DECODING AQ - Adaptability For The Future Of Work With Ross Thornley

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Charles M Jones - The Emotion Decoder & Emotion Scientist

Ross Thornley + Special Guests Episode 141

Charles is a Leadership Coach and Trainer on his own specific frameworks.

I'd like you all to join me in welcoming Charles M. Jones, a pioneering emotion scientist with over 40 years of groundbreaking research on flow, empathy, negativity, trauma and stress.

His journey began with a life-changing experience that set him on a path to understanding how we can transform fear and trauma into powerful tools for leadership and personal growth.

Charles has developed innovative frameworks like Emotional Response-Ability™ that are revolutionizing how organizations cultivate empathetic leaders and improve workplace dynamics.

Ross and Charles talk about near death experiences, protecting people, subconscious mind, state of flow, peek experiences, cultivating flow, intuition, natural states, negative emotions, causes of stress, interpreting emotions, needs driving behaviour, subconscious needs, fear, anxiety, valuing assets, optimising emotions, uniting with subconscious, Joe Dispenza, cohesion, creativity producing new options and emotional victimhood. The pair also discuss awareness of subconscious, evaluating disruptive emotions, unlearning, supressing awareness, consciousness, Amanda Blake - Your Body is Your Brain, theory of emotion, trauma, inheriting trauma, asserting your rights, fulfilling needs, team conversations, meeting needs, leaders resolving conflict, feedback, empowerment, anger, Gandhi, peoples rights, courtesy, achieving goals, resolving conflict, tactical empathy, Chris Voss, effective strategies,  reflection, film - 'The Source' and their pets.

Timecodes:

  • 01:33 Charles' life changing experience 
  • 07:08 Charles' first journey into understanding emotions
  • 11:03 Discoveries of outcomes from stimulus in the brain 
  • 18:33 Emotional Intelligence related to people at work adapting to change
  • 27:35 Positive signals blinding us from unexpected change
  • 34:04 Dealing with tension and not realising we are stressed
  • 42:37 Emotional responsibility for self, management and organisations 
  • 50:34 Seven key emotions at work
  • 56:45 Adaptive mastery
  • 01:53 The last time Charles did something for the first time

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