Master your mind, manage stress and boost your productivity!
Mindfulness at Work For Dummies provides essential guidance for employees at all levels of an organization who are seeking more focus and clarity in their work. It explains how mindfulness can help employers wishing to implement mindful practices into the workplace, and provides leaders and mentors within an organization with the tools they need to become more effective leaders and coaches. The audio download contains guided mindfulness exercises and meditations suited to workplace scenarios, a core feature of mindfulness programmes.
Mindfulness at Work For Dummies includes:
- An introduction to mindfulness, and how it can help improve working behaviour
- An explanation of how the brain retains new mindful working patterns… with a bit of practice!
- Useful tips on incorporating mindfulness into your working day
- How organisations can benefit from implementing mindful approaches to work
- Guidance for leaders on how mindfulness can help develop their leadership qualities
Shamash Alidina is a professional mindfulness trainer, teacher, and lecturer. He has over 10 years' experience teaching mindfulness in schools and university courses. Juliet Adams designs and delivers professional mindfulness at work training, and co-delivers WorkplaceMT trainer development in the UK and Netherlands.
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Mindfulness at Work 5
Chapter 1: Exploring Mindfulness in the Workplace 7
Chapter 2: Exploring the Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace 29
Chapter 3: Applying Mindfulness in the Workplace 49
Part II: Working with Mindfulness 75
Chapter 4: Practising Mindfulness Day to Day 77
Chapter 5: Boosting your Mental Resilience 97
Chapter 6: Discovering Mindfulness At Work Training 117
Chapter 7: Applying Mindfulness At Work Training 143
Chapter 8: Practising Mindfulness in the Digital Age 169
Part III: Mindfulness for Organisations 187
Chapter 9: Improving Team Performance with Mindfulness 189
Chapter 10: Using Mindfulness to Assist Different Business Functions 207
Chapter 11: Integrating Mindfulness with Coaching 225
Chapter 12: Commissioning Mindfulness Training in the Workplace 243
Part IV: Leading with Mindfulness 261
Chapter 13: Thriving on the Challenges of Leadership 263
Chapter 14: Leading without Boundaries 279
Chapter 15: Leading People, Change and Strategy 295
Part V: The Part of Tens 313
Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Be More Mindful at Work 315
Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Improve Your Brain with Mindfulness 325
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Mindfully Manage Work Pressures 333
Chapter 19: Ten Ways to be Mindful in a Minute 341
Chapter 20: About Ten Resources for Further Study 349
Part VI: The Appendixes 357
Appendix A: Answers to Learning Check Questions 359
Appendix B: Summary of Research 361
Index 365
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