FYI

When others experience failure, empathize. You should use this tip to help those who are down or hurt. When you tune into someone, you feel them. With an empathetic manner, you can relate or understand someone's particular situation, attitude, or emotion. It is natural to respond to other's emotions. In what way will you respond?

Motion Emotion

Today we continued to work on our powerpoint presentation showing animal cruelty to invoke empathy. Emotion plays an important role within our lives. We communicate on a daily basis and through this emotion, we can understand a person's demeanor or attitude. We are able to to help others by recognizing and sharing this emotion. It is important to be empathetic and to share those observed feelings that may be present within another.

"Literacy"

Empathy, the ability to recognize and share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) that are being experienced by another; to emotionally put yourself in another person's place. How well can you read people?
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Connect

Organizations such as ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals) provide services and connect abused animals to appropriate families. They investigate and can make arrests for crimes against animals from anywhere within the western hemisphere. Such organizations display pictures of sad and abused animals in order to win over the hearts of future adopters. Websites use quotes such as, "Abandoned and neglected pets need your help today" to entice families to adopt these abused animals.

Red Cross

We started researching groups such as the American Red Cross. This volunteer led humanitarian organization provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education.

Smile for the Camaras

We took pictures of multiple emotions and uploaded them to powerpoint. In order to display empathy, these pictures will be presented and will represent certain emotions. Facial expressions and body language are key factors when determining another's mood, emotions, or feelings.

Talk to Chuck: Social Media

The Charles Schwab Company has many offices and multiple departments, which need to be unified. The main challenge for the company was to get the thousands of employees to connect with the man behind the name, “Chuck." They have a communication platform called, “The Schweb.” It allows leadership teams to share updates and perspectives with everyone in the company. The Schweb highlights news and activities from different departments to include how the employees are dealing with clients and what's on clients' minds. It's a simple way of demonstrating how everyone is living within the brand. Sharing ideas and networking across the company facilitates better interactions with the clients. It is a way to connect the front line with the back line.

12k

Recently the Dow Jones Industrial average has clipped the 12,000 mark after a loss of more than 8,000 points over the past two years due to the home and credit crises. The Dow Jones is a computed average of 30 stocks to show a general trend of the market for investors, traders, and sellers. Strong economic data has been the driving force of the market's success and bulls are thriving as a result. Many still doubt the strength of the economy and expect volatility in the weeks ahead due to problems overseas such as the dilemma in Egypt and the current job crisis here in the US.