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Date posted: 19th July 2022

19th July 2022

Guest Blog: Why You Need to be a Compassionate Leader (And How to Become One)

Guest Blog: Why You Need to be a Compassionate Leader (And How to Become One)

This is a guest post by Gillian French. Gillian is the Expert in Residence – Employee Experience at Workvivo.

Leadership in the workplace is well overdue a makeover. Employees of today want to enjoy their job and work with a compassionate leader, one who genuinely cares about their people.

Achieving this will require us to disrupt traditional outdated values associated with leadership, like top-down and transactional communication. Find out how to be a compassionate leader here.