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About Dr. Hendrie Weisinger - Psychologist and Expert on Emotional Intelligence:

Over the past twenty years, Dr. Hendrie (Hank) Weisinger has developed and implemented programs that have helped some of the most prestigious corporations, government agencies, and organizations operate more efficiently and effectively. Dr. Weisinger's unique understanding of how people function and relate in organizational settings will help your group: improve productivity, speed adaptation to change, develop leadership skills, stimulate communication and cooperation, respond effectively to competition, encourage innovative thinking, improve retention of key employees, and create an enthusiastic work environment.

Dr. Weisinger has developed a breakthrough program based on his pioneering work in the application of Emotional Intelligence. Giving and taking criticism, managing emotions and responding effectively to the feelings and emotions of others, motivating oneself and others, and resolving conflict are all emotional intelligence skills.

Dr. Weisinger is a licensed psychologist with extensive experience in clinical, counselling and organizational psychology. He is a leading authority on the application of Emotional Intelligence, an expert in Anger Management and the originator of the highly regarded techniques of Criticism Training.

Dr. Weisinger is the author of Emotional Intelligence at Work, Anger at Work, The Critical Edge, Dr. Weisinger's Anger Workout Book, and Nobody's Perfect. He has made over 200 appearances on major TV, news, and information programs, including The Today Show, Oprah, and Phil Donahue. His work has been featured in numerous newspapers and national magazines, including The New York Times Sunday Business Section, USA Today, and BusinessWeek. His article for The Wall Street Journal, So You're Afraid to Criticize Your Boss, was selected as one of the sixty best articles to appear in the Manager's Column.

Dr. Weisinger currently teaches for a number of executive education and MBA programs at schools including UCLA, Cornell, NYU, University of Washington and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

What Dr. Hendrie Weisinger Talks About:

Emotional Intelligence
The untapped edge for success encompasses abilities such as self motivation, persistence in the face of frustration, mood management, and the ability to empathize, think and hope. These factors are now considered to have greater impact on individual and group performance than traditional measures of intelligence, such as IQ.

Hank Weisinger's emotional intelligence program - the first of its kind - helps people at all levels master core competencies that improve productivity and promote job enjoyment, including: high self-awareness; ability to manage emotions; self motivation; empathy and relationship skills.

Emotional Intelligence — Right Now!
You and those you work with might not have been alive the last time the working world was in such a personalized emotional economic environment. Chances are high, for example, that you know someone who has lost a job, and many of your clients have lost a tidy portion of their retirement fund. Financial Services, Auto, Banking, Retail, Airline, Construction already know that frustration, anger, anxiety and fear are here, and if many leading economist are correct, dejection, despair, and depression are on the way. It looks like Emotions of distress are here for a while. How do you handle it?

In times like these, your technical expertise may keep you and your organization afloat, but if you want to do better than survive, you better start developing and applying your emotional intelligence. In today’s environment, it is the safest investment you can make and one that will pay huge dividends.

In this presentation, Dr. Weisinger provides audiences with two skills that can only be described by words like, essential, crucial, critical, and vital. First is how to effectively manage the now emotions that dominate the psyche of advisors and clients: frustration, anxiety, anger, fear, dejection despair. Managing these emotions is crucial because there is significant data that their prevalent common denominator is they lower success results, at home and at work. Furthermore, under the rubric of emotional contagion, it is now known that emotions are like a social disease, they spread among individuals. In the case of the now emotions, the results are disastrous. At home, an anxious and depressed couple and family. At work, an anxious, frustrated, angry, depressed organization. Making the situation even direr is that these emotions all erode client-advisor trust, the foundation for all successful client-advisor relationship.

Utilizing his recognized pioneering and innovative clinical work in the area of emotional management, Dr. Weisinger presents hands on empirically based practical actions that enable the audience to understand what these emotions signify and use the psychological principles that serve to manage them. Specific actions for managing each emotion will be presented in a variety of contexts, such as dealing with angry and fearful clients, bouncing back quickly from setbacks, to managing an anxious team.

Dr. Weisinger helps advisors implement the second step by teaching them how to create emotions for success:

• Confidence: The degree to which you believe an expected outcome will occur
• Optimism; The feeling and perception that the future is positive
• Tenacity; The feeling and belief that persistence will yield positive results
• Enthusiasm: A positive state of excitement

These are 4 specific emotions that consistently enhance results, be it a team project, a round of golf, or giving a presentation. More importantly, they are a COTE of armor to anxiety, frustration, anger, dejection, thwart off depression, and allow you to be productive in turbulent times.

Instinctual leadership
This is a presentation for executive level audiences who seek cutting edge, academic perspectives and breakthrough skills for more effective leadership. The concept derived from Dr. Weisinger’s new book The Genius of Instinct, presents a dramatic new way of understanding the most important attribute for any organization that desires to thrive, be it a family, company, or country: leadership.

Steeped in the evolutionary sciences, this provocative perspective is based on the growing view that the brain is like a tool box with a collection of instinctual tools. These tools have been designed through the principles of evolution and natural selection to help you solve adaptive problems—problems that every member of every species of every generation-past, present, future- must solve if it is to survive and ultimately thrive. Using your instinctual tools to solve adaptive problems is the essence of instinctual leadership, and according to natural selection, those individuals who can apply their instinctual tools most broadly are the most effective leaders and thereby increase their organization’s ecological niche-the role it plays in its environment, be it financial services, auto, health care, consumer electronics, retail, or service. Furthermore, it will be illustrated that being disconnected from these instinctual tools spells leadership disaster.

Mixing clinical expertise with evolutionary sciences, Dr. Weisinger will illustrate numerous, innovative ways and applications of using your innate natural leadership instinctual tools that enhances the quality of leadership for each individual and thus enhance their organization’s ecological niche and, in the process, their own ecological niche too.

The Genius of Instinct
You are hardwired to be successful! That’s a bold statement but powerfully backed by the new science of the mind, evolutionary psychology that reveals stunning new lessons about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives from merely surviving to actually thriving in every area of life.

In this provocative, original and ground-breaking presentation, Dr. Weisinger takes these scientific findings, identifies the six most indispensable instinctual behaviors, and illuminates the necessity of following their instinctual command for thriving. Mixing clinical expertise with evolutionary science, Dr. Weisinger explains exactly how people can reconnect with these hard-wired behaviors and wisely re-establish the links between our everyday actions and these powerful natural forces. In a step by step and highly learnable fashion, he teaches his audience how to strategically use the genius of their instinctual tools, and in doing so, they can thrive personally and professionally.