Compassion and Care is Everyone´s Job

Toni McLelland, Critical Friend for C-Suite Leaders & Boards in Social Causes shares how the social aspect of leadership is the most important one. “Compassion and Care win every time,” says Toni. When she led large teams, she’d spent 80% on supporting people and 20% on doing other things. When you extend compassion to someone you create a relationship. She learned from her early career in criminal justice working with young gang members that extending care and understanding creates safety and healing. Leading with compassion is not always easy. It requires courage. Toni shares how a leader needs to stay in the challenge and not give up, giving people a role model and also helping them through the challenge, even when no one yet knows how it will resolve. Compassion and care fit in every situation. Compassion is about helping others to relieve their suffering.