Transforming Change and Conflict into Diverse-Inclusive-Collaborative Teaming: The Art of Resilience, Relating & Risk-Taking

In a 24/7, rapidly changing, always on, "do more with less" world, not surprisingly, individual stress and interpersonal tension can influence the organizational climate, communication, and coordination. The challenge becomes sustaining resilience and morale while forging cooperative and productive working relationships and partnerships. How does a team or a community harness this unpredictable energy to generate a "Helmet's Off" atmosphere where meaningful issues can be identified and engaged in a collaborative spirit? Are you ready to challenge the old saw: "There's no 'I' in team!" Can you disarm constructive power struggles that engage others while affirming your integrity; can you set appropriate boundaries while building trust? During these rapidly changing and turbulent times, let the Stress Doc help you break down barriers and build bridges toward greater team coordination and leadership-partnership learning systems. Learn tools and techniques for generating a more creatively risk-taking, more core collaborative, spirited, and higher-performing workplace.

• Identify key barriers to “Diversity & Inclusion”:  Race/Gender, Grade-Role-Status, Relationship-Building, Access, and Favoritism
• Discover the Five “A”s of Arousing, Connecting & Energizing (ACE) Communication-Leadership:  Attention-Anticipation-Animation-Activation-Actualization
• Review the Stress Doc’s Grief Stages and Eight “F”s of Managing  Loss & Change
• Review the four stages of group dynamics:  “Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing (or Conforming)”; discover tools and techniques for strengthening emotional intelligence
• Explore and apply the “Five Stages of Courageous Resilience and Creative Risk-Taking; make connections to individual leadership, individual performance fears, and team performance
• Discover the Stress Doc “Five ‘P’s of Passion Power Model for Building “Inner“ Diversity and being a more captivating/compelling communicator
• Discover the Doc’s 3-D – Discussion-Drawing-Diversity – Exercise; “take home” imaginative, morale-building, and collaborative problem-solving tools
• Discover the Stress Doc’s “Top Ten” Skills, Structures & Strategies for building and evolving “helmet’s off,” more committed, and collaborative teams

• CEO
• COO
• HR Professionals
• People Manager
• Leaders
• Directors
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Business Owners
• Business Consultants
• Department Managers
• Staff at all Levels

Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer, and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative. Current 247Compliance/Ijona Skills Training Expert; also,Leadership Coach/Training Consultant for the international Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University at the Daytona, FL headquarters. A former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army. Mark also has extensive experience as a Critical Incident Consultant. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High-Tech World. Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR).