Building Empathy: Accessing & Increasing Your Empathy for Success
Magnify Education’s Building Empathy program teaches you how to use and increase your empathy to support your success in any career.
NOTE: Students taking this course on their own may be able to receive high school credit for this course. Please check with your school administration for more information, and contact us with questions.
Increase your success
No matter where you are in your educational or professional career, being able to more fully access – and increase – your level of empathy can lead to significant success. Higher levels of empathy have been proven in myriad research studies to enhance your interpersonal relationships and communications skills; improve your ability to work with a team; help with conflict resolution; and overall, increase your leadership ability.
Yet, most training that deals with empathy focuses on telling you what to (and not to) think or do – which doesn’t help you learn how to access or increase the empathy you already have.
This is where Building Empathy is different: it focuses on the science behind how empathy works and teaches skills to help you access your existing empathy and increase it even further.
Understanding the science and learning these skills can give you a leg up from the start – first in the interview, where many companies are specifically looking for candidates that exhibit high levels of empathy; and next on the job, where higher levels of empathy will allow you to perform at more effectively and be noticed from the start.
Building Empathy: Accessing & Increasing Your Empathy for Success provides the knowledge and skills to help you prepare for the work world. Having this credential assures future employers that you understand the importance of applying empathetic skills in the workplace and will help you to support your employer’s existing culture of empathy.
Add this credential to your transcript to give yourself a jumpstart in securing your dream position
and succeeding in your career.
Expert info, engaging videos
Building Empathy: Accessing & Increasing Your Empathy for Success is an animated, humorous program that is fun to watch.
It is presented in 37 short videos with assessments and exercises that you can access on demand.
The entire program is 12.5 hours for the average student.
No matter how long you've been in leadership, you're still going to have blind spots and pockets of denial. Building Empathy helped me identify, understand, and most importantly, do something about personal biases that may limit my effectiveness. I recommend it to anyone, even those who've been in leadership for a long time."
Building Empathy
Increasing your level of empathy has been shown to lead to higher levels of success at work or school through better health; elevated innovation and creativity; higher engagement; and increased satisfaction.
Helping students expand their empathy gives them an edge in school and as they enter the workforce. When employees boost their levels of empathy, companies see higher success and retention rates, as well as reduced cost.
- The intrinsic ways our brains can trick us
- How we're regularly affected by a variety of biases
- What culture is & how it impacts our interactions
- Why diversity is useless without inclusion
- The importance of emotional intelligence
- The value of honing our listening skills
Building Empathy is a valuable educational program that covers important content such as, diversity, inclusion, unconscious bias, positive methods for managing emotions and behavior, active listening, among others. I believe that the Building Empathy program is a much needed educational resource that can help improve the overall success of both students and professionals in every aspect of life."
Module one
Introduction: Why is Empathy Important?
The program starts with an overview of how empathy allows us to connect more deeply with others, leading to success in every realm of our lives.
Module two
Mocking Your Sight
This module analyzes how our brains work to process incoming info. You’ll open your eyes to how optical illusions can trick our brains into believing inaccurate information.
Module three
World of Bias
The idea of bias can be a difficult topic to digest. In this module, we will break down various forms of bias and how these biases play a big part in how we navigate our lives and our relationships.
Module four
Where Are You in Culture?
This module provides you with an in-depth analysis of how we are unique as individuals, from country to country, and culture to culture. You’ll dig deep into the importance of culture.
Module five
Ins + Outs of Diversity
During the Ins + Outs module, you will understand why our differences are necessary to our success, how diversity enhances our lives, and the importance of practicing inclusivity.
Module six
The Impact of Our Emotions
Emotional Intelligence teaches you how to identify and regulate your emotions and understand the emotions the others to help build relationships and success.
Module seven
Listening for Understanding
Active listening can enhance our own empathic accuracy. You will see how your senses can “get in the way” of your attempts to actively listen to others.
Module eight
Pulling It All Together
Most people know about the Golden Rule: but there is a simple way to enhance the Golden Rule and make it even more powerful in helping us access and increase our empathy.