Unlock the power of collaboration with empathy.
Sharon is an agent of change; she’s spoken at dozens of internal company events on making empathy actionable to improve communication, optimize collaboration and boost inclusive environments. She offers practical, confidence-building advice for managers and high-potential young leaders to advance their careers and lead with empathy.
Off Sites
Making empathy actionable starts with learning the key empathy behaviors (KEBs) required to not only retain top talent, but boost performance and increase inclusion. Sharon’s Off Site sessions help teams identify their specific KEBs; teach them how to insert those KEBs into their day-to-day life both as individuals and as a team; and learn how to give feedback from a place of empowerment and receive feedback from a place of support.
All Hands
Inspire your team with the practical, confidence-building advice managers, high-potential young leaders and employees need to be better communicators, collaborators and performers. Sharon’s All Hands sessions are equal parts actionable and inspiring, and are ideal for organizations looking to kickstart programs on optimizing performance; building and maintaining inclusive cultures; and crushing big organizational goals.
Sharon has also participated in panels, fireside chats and author series. If you’re interested in having Sharon speak at your internal company event, submit an inquiry here.
Workshop Titles and Descriptions
We specialize in facilitating guided discussions that help individuals and teams engage empathy to the benefit of the organization as a whole. Our experiential in-house webinars are designed to help your teams engage empathy; they create the platform for teams to speak openly and honestly about inclusion, race, gender and empathy at work. Each breakout is designed specifically for individual company’s needs.
Here are just a few of the workshops Communilogue can facilitate for your company. Workshops are customized to each company’s needs, and can range anywhere from 60 minutes up to a half day (three hours).
Communicating with Empathy
Based off of Sharon Steed’s LinkedIn Learning course, this breakout puts individuals in the mindset necessary learn how to communicate empathetically. Exercises are centered around exchanging “sympathy language” in favor of “empathy language,” and group discussions explore how to approach every interaction - especially difficult ones - from a place of empathy. The result of this breakout is that individuals can be more confident communicators and teams more effective collaborators.
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. The result of this breakout will be teams that know how to create, build and maintain a culture of inclusion through everyday empathy actions.
Engaging Empathy on Remote Teams
The way we work has changed, yet our basic needs as humans - specifically, our desire to interact with others and be engaged by others - remains steady. This breakout is designed for teams that aren’t always together, because those teams have a different set of needs in order to truly feel like a unit. Our core focus in this breakout will be on communicating effectively in spite of the great distances among everyone and engaging genuine empathy through the barriers of remote work.
Empathy at Work
Empathy is at the root of connection, communication, collaboration and engagement – all things that we aim to embody on teams and in organizations. This webinar teaches teams how to get in the proper mindset to have sincere conversations around empathy at work. inclusive leadership. In this hour-long webinar, we will learn the process to define empathy as an individual and as a team; marry best empathy practices to positive leadership experience; and introduce the Key Empathy Behaviors (KEBs) on a high level.