Douglas E. Noll: How He Left $10 Million on the Table and Now Listens Other People Into Existence

In this episode, I talk with peacemaker Douglas E. Noll about the foundational role of emotional competency and listening. While these 21st-century skills have never been addressed at school, they are crucial in business and the key to more success, happiness, and personal satisfaction in all of your relationships. Do you want to know how? Tune in now.

About Doug

Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA left a successful career as a trial lawyer to become a peacemaker. His calling is to serve humanity, and he executes his calling at many levels. He is an award-winning author, teacher, trainer, and highly experienced mediator. Doug’s work carries him from international work to helping people resolve deep interpersonal and ideological conflicts to training life inmates to be peacemakers and mediators in maximum-security prisons.

On a personal note, Mr. Noll is a jazz violinist, aircraft and helicopter pilot, ski instructor, 2nd-degree black belt, tai chi master, and whitewater rafter. He lives with his wife Aleya Dao in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada south of Yosemite National Park.

In this episode we talk about:

How Doug left a successful career as a trial lawyer to become a peacemaker:
  • How he started with no business plan and no savings as an entrepreneur.
  • The 2 powerful paradoxes that opened his eyes as a Tai Chi Master.
  • How to keep growing & evolving – even at age of 70 –
  • How to become visible and use all of your skills as an entrepreneur.
  How to Master Emotional Competence:
  • What it means to listen others into existence.
  • Developing the emotional competence of your team (and yourself!)
  • How to provide emotional safety as a leader.
  • Learning how to deescalate an angry person in less than 45 seconds.
  • Learn to manage your own anxiety around other people’s emotions.
  • Building trust and support.
  • The 3 steps process to listen someone into existence.
  • The Brain science behind labeling emotions.
  • What Google research reveals about emotional safety & productivity.

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