Compassion and the Web Designer

While I was thinking about writing this, I thought it interesting that compassion would be a quality necessary for the business place.  At first glance, compassion and business seem to not work well with each other.

After some pondering, having compassion makes a person more desirable to work with.  Compassion makes a person more kind, patient and understanding.  Possessing those qualities doesn’t make you a pushover, but it does make one flexible.  So, you are more willing to work with others, their ideas and their thoughts.  You don’t just have your vision and make the client go with it.

In an article I read by Richard Nemec on Findarticles.com called Compassion is OK in the business world, he talks about the need to have this important emotion.  He says:

Organizations are too often passionless and unemotional. And that, I think, is what has made most of our organizational communication so dull and unmoving for the audiences we try to reach.

By being the emotional, compassionate person, we are better able to reach and relate with our clients.  Nemec goes on to outline how a team would work best together.  And you can probably imagine it involves sharing.

1. Emotions and feelings – not intellectual pronouncements are what move people.

2. If people cannot show how they truly feel and think, they will never trust the people leading them. (They will pretend they do, but they will really distrust them even more because of the lack of truthfulness in the work environment.)

3. Winning teams are emotional and share those emotions among team members.

By being compassionate and sharing with those with whom we work or work for, we can creating trusting, working and real relationships with those around us.  That makes us a better employ and business partners.