Leading through Emotional (EQ) and Humor (HQ) Intelligence: The Art of Higher Power Humor ™
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Speaker : MARK GORKIN
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When : Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has blended individual and group therapy/facilitation, public speaking, workshop and webinar leadership, especially in the areas of stress resilience, burnout prevention, and anger/conflict management, as well as creativity and humor, leadership and team building. A nationally-known Motivational Psychohumorist ™, the Doc is a critical incident and trauma/grief/violence prevention consultant, currently working with the NYC-based national EAP, CCA, and the DC-based Human Resources Consulting Firm, PRM. (Mark has done considerable work with a variety of DC-Govt Agencies, especially the DC Regulatory Affairs Agency.)
Mark’s style, substance, and spirit have helped heal and inspire individuals, teams, and organizations for over forty years. Mark presently provides individual and group teletherapy/trauma services at Inner City Family Services, Washington, DC. The Stress Doc has taught Crisis Intervention at Tulane University Graduate School of Social Work, been a Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, led Stress Resilience and Team-Building Playshops on Leadership Retreats for the US Army. He also helped spearhead a mental health education and advocacy outreach program, Be Well Initiative, for the Nepalese Community in the Greater DC area.
His books, Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a Hi-Tech World, also capture the Stress Doc’s wholistic, healing, and humorous approach to recovery and Post-Traumatic Growth!Increasingly, the best leaders are recognizing that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is critical for communicating and engaging with employees. However, in today's TNT– Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven and Distracted World, to truly connect and inspire, leaders also need to tap into a novel intelligence source – Humor Intelligence (HQ). And when combined with Emotional Intelligence, you have discovered The Stress Doc's Higher Power Humor. HPH: 1) captures and sustains people's attention, 2) helps employees feel safe to give honest feedback, 3) builds an environment of trust, 4) projects leaders as role models for authenticity, exploring, and risk-taking, and 5) motivates all towards creative collaboration and "out of the box" problem-solving. In fact, in his research on Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman found that more effective managers employ humor three times more often than less effective counterparts .
Let acclaimed speaker and webinar presenter, Mark Gorkin, the Stress Doc ™, one of a kind Motivational Psychohumorist, facilitate your EQ to HQ upgrade. Don't miss his "Get FIT" -- FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking – Webinar or Workshop. With the Doc's Higher Power Humor, "lighten up yet get real" toolkit, you'll inspire individuals, teams, and systems to: a) laugh at their own flaws and foibles, egos and excesses, b) turn pain and loss, change and conflict into purposeful and passionate, even playful, problem-solving, c) discover how to generate liberating laughs in difficult tasks and challenging times, and d) diversely collaborate and synergize by blending individual creativity and interactive community.
So, seek the higher power of Stress Doc Humor: May the Farce Be with You!
Don't miss your appointment with the Stress Doc.
Areas covered
- Connecting Emotional Intelligence, Humor Intelligence, and Leadership Effectiveness
- Distinguish between Humor and Wit, Hostile and Healing Humor
- Structures, Tools, and Techniques for Becoming a Higher Power Humorist
- Discover the Stress Doc's Compelling Tools: The New KISS and Memorable MISS
- Passion Power Model: Being Purposeful-Provocative-Passionate-PLAYFUL-Philosophical
- Confront Your Intimate FOE: From Fear of Exposure to Fun of Embarrassment
- Humor and the Work Team – Harnessing and Harmonizing Coordination, Morale and Productivity
- Linking Chaos, Conflict, and Creativity and the Functions of Humor
Who Should Attend
This webinar will benefit all levels of employers and leaders in the organization as it strengthens and provides creative thinking and communication tools and techniques. The Stress Doc will also present "How To" Exercises that participants will be able to take back and apply in their companies and organizations.
Why Should You Attend
This topic is for all levels of employees and management. Increasingly, we understand that the keys to organizational productivity, motivation, and morale involve more than Digital Intelligence. We've come to recognize the importance of awareness and communication fueled by Emotional Intelligence. And now, the Stress Doc is taking this creative consciousness/communication skillset to a new level through Humor Intelligence (HQ) that builds on Emotional Intelligence (EQ). EQ x HQ Synergy, especially a leader using Self-Effacing Humor, will enable you to grab people's attention, sustain their engagement, and boost, if not inspire their belief, commitment, and motivation.
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$160.00
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