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Career Disruption Stress or Surviving “The Jack Benny Dilemma” When It Really Is “Your Money or Your Life” This week I was the keynote speaker at the Forty Plus annual dinner (www.40plus-dc.org/), a volunteer-based, Washington, DC, career transit... More...

These days everyone wants to be creative, to "think out of the box." But how do you walk the talk? As a workshop leader who often tries to give organizations a "Jolt of CPR: Being Creative, Passionate and Risk-Taking," let me share one concept that j... More...

Yesterday I had a blast. It only lasted ten-minutes but the ebb and flow of the audience’s riveted attention and hearty laughter produced a slow to fade afterglow. I did some serious shtick on “Practicing Safe Stress for the Holidays” at a holiday ... More...

“You’re being negative!” Recently I led a team building workshop, and that was a federal government Division Director’s reply to my questioning, “Why the ‘Front Office’ meeting had not been working?” Preceding my operational assessment a number of pe... More...

These days everyone wants to be creative, to “think out of the box.” But how do you walk the talk? As a workshop leader who often tries to give organizations a “Jolt of CPR: Being Creative, Passionate and Risk-Taking,” let me share one concept tha... More...

One of the challenges for an Organizational Development Consultant is getting management and employees on the same page, if not singing from the same sheet of music. Sometimes you don’t need management to generate static. Status distinctions within... More...

A friend and career consulting colleague, Martha Collar, macollar@netvigator.com, requested a review of my book, Practice Safe Stress, for Best Practice Magazine (she's editing) – Hong Kong based -- with a circulation of 30,000 (including inflight on... More...

Being a conference or retreat speaker and “Motivational Humorist” sounds like a lot of fun; and it usually is. However, sometimes you are asked to intervene with a group that’s under siege. At these times, the tension and acting out of frustration be... More...

Warning: This satire may be hazardous to the ironically impaired.In this era of organizational restructuring or downsizing, or better still, rightsizing, or most on target, what I call "frightsizing," the challenge for top management is having the s... More...

What does it take to be a creative leader? I definitely have been giving this some thought, developing and increasingly applying three programs in the past two years: “Transforming Change and Conflict into ‘Passion Power’: The Art of Inspiring Leader... More...

Today’s world is 24/7, wired and always on and often cycling between upgrading and reorganizing--if not outsourcing and downsizing. And as company mantras become “do more with less,” it’s no surprise that more and more people are struggling with job ... More...

So why do we fight over words? By Jerry Green, Mediator Research suggests that body language may comprise most of our understanding of one another…. So why do we fight over words? When we hear something that we disagree with, we are di... More...

In an uncertain, rapidly changing climate, goals often are as slippery and mercurial as they are critical. They often defy short-term definition let alone engagement and capture. And survival reality is simple, if not stark: key aspects of convent... More...

By Mark Gorkin, LICSW, the “Stress Doc” ™ While exploring a theme during an association committee meeting, two thought-provoking questions were posed: What is “professional wisdom” and how does one gain the same? The Webster’s Third New International... More...

Hi,In light of this week's Wash, DC Metrorail tragedy, a number of folks in federal agencies responded positively to my idea for an article providing strategic tips for managing the emotional aftershocks and to help the community heal.Mark Gorkin, LI... More...

Hi,Here's a concise essay on how a clever and courageous leader was able to give her partners palatable critical performance feedback by presenting a message that was both meaningful and mirthful. Of course, some foundation of mutual respect and TLC ... More...

The same day that the right wing terrorist invaded the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and killed a security guard, my girl friend encountered a much more prosaic form of anti-Semitism. And while her experience was not in any way life-threatening,... More...

During a Practice Safe Stress and Team Building workshop for legal assistants and support staff of a major law firm, a paralegal, with an edge in his voice, recalled a frustrating encounter with one of the firm’s partners. Apparently, misinformation ... More...

There are several ways to enhance listening effectiveness, especially when engaged in a complex or emotional exchange. A fundamental technique is "Active Listening." Here's an acronym to help transform less than attentive or self-centered listening i... More...

Hi,Well, I'm entering the 21st cyber century, if not kicking and screaming...certainly, belatedly blogging. Actually, I must give credit to Brenda Pianezza, HR.com, Website Development and Content Manager, bpianezza@hr.com. She wants to posts my writ... More...

Laughing in the Face of Layoffs"How can the person displaced or downsized see both the danger and opportunity in career change or disruption? Can we learn, even, to both cry and laugh at this career crisis turning point?"To be able to see the comic ... More...

Strategic Confrontation of a Company CEOQ. I am the HR Director at a small company. I have been asked by the head of our small company to counsel my boss, who is the company CEO, about his tendency for insulting employees and making racist comments ... More...

A playful challenge from an audience member helps bring to life the importance of searching for and developing your passion, whether in the face of skepticism, long periods of self-doubt and/or having to accept (even better, learn to play with and la... More...

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Career Disruption Stress or Surviving “The Jack Benny Dilemma”

Transforming the Conventional into the Creative: Discovering and Designing the "Bright Crystals" of Contradiction

Practicing Safe Stress for the Holidays: "Fast Food for Thought" from the Stress Doc ™

The Dangers of Being Too “Positive” in a Team Building Process: Or Don’t Just “Have a Nice Day!”

Transforming the Conventional into the Creative: Discovering and Designing the "Bright Crystals" of Contradiction

One Small Step for Employee-Management-Community Consensus Building: Affirming the Purpose and Power of Admin Professionals

Practice Safe Stress with the Stress Doc ™: Non-Traditional Book Review

3-D Group Combat-Intervention at the Burning Out and Burning Up Battlefronts: Discussion-Drawing-Diversity to Disarm Conflict and Build Camaraderie

"Cutting-Edge" Strategies for Reorganizing or Downsizing: The Stress Doc's Top Ten Tips for Tip-Top Management

The Dynamics of Creative Leadership-Partnership: Forces and Concepts for Transforming Change and Conflict into Creativity and Community

Combat Strategies at the Burnout Battlefront

So why do we fight over words?

Logical and Psychological Approaches to Goal Setting

The Definition and Evolution of Professional Wisdom: The Paths and Processes of Mentoring and Meandering

The Post-Metro Malaise: Strategic Steps for Managing Post-Trauma Aftershocks

Transforming Critical Feedback into Purposeful Play

Confronting Prejudicial Comments in the Workplace and Reader Responses

Transforming Conflict: Replacing Blaming "You"s with Tactfully Assertive "I"s

The Science and Art of Active Listening: The Stress Doc's CPRS Method

Welcome and Four "R"s of a PROductive Relationship

Laughing in the Face of Layoffs

Strategic Confrontation of a Company CEO

Discovering Your Passion

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