Event Details
Monthly Chapter Meeting
| Date: | May 9, 2024, 8:00am – 10:00am |
| Organizer: | Cyclone SHRM |
| Location: | Zoom |
| Price: | |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
| iCal link | Add to Calendar |
Join us via Zoom on Thursday, May 9th at 8am for our monthly meeting to hear from Sharon Steed. She will be discussing Driving Inclusion with Empathy.
The workforce is more diverse than ever, yet the way we interact with each other
doesn’t always reflect these ethnic and cultural differences. Navigating a world where
we must constantly engage emotions, opinions and ideas that we don’t always
understand or agree with doesn’t have to be impossible. In fact it can be greatly
beneficial to team productivity, innovation, creativity and overall company success.
This talk shows HR professionals how to create, build and maintain organizational
inclusion by engaging in everyday empathy behaviors. Keynote speaker Sharon Steed
offers a fresh take on how to make empathy actionable as a person who stutters ; she
uses her speech impediment – and the funny, difficult and life-long lessons it taught her
– to teach HR professionals how to define empathy as individuals and as organizations
and the key empathy behaviors required to build inclusive cultures.
The deliverables
After attending this session, the attendee will be able to:
1. Identify and examine the potential biases that are impacting their ability to be effective
communicators
2. How to give feedback from a place of empowerment and receive feedback from a place of
support
3. Determine the difference between sympathy and empathy
4. Use the key empathy behaviors to take empathy from an idea to an action that attendees can
integrate seamlessly into their day
About the speaker
Sharon Steed is an international keynote speaker, author, and founder of Communilogue, a
corporate empathy and communications consultancy. She is a subject matter expert on
empathy at work, and she teaches teams and organizations the key empathy behaviors
necessary to retain top talent and improve individual and team performance. Sharon has
spoken at companies and conferences in 18 countries spanning five continents, with a focus on
improving team communication and collaboration through engaging empathy and vulnerability
as a professional asset. She has given a TEDx talk on empowering insecurities.
A lifelong stutterer, Sharon uses her speech impediment to both teach what empathy is and to
inspire audiences to engage in empathy actions daily. An author and course instructor for
O'Reilly Media, Inc., her eBook Empathy at Work is available in the O’Reilly library. Sharon’s
LinkedIn Learning course "Communicating with Empathy" has been translated to over a dozen
languages; it over 7500,000 views. A Midwest, USA native, she currently lives in Pennsylvania,
USA
Hope to see you there!
