In the last post, I wrote about the halo effect. In this post, I leave the reader with a few notes regarding empathy - a skill essential these days when emotions are running high due to the influx of information that is not always easy to digest.

Many of us have added developing skills to work with ChatGPT (Open.ai’s conversational interface to its Large Language Model GPT). What are these skills? How can we develop them. Here is the approach we are using at Ibbaka.

Categorization is a fundamental cognitive ability - something that is critical in almost any human thought. Deeply rooted in philosophy, it is present in nearly every human activity. We love to organize things, sort them and apply labels to every box. How are we going to categorize skills?

In a stressful time, one of the most important critical skills is play! Play is also important to many other things, from learning and innovation to team building and bonding. Let’s use this time of social isolation to build some play into our lives. Play can be both a foundational skill and a social skill.

Social skills become foundational skills in the operating room setting. A calm and reassured patient helps people apply their technical skills.

Empathy is an important part of everything from design thinking, to leadership, to mentoring and sales. Is it a skill or a trait? Can it be developed?