Description
Manage stress and boost your productivity at work using mindfulness
Mindfulness at Work Essentials For Dummies explores the many benefits of utilising mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals and businesspeople of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills. You'll discover the key concepts of mindfulness and quickly grasp how its implementation in the workplace is a win-win for you, your team and your organisation as a whole.
Innovative companies like Google have made mindfulness in the workplace a hot topic—and for good reason. Mindfulness can be hugely beneficial on a personal level, as it has been proven to enhance one's effectiveness and ability to live in the present moment. These skills and techniques are equally valuable in the workplace, leading to improved working behaviour and better team building. With this handy guide, you'll discover all the tips and tricks to incorporate — and benefit from — mindfulness in the workplace.
- Provides an introduction to mindfulness and how it can help improve your working behaviour
- Offers useful tips on incorporating mindfulness into your working day
- Demonstrates how organisations can benefit from implementing mindful approaches to work
If you're a self-motivated and open-minded business professional looking to expand your knowledge base and effectiveness in the workplace, Mindfulness at Work Essentials For Dummies will help you implement the practice of mindfulness at work — and become a better leader, mentor or coach.
Chapter
Finding Out Why Your Brain Needs Mindfulness
Discovering your brain’s hidden rules
Recognising that you are what you think
Exploring your brain at work
Starting Your Mindful Journey
Being mindful at work yourself
Overcoming common challenges
Creating a mindful workplace
Living the dream: Mindfulness at work
Chapter 2: Exploring the Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace
Discovering the Benefits for Employees
Increased mental resilience
Honed mental clarity and focus
Looking at the Organisational Benefits of Mindfulness
Happier, more engaged employees
Chapter 3: Applying Mindfulness in the
Gaining Perspective in the Modern-Day Workplace
Applying mindfulness in changing times
Adjusting Your Mental Mindset
Treating thoughts as mental processes
Approaching rather than avoiding difficulties
Fitting Mindfulness into Your Day
Starting the day mindfully
Ending your day mindfully
Developing Your Mindfulness Practice
Key mindfulness practices
Chapter 4: Boosting your Mental Resilience
Recognising the Need for Resilience at Work
The modern-day stress epidemic
Understanding fight or flight
Mindful Working to Enhance Resilience
Managing multiple, conflicting demands
Dealing with distractions
Mindfully Managing your Emotions
How your body affects your mind
Trying the ‘Managing emotions mindfully’ exercise
Dealing with difficult people
Mindful Ways to Maintain Peak Performance
Discovering the neuroscience of kindness and compassion
Last, but by no means least
Chapter 5: Practising Mindfulness in the Digital Age
Choosing When to Use Technology
Recognising the pros and cons of technology
Rebalancing your use of technology
Using a smartphone mindfully
Engaging with social media mindfully
Chapter 6: Using Mindfulness to Assist Different Business Functions
Mindfulness for Human Resources
Managing downsizing and redundancies mindfully
Dealing with discipline and grievances mindfully
Increasing employee engagement
Mindfulness for Occupational Health
Improving staff wellbeing with mindfulness
Tackling stress with mindfulness
Reducing sickness absence with mindfulness
Mindfulness for Service Delivery and Customer Service
Maintaining customer focus
Dealing with customer feedback mindfully
Communicating mindfully with customers
Mindfulness for Marketing and PR
Keeping in tune with consumer and cultural trends
Chapter 7: Integrating Mindfulness with Coaching
Discovering Mindful Coaching
Seeing mindfulness as a coaching toolbox
Applying mindfulness in coaching
Using Practical Ways to Integrate Mindfulness into Coaching
Increasing insight and clarity
Chapter 8: Commissioning Mindfulness Training in the Workplace
Bringing Mindfulness Training to Work
Starting with the end in mind
Choosing from the menu of possibilities
Considering options for introductions and pilots
Taking care of the practicalities
Working in partnership and managing expectations
Identifying follow-up strategies
Different Approaches to Teaching Workplace Mindfulness
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindfulness At Work Training (MAWT)
Search Inside Yourself (SIY)
Hiring an Experienced Mindfulness Practitioner
Clarifying organisational experience
Agreeing on what’s possible
Chapter 9: Thriving on the Challenges of Leadership
Understanding Different Leadership Theories
Thriving Rather Than Surviving
Being a More Mindful Leader
Practising Mindful Leadership
Communicating ideas and expectations
Mindfully encouraging others to speak up and contribute
Solving problems mindfully
Creating a positive and inspiring workplace culture
Chapter 10: Leading People, Change and Strategy
Leading Mindfully when Change is the Norm
Creating Strategies that Allow the Organisation to Flourish
Identifying organisational culture
Creating a collective vision for the future
Developing strategies mindfully
Embedding new values and behaviours
Creating a More Mindful Organisation
Looking beyond the bottom line is good for the bottom line
The return on investment (ROI) of mindfulness
Mindfully improving employee engagement and retention
Chapter 11: Ten Ways to Mindfully Manage Work Pressures
Mindfully Coping with Inappropriate Work Demands
Mindfully Dealing with a Lack of Control over Your Work
Mindfully Managing a Lack of, or Inappropriate, Support
Mindfully Managing Difficult Working Relationships
Mindfully Gaining Clarity about Your Job Role
Mindfully Navigating the Bumpy Road of Frequent Change
Mindfully Dealing with Difficult One-to-One Meetings
Mindfully Coping with the Threat of Redundancy
Mindfully Coping with Redundancy Survivor Syndrome
Using Mindfulness to Reduce Stress
Mindfulness At Work Essentials For Dummies
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