the exact moment their team starts to disengage. Because it doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in small moments: Usually, the leader doesn’t notice how they cut someone off or jumped to a solution. But the team member doesn’t forget how that moment felt—dismissed, ignored, railroaded, or bossed around. And from that point forward, people contribute a little less, speak up a little…
