Social Awareness: The Key to Peace and Harmony
SUMMARY
The key to overcoming conflict in the world is a greater level of social awareness. We all have our own views on things. We carry our own unconscious biases about particular things, people, parts of the world.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to start a conversation that will help you understand that social awareness is the key to peace and harmony.
The key to reducing conflict and restoring peace and harmony is for you to take personal responsibility for your role in it. And that begins with social awareness.
Social awareness is about other people. It's about considering what could be going on for them. And to do that, you need to develop some key skills.
The first one is empathy. The second thing is situational awareness. And the third element is service orientation.
TRANSCRIPT
The key to overcoming conflict in the world is a greater level of social awareness.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to start a conversation that will help you understand that social awareness is the key to peace and harmony.
Conflict has a major impact on every area of life. It reduces productivity. It creates attraction and retention problems. It has a major effect financially on you, your practice, your firm, and your business.
The key to reducing conflict and restoring peace and harmony is for you to take personal responsibility for your role in it. And that begins with social awareness.
Social awareness is about other people. It's about considering what could be going on for them. Social intelligence adds the curiosity to want to understand what could be going on for others in that same moment.
And to do that, you need to develop some key skills.
The first one is empathy. Empathy is in short supply in the world right now. It means you want to understand what someone else is going through. Empathy is not apathy. And it's not sympathy. No — empathy is that beautiful sweet spot in the middle that says, "Hey, I don't know what's going on with you right now, but I really would like to understand."
The second thing is situational awareness. You need to understand, in the moment, what's going on in a situation. You need to be present.
And the third element of social awareness is service orientation. This is where everything that you do as a leader is about serving someone else.
So, there you have it — three key elements of social awareness: empathy, situational awareness, and service orientation. These are the keys to peace and harmony. I'll see you then.
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