Developing Others by Strengthening their Abilities

Developing others is part of your Empathy - a component of your Social Competence.

While Empathy, in general, is related to your awareness of other people’s needs and concerns; developing others relates to sensing their growth needs and strengthening their abilities.

People who have this competence usually:

• Acknowledge and reward people's strengths and accomplishments
• Offer useful feedback and identify people's needs for further growth
• Show sensitivity to other people's feelings
• Assign tasks that challenge and foster people's skills
• Mentor and coach other people

We'll continue next week.

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Understanding Others; the Active Aspect of Caring

Understanding others is part of your Empathy -a component of your Social Competence.

While Empathy, in general, is related to your awareness, needs, and concerns of others; Understanding Others senses the feelings and perspectives of other people and makes you take an active interest in their concerns.

People who have this competence usually:

• Are attentive to emotional cues
• Listen well to what people say
• Show sensitivity to other people's feelings
• Understand other people perspectives
• Help out without expectations

At a personal level, relationships are built by understanding other people. At a business level, businesses thrive when companies truly understand their customer's needs, feelings, perspectives - that's usually the purpose of marketing research: it aims to understand customer's needs and wants.

The Importance of Social Skills in Our Overall Social Competencies

In our last blog, we had an overview of the different aspects related to Empathy as part of Social Competence; we will now cover aspects related to Social Skills

Social Competence relates to your ability to handle relationships in a positive way, and your ability to get along with other people. Social Skill is a part of your Social Competence personality.  

While Social competence, in general, relates to your ability to handle relationships properly, Social Skills relates to your effectiveness at inducing desirable responses in others.

People who have this competence usually:

• Have influence
• Good communication skills
• Manage conflicts with great success
• Bring leadership
• Are catalysts of change
• Build bonds
• Collaborate and cooperate
• Have team capabilities

We’ll be covering each of these eight aspects in details later on.