Lead with Empathy | Graeme Lategan
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Lead with Empathy | Graeme Lategan

Empathy is a skill, not a personality trait... and it's the one most professionals were never actually taught.

But the cost of getting it wrong is everywhere: the client who quietly moves on, the good employee who resigns "for no reason," the meeting that falls apart because nobody read the room.

Lead with Empathy: EQ Skills for Managers & Teams, developed in collaboration with expert facilitator Graeme Lategan, teaches you and your team to read what others are really feeling and respond in a way that works. It's a professional development course aligned to Unit Standard 252031 (NQF Level 5), built around real workplace practice, not theory and you'll earn a Training Portal certificate of completion.

If "good with people" has ever felt like something other people just are, this is where you learn to do it deliberately.

 
Emotional Empathy in Practice – What You’ll Learn

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand the psychology and neuroscience behind empathy – and the difference between cognitive and emotional empathy.
  • Read what others are really feeling by picking up on verbal, tonal, and non-verbal cues.
  • Respond in a way that helps – without brushing feelings off or getting pulled under by them.
  • Manage your own emotional responses so you can stay present and steady in difficult moments.
  • Avoid common pitfalls such as confusing sympathy with empathy, over-identifying, and empathy burnout.
  • Apply empathy in real-world settings like team dynamics, leadership, conflict, and customer communication.

How You’ll Learn

  • 🎥 Custom video lessons presented on screen by facilitator Graeme Lategan.
  • 🧩 Interactive activities like branching scenarios and knowledge checks that put empathy into practice.
  • 📝 Reflections and worksheets to apply what you learn to your own workplace.
  • Quizzes and checkpoints to track your progress.
  • 🎓 Customised certificate of completion co-branded with GL Training & Consulting and Training Portal.

👉 Ready to get started?

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