empathy - CMGuide

Recognising When You’re Projecting Your Own Feelings onto Others

It’s genuinely easy to assume others feel what you feel. Here’s how to recognise when you’re projecting rather than accurately reading someone else.

Sometimes the most caring response is genuine space, not conversation. Here’s how to recognise which one a colleague actually needs.

Genuine empathy for one person can quietly tip into unfairness toward someone else. Here’s how to recognise this and navigate it well.

Genuine support and enabling poor behaviour can look similar in the moment. Here’s how to recognise the real line between them.

A colleague going through genuine personal difficulty needs support that respects their real boundaries. Here’s how to offer it well.

Sympathy and empathy can feel similar but produce very different support. Here’s the genuine difference and why it matters at work.

Empathy doesn’t require agreement, but the two can feel confusingly entangled. Here’s how to genuinely empathise while still disagreeing.