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YOUR PERSONAL BLUEPRINT FOR COMPASSION AT WORK
THIS CHAPTER SUPPORTS YOU in creating your personal blueprint for awakening compassion at work. First, a quick assessment highlights your current level of skill with respect to the four parts of the compassion process—noticing, interpreting, feeling, and acting. Then, guided questions show you how to build your compassion capability.
This tool allows you to customize your blueprint by considering what happens in different work teams, units, or divisions that makes it easier or harder to express compassion across these different groups. Over time, changes in your role or status may shift your compassion capability, so remember that you can always come back and create new blueprints as your work changes.
STEP 1: RATE YOUR SKILLS
Think about the importance of compassion for a specific organization, division, unit, or work group as you read the following statements.
Where are you along each continuum? Rate yourself as far to the right, far to the left, or somewhere in the middle.
STEP 2: IDENTIFY STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES
Strengths: Identify the two lines where you rated yourself farthest to the right—these are your strengths. Do they correspond with noticing, interpreting, feeling, or acting?
Challenges: Identify the two lines where you rated yourself farthest to the left—these are your challenges. Do they correspond with noticing, interpreting, feeling, or acting?
CREATE YOUR PERSONAL BLUEPRINT FOR COMPASSION AT WORK
Note below whether each aspect of the compassion process is a strength or a challenge.
If it is a strength, think about how you can build on it to awaken greater compassion in your work.
If it is a challenge, think about how you might strengthen your capacity in this area.
