Awards & Certifications
Celebrate your employees and earn industry recognition
Empathy Employer workplace recognition program helps attract top talent, boost morale, foster culture, and differentiate your brand
- It is free
- No credit card
- Over 380 nominations received
- It is free
- No credit card
- Over 380 nominations received
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Measure What Matters - Organizational Empathy
People shape the workplace and their collective empathetic attributes influences the total employee experience and workplace culture.
Our research-backed Empathy Attributes Survey, built on a proprietary assessment framework, evaluates key empathetic behaviors across your organization to develop your Empathy Employer Index℠ (EEI) score.
Understanding your organizational empathy helps identify areas for improvement and provides guidance for training initiatives.
Award & Certification Benefits
For organizations that embrace empathy in their culture
Talent Recruitment
Showcase your empathetic culture to attract top talent who value supportive work environments.
Stand out in a competitive job market by demonstrating your commitment to employee well-being.
Team Morale
Boost employee pride and satisfaction by recognizing your organization's efforts in fostering empathy.
Create a positive feedback loop that reinforces empathetic behaviors throughout the company.
Brand Differentiation
Enhance your employer brand identity with a prestigious award that sets you apart from competitors.
Leverage the recognition to build trust with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Industry Leadership
Position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in your industry by prioritizing empathy.
Inspire others to follow suit and contribute to a more compassionate business landscape.
Empathy is the ability to recognize, relate, and respond to individual perspectives, mental states, and feelings of others.
It is the ability to understand and feel what other people are feeling, seeing things from their point of view, and imagining yourself in their place.
Empathy is both a trait and a skill that can be learned and improved with practice.
What is empathy
Cognitive Empathy
The ability to identify how someone else is feeling
Emotional Empathy
The ability to feel someone else's emotion
Compassionate Empathy
The ability to feel what others are feeling and motivated to take action
Industry research and data
C-suite and HR professionals are increasingly recognizing the importance of empathy in the workplace for attracting, retaining, and engaging top talent. A strong employer brand built on a foundation of empathy can strengthen your Employer Value Proposition (EVP), differentiate your organization, and position you as an employer of choice. Developing your employer brand is an investment in your organization’s future. Investing in your employer reputation and brand is an investment in your organization’s future.
Employer Reputation Matters
Over 85% of job seekers actively research a company’s reputation and organizational culture, including awards, certifications, and industry rankings, before accepting a new position.
Demand for Empathy Employer
Over 78% of employees value empathy as a desirable trait in both leaders and their fellow team members. Workplaces that foster empathy tend to experience stronger collaboration, reduced stress, and higher morale.
Impact on Employee Retention
Over 55% of employees left previous jobs due to their immediate supervisor lacking empathy towards their work or personal lives. When employees feel supported and understood, they are less likely to experience stress and burnout.
For organizations that embrace and prioritize empathy
Celebrate your success in 3 easy steps
Nominate Employer
Two or more employees nominate their organization
Survey Employees
The empathy attributes survey is administered in the organization
Earn Certification
Survey data and culture brief are reviewed and certification awarded
Nominate your organization for the Empathy Employer workplace survey, award and certification program
- It is free
- No credit card
- Over 380 nominations received
- It is free
- No credit card
- Over 380 nominations received