Build Your Career with 5 Keys of Emotional Intelligence – Caroline Stokes with Dave Asprey : 855
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, you’ll learn about the different kinds of emotional intelligence and how you can use them to catapult your career and your business
As a human capital entrepreneur, Caroline Stokes specializes in creating emotionally intelligent organizations, starting with leadership.
“I take a broader view and define people leaders as anyone who manages people in any capacity,” she says in her newest book, “Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies To Save Your Company.” “No matter where you stand in your organization’s hierarchy, I challenge you to embrace the mantle of ‘leader.’ Own your influence. Find where you can do the most good and then do it with all your might.”
She’s an executive headhunter, certified executive coach, certified EQ.2.0 practitioner, and CEO of the Canadian company FORWARD. Caroline works with major companies throughout Canada and the U.S. on the need for talent to develop emotional intelligence and resilience in the face of technological advancements.
She blends recruiting and emotional intelligence strategies essential to helping companies identify and tackle elephants and acquire and retain key hires―those unicorns. We talk about how those strategies can help your company stand out, stay resilient, and drive growth.
“When we do executive search, the organizations will ignore those elephants in their organization because they want these really shiny, super smart, highly unobtainable unicorns to join them,” she says, “But they can't because they haven't reworked the systems within their organizations.”
In this episode, Caroline walks us through organizational obstacles, gives easy-to-implement advice, unpacks key emotional intelligence factor, and offers questions for reflection so you can unlock your team's ability to hire the best candidates for the job.
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| 0:00.0 | A State of High Performance |
| 0:05.8 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:09.6 | Today's episode is about EQ, emotional intelligence. |
| 0:16.0 | And our guest is Caroline Stokes, who creates emotionally intelligent companies. |
| 0:21.6 | And she's done this as a certified EQ 2.0 practitioner and CEO of a company here in Canada |
| 0:27.9 | called Forward. |
| 0:29.7 | And she wrote a book called Elephants Before Unicorns, Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies |
| 0:35.0 | to Save Your Company. |
| 0:37.2 | And she works as a leadership coach. |
| 0:39.5 | The reason that I've asked her to come on today is because you most likely aren't running |
| 0:44.8 | a company, although there are a lot of entrepreneurs who listen to the show, but you work in a company. |
| 0:49.8 | And EQ is a skill that all of us are working on because we're in the middle of a time when |
| 0:55.5 | we're in a state of chronic fear, at least if we watch the news, which suppresses EQ. |
| 1:00.5 | So I'm doing this because I want you guys, whether it's about your home life or your work |
| 1:04.0 | life, to know about EQ and know how to raise EQ. |
| 1:08.1 | Caroline, welcome to the show. |
| 1:10.1 | I thank you so much for inviting me. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm absolutely delighted to buy a hack sometime with you. |
| 1:16.3 | You don't sound Canadian. |
| 1:17.3 | Where are you from? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, I am Canadian. |
| 1:19.3 | I have citizenship. |
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