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3 Ways Great Leaders Practice Compassion

4 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari and a co-speaker share three concrete ways leaders show compassion: ask team members how you can support or challenge them at the start of meetings, take on difficult tasks yourself to show commitment, and set boundaries with kindness. They call this using a compassion lens to help people feel seen.

Go start a meeting and ask people how they can be supported or challenged. In a routine, go do something that's challenging, but actually is required of you as a leader. So go set a boundary, but do it with kindness and respect and treating the other person with dignity.
Do all of that by putting your compassion lenses on and really noticing different way of showing up and where your opportunities are for bringing more compassion into the dialogue.
And all of a sudden you're connecting to people on deeper levels, on levels that are aligned with all of our experience. And it just, you know, people feel that. People feel seen, they feel heard.