Mark Gorkin

In these economically challenging times, today’s leader must know how to step up – to genuinely connect and inspire. Let Mark Gorkin, aka “The Stress Doc” ™, help you discover your “Passion Power” and “TLC Leadership – Inspiring Trust, Laughter and Creative Collaboration” even during challenging times. Through compelling presentation along with fun-filled interactive team exercises, Gorkin provides energizing tools and techniques for building individual responsibility and resiliency, team camaraderie and achieving high performance motivation and morale along with productive risk-taking in the face of uncertainty. Transform stress and conflict into Leadership TLC.

You will also learn to recognize the signs of stress, channeling stress and frustration into safe sharing, cooperative and creative action, and group bonding. Gorkin will show you how to more effectively give and receive feedback and disarm power struggles while building trust. Discover the Stress Doc’s cutting edge model and method for reducing stress, expanding “passion power” energy, generating motivation, and creating team synergy.

OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

1. Quickly identify change stress/burnout warning signs and learn psychological-interpersonal skills for dealing with loss and change to maximize personal and professional recovery and resilience

2. Learn to defuse power struggles, productively engage conflict while building trust by asking empathic-courageous questions and by strengthening collaborative problem solving skills

3. Discover two pillars of resiliency: “Capacity for Risk-Taking” and “Turning On Your Passion Power” – being “Purposeful-Provocative-Passionate-Playful”

4. Engage in “whole brain” groups exercises that transform transition-leadership tension into productive sharing, greater understanding, creative problem solving, team building and bonding, and healing laughter.

OUTLINE

A. Stress and Burnout Overview
1. Three "B" Stress Barometer Exercise -- Rapidly, Purposefully and Playfully Recognize Transition Stress Signals
2. Burnout Definition and Four Stages of Burnout

B. Dealing with Loss and Change
1. The Vital Lesson of “The Four ‘R’s”
2. Six “F”s of Loss and Change and Understanding "Danger and Opportunity" of Transition

C. Engaging Power Struggles
1. Power Struggle Exercise
2. Intervention Example – defusing struggles by asking “good questions,” being open and building trust

Break

D. Responsible and Resilient Risk-Taking: Assessment, Atmosphere and Application
1. Risk-Taking Questionnaire and Coaching Exercise
2. Four Steps of Creative Risk-Taking and Traits of Risk-Takers

E. Confronting the Intimate FOE
1. Transforming Fear of Exposure into the Fun of Embarrassment Exercise
2. Benefits of Embracing Embarrassment

Lunch

F. Four “P” Passion Power Model & Exercises
1. Passion Power Model: Interaction of Mind and Mood
2. Four 'P" Problem Solving Interventions Exercise

G. Identifying Barriers and Challenges to Individual and Team Resiliency
1. 3-D – Team Discussion, Drawing and Diversity – Exercise
2. Gallery Walk Around, Show and Tell and Consultation Problem Solving Group Exercise -- bringing
3. "R" Leadership-Partnership into the Workplace

H. Take Home Summary and Synthesis
1. Skills, Structures and Strategies for Bringing "Passion Power" and Building TLCs
2. Serenity, Secret of Wisdom and Shrink Rap ™

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