Carole Robin on Connectedness
b'Carole Robin, Ph.D. who taught the legendary Interpersonal Dynamics course (affectionately known by students as \\u201cTouchy Feely\\u201d) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business was the Dorothy J. King Lecturer in Leadership, Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program, and Director of the Stanford Interpersonal Dynamics Programs for High Performing Executives (Executive Program) before co-founding Leaders in Tech, which brings the principles and process of \\u201cTouchy Feely\\u201d to executives in Silicon Valley. Prior to coming to Stanford, she had careers in sales and marketing management and was a partner in two consulting firms. She is the co-author of the highly acclaimed and award-winning book, Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues which contains the lessons of "Touchy Feely" that thousands of students have consistently described for decades as life changing and worth the price of their MBA. She lives in San Francisco, California, with her husband of 36 years.\\n\\xa0\\nCarole had a number of amazing insights during our conversation. Some of them include:\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re all works in progress\\u201d (14:00)\\n\\u201cEvery opportunity with another human being is an opportunity to learn\\u201d (14:15).\\n\\u201cI don\\u2019t think I can be a good teacher if I\\u2019m not constantly a good student\\u201d (15:15).\\n\\u201cThe more I learn as a student, the more motivated I am to teach\\u201d (15:30).\\n\\u201cToo much education is loaded with baggage around teachers being the ones who know and students being the ones who don\\u2019t\\u201d (15:55).\\n\\u201cAsking someone to give you feedback has the potential to make them feel vulnerable\\u201d (20:55).\\n\\u201cI was, and am, unafraid to lean into the discomfort\\u201d (25:00).\\n\\u201cA fundamental premise of learning and growth is that you don\\u2019t learn anything unless you step outside your comfort zone\\u201d (25:20).\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m going to show the world that it doesn\\u2019t matter that I\\u2019m a girl\\u201d (32:30).\\n\\u201cOur tendency when we feel pinched is to say nothing\\u201d (43:00).\\n\\u201cSubstitute the pronoun \\u2018it\\u2019 for \\u2018I,\\u2019 \\u2018you,\\u2019 or \\u2018we\\u2019\\u201d (43:40).\\n\\u201cThere\\u2019s so much trouble in business when it comes to using emotions effectively\\u201d (47:25).\\n\\u201cThere\\u2019s an important place in business for feelings, as long as we learn to express them in ways that are productive, and we learn to use them in the same way that we use thoughts\\u201d (47:45).\\n\\u201cThoughts and feelings are like treble and bass in music\\u201d (48:00).\\n\\u201cWhat is needed for two people to relate and to connect with one another?\\u201d (54:15).\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re all works in progress. Sometimes learning something once isn\\u2019t enough\\u2026 that\\u2019s where we often need someone else\\u201d (1:01:00).\\nAdditionally, make sure to check out Carole on LinkedIn! Moreover, if you want more information about Leaders in Tech, click here, and if you want more information about Carol\\u2019s book, click here.\\nThank you so much to Carole for coming on the podcast!\\nI wrote a book called \\u201cShift Your Mind\\u201d that was released in October of 2020, and you can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, I have launched a company called Strong Skills, and I encourage you to check out our new website https://www.strongskills.co/. If you liked this episode and/or any others, please follow me on Twitter:\\xa0@brianlevenson\\xa0or Instagram: @Intentional_Performers.\\nThanks for listening.'