EP 434: Getting in touch with your natural intelligence for leadership with Rosie Tomkins

Build a Better Agency Podcast

You’ve probably heard of IQ, EQ, or even SQ (spiritual intelligence), but have you heard of NQ? For those new to the term, it’s natural intelligence, or our ability to tap into our inner wisdom to guide us in our decision-making in the most high-stakes situations.

In life and leadership alike, we tend to let our ego get in the way of our decision-making. It’s normal, but it’s not often helpful for reaching our goals or leading our teams effectively. Instead, we should be listening to our natural intelligence to guide our leadership decisions.

This is how animals survive in the wild. They don’t have the ability to overthink or hide away from a challenge like humans can. Instead, they innately know how to act in order to stay alive or lead their pack to victory.

If we approach leadership in a similar manner, we can access a side of our leadership abilities we might not have known we had. To access it, all we have to do is learn to observe nature and understand our own gut reactions to survival moments. Join us to learn more about finding our personal natural intelligence and how to apply it to agency leadership.

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What You Will Learn in This Episode:

• What is NQ?
• How to apply natural intelligence to your business leadership
• The obstacles to us tapping into NQ
• To tap into natural intelligence, you must know yourself
• Gaining self-insight and peer insight as a leader
• What horses can teach us about rotational leadership
• Coaching NQ abilities out of your leadership teams
• Trusting your gut and getting over the fear of judgment from peers
• The different benefits of prey, predator, freeze, and flock mode in business
• Why having the ability to access different modes can be beneficial in agency leadership