The Mindful Leader
- 15 Courses | 8h 18m 15s
- 14 Books | 24h 43m
- 6 Audiobooks | 13h 51m 20s
Successful leaders possess individual well-being and foster it within their team. Master strategies to create a culture of empathy and well-being.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
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4m
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Nurturing Your Own Wellbeing as a Leader
As a leader, taking care of yourself is crucial to your success and the wellbeing of you and your team. Prioritizing your self-care and wellbeing can lead to greater clarity, focus, and emotional intelligence. But that's not all; by prioritizing your wellbeing, you'll also create a positive workplace culture that promotes employee wellbeing and helps achieve organizational goals. When you lead from a place of wellbeing, you inspire and motivate your team to do the same, creating a ripple effect that can transform your organization. This course will help you identify the benefits self-care can bring to leaders, implement techniques to develop mindfulness as a leadership trait, identify effective strategies to assess your personal wellbeing, and choose effective self-care strategies to better manage leadership challenges.
6 videos |
31m
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PMI PDU
The Mindful Leader
The business world is changing like never before and the pace of change requires solid, thoughtful leadership. When faced with greater responsibilities and pressures, how do mindful leaders slow down and focus in a 24/7 world? In this course, you'll learn how mindfulness can strengthen your ability to pay attention to what's most important. You'll learn how mindfulness techniques can enhance your effectiveness as a leader and how to develop clarity and focus. Additionally, learn how to: • Become fully present in the moment • spot mindless behaviors that weaken effectiveness • how mindfulness builds effective business relationships with your peers and direct reports
8 videos |
44m
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PMI PDU
Leadership Insights on Mindfulness
Losing focus? Need to stay calm? Mindfulness clears your head of the busyness that keeps you from leading effectively. These techniques for managing distractions, overcoming negativity, and dealing with stress can get you back on track.
18 videos |
53m
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Wellbeing Intelligence: A Skill Set for New World of Work, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors describe wellbeing intelligence as a skill set for managers to improve their own and their employees' wellbeing. They also explain how promoting wellbeing initiatives help organizations succeed.
3 videos |
12m
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Helping Others at Work Without Burning Out, powered by MIT SMR
Workplace helping is essential for organizational success, but it can be difficult to sustain in the face of burnout, time constraints, and other challenges. This course explains how organizations can enhance a culture of self-compassion and provide employees with effective strategies to support each other in healthy and sustainable ways.
2 videos |
8m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Meditation as a Path to Well-being
As a leader-and we are all leaders-it is essential to get to know yourself better. Meditation is an excellent practice for anyone ready and willing to engage with themselves. Meditation is a powerful practice for everyone prepared to develop a more powerful way of presence in the moment and develop ways to deal with stress, distraction, a sense of being lost in the moment, and exhaustion from information overload. In this Leadercamp, certified executive coach Florian Brody explains how meditation practice can train us to give ourselves the permission to "just be." Meditation does not solve problems, but it provides a powerful foundation to realize how to deal with problems. Join Florian Brody for an insightful look at meditation, a deeper understanding of how to increase your self-awareness and manage stress, and a path to add meditation to your daily practice.
1 video |
39m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Midweek Meditation Moments-Body Scan
Join us for an enlightening meditation series designed to help you unlock the extensive benefits that meditation offers. In today's fast-paced world, meditation has emerged as one of the most effective methods for combating stress and anxiety-without any side effects and at little to no cost. If you share any similarities with our instructor, Christine Rabaja, you might initially find the idea of meditation somewhat off-putting. Christine herself used to feel the same way. She discovered that her aversion stemmed from trying too hard to achieve a meditative state. The truth is, meditation should come naturally and with ease. By letting go of undue effort, you can achieve deeper relaxation and reap significant benefits, including reducing stress. What can you expect from this series? August's Midweek Meditation Moments-Body Scan will encourage you to bring focused attention to different parts of the body to consciously relax it and release tension. Allow Christine and Skillsoft to guide you through this transformative experience. Together, we will explore techniques that make meditation accessible and enjoyable, paving the way for a more serene and balanced life.
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22m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Midweek Meditation Moments-Breathwork Meditation
Join us for an enlightening meditation series designed to help you unlock the extensive benefits that meditation offers. In today's fast-paced world, meditation has emerged as one of the most effective methods for combating stress and anxiety-without any side effects and at little to no cost. If you share any similarities with our instructor, Christine Rabaja, you might initially find the idea of meditation somewhat off-putting. Christine herself used to feel the same way. She discovered that her aversion stemmed from trying too hard to achieve a meditative state. The truth is, meditation should come naturally and with ease. By letting go of undue effort, you can achieve deeper relaxation and reap significant benefits, including reducing stress. What can you expect from this series? June's Midweek Meditation Moments-Breathwork Meditation will explore using the breath to slow down the mind and calm the body, bringing temporary stress relief. Allow Christine and Skillsoft to guide you through this transformative experience. Together, we will explore techniques that make meditation accessible and enjoyable, paving the way for a more serene and balanced life.
1 video |
23m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Mindfulness & Mindset
Taking care of ourselves physically and emotionally is crucial to bringing our best selves to work and being there for our friends and family. But we are already so busy; how can we fit any more into our calendars? The good news is that there are some proven strategies to build resilience and well-being. And those strategies don't have to take hours to be effective. In this course, ICF-accredited coach and certified yoga teacher Neelam Sharma will introduce mindfulness techniques to help you build resilience, teach you simple tweaks to your mindset to decrease stress levels, and guide you in creating your Personal Resilience Plan.
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1h
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Leadercamp on-demand: Dual Awareness for Leadership
To be successful in today's fast-paced world, it is essential to lead decisively, collaborate efficiently and welcome in a little ease where we can. In this Leadercamp, Sarah Ratner, former COO/Founding Team of one of Europe's leading FinTechs, and a business and mindfulness coach, will share why dual awareness enabled exponential growth during her decade in tech. Based on her unique blend of experience in mindfulness and as an exec of a multi-unicorn valued start-up, she will help you understand how to cultivate joy and clarity in even the toughest challenges - transforming how you live and work.
1 video |
54m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: Midweek Meditation Moments-Mantra
Join us for an enlightening meditation series designed to help you unlock the extensive benefits that meditation offers. In today's fast-paced world, meditation has emerged as one of the most effective methods for combating stress and anxiety-without any side effects and at little to no cost. If you share any similarities with our instructor, Christine Rabaja, you might initially find the idea of meditation somewhat off-putting. Christine herself used to feel the same way. She discovered that her aversion stemmed from trying too hard to achieve a meditative state. The truth is, meditation should come naturally and with ease. By letting go of undue effort, you can achieve deeper relaxation and reap significant benefits, including reducing stress. What can you expect from this series? October's Midweek Meditation Moments explore mantra meditation-a practice of slowing down mental activity and thoughts by focusing on the silent repetition of a mantra, phrase, or passage to better regulate emotional stress. Allow Christine and Skillsoft to guide you through this transformative experience. Together, we will explore techniques that make meditation accessible and enjoyable, paving the way for a more serene and balanced life.
1 video |
27m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Midweek Meditation Moments-Visualization
Join us for an enlightening meditation series designed to help you unlock the extensive benefits that meditation offers. In today's fast-paced world, meditation has emerged as one of the most effective methods for combating stress and anxiety-without any side effects and at little to no cost. If you share any similarities with our instructor, Christine Rabaja, you might initially find the idea of meditation somewhat off-putting. Christine herself used to feel the same way. She discovered that her aversion stemmed from trying too hard to achieve a meditative state. The truth is, meditation should come naturally and with ease. By letting go of undue effort, you can achieve deeper relaxation and reap significant benefits, including reducing stress. What can you expect from this series? September's Midweek Meditation Moments-Visualization will guide you through visualization meditation, where Christine will talk you through visual prompts that engage your mind in pictures to release your stress. Allow Christine and Skillsoft to guide you through this transformative experience. Together, we will explore techniques that make meditation accessible and enjoyable, paving the way for a more serene and balanced life.
1 video |
29m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Midweek Meditation Moments-Present Moment Awareness
Join us for an enlightening meditation series designed to help you unlock the extensive benefits that meditation offers. In today's fast-paced world, meditation has emerged as one of the most effective methods for combating stress and anxiety-without any side effects and at little to no cost. If you share any similarities with our instructor, Christine Rabaja, you might initially find the idea of meditation somewhat off-putting. Christine herself used to feel the same way. She discovered that her aversion stemmed from trying too hard to achieve a meditative state. The truth is, meditation should come naturally and with ease. By letting go of undue effort, you can achieve deeper relaxation and reap significant benefits, including reducing stress. What can you expect from this series? July's Midweek Meditation Moments-Present Moment Awareness will encourage you to become keenly aware of your immediate surroundings or physical sensations, as this will move you from thinking to sensing, which has a calming effect. Allow Christine and Skillsoft to guide you through this transformative experience. Together, we will explore techniques that make meditation accessible and enjoyable, paving the way for a more serene and balanced life.
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25m
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Overcoming Burnout in the (Nearly) Post-Pandemic Workplace: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Leadercamp Overcoming Burnout in the (Nearly) Post Pandemic Workplace that took place on Tuesday, April 6th at 10am EDT led by Ellen Hendriksen, author and clinical psychologist. Do you feel like a salmon swimming upstream? Do you relate to "I Love Lucy" and the conveyor belt of chocolates? Has "I just can't" become your motto? You're stressed and exhausted. Is it expected, given the past year? A problem that needs attention? Both? Clinical psychologist, anxiety specialist, and author of How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety Dr. Ellen Hendriksen has you covered. This session will address: • The three red flags of burnout • The differences between burnout, anxiety, and depression • How to heal from burnout • The do's and don'ts of self-care for burnout
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Mindful LeaderIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review you'll learn how aware a manager should be of the workplace, as well as alternative ways to look at projects that might offer new insights.
1h 6m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing the Distraction-Focus ParadoxThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that curiosity and concentration are often at odds and discusses why they needn't be.
7m
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing Stress and Emotions When Working RemotelyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review offers eight practical tips for a new-for-many mode of work. As COVID-19 continues to spread around the globe, more and more of us are starting to make changes to the way we work.
3m
By Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy
BOOK SUMMARY
Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment.In Mindfulness, author Gill Hasson reveals how to be present-to live in the moment-each moment of each day. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Gill Hasson
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and VitalityReaders embarking on a course in MBSR will find clear guidance, trainers will gain a valuable tool for their teaching, and anyone experiencing or receiving treatment for challenges of mind, body, or spirit will find practical, inspirational help.
3h 13m
By Linda Lehrhaupt, Petra Meibert
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Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness Can Transform Coaching PracticeWith case studies, resources and tools, this practical book explains the benefits of mindfulness and illustrates how it can be applied with clients and how it can be useful in various situations.
5h 24m
By Liz Hall
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Managing Conflict in Projects: Applying Mindfulness and Analysis for Optimal ResultsThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft Library on 6/14/2024.
2h 34m
By George Pitagorsky
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Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring OthersTrue leadership comes from within, a place of deep calm and focus, that allows you to respond to any situation as it arises. This book opens up a world of meditation exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime and that are the gateway to improved judgment and decision making.
2h 39m
By Maria Gonzalez
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Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery KitchenPresenting principles that can be applied to leadership at any level, this book provides readers with the tools they need to shift awareness, enhance communication, build trust, eliminate fear and self-doubt, and minimize unnecessary workplace drama.
3h
By Marc Lesser
BOOK SUMMARY
Overworked and Overwhelmed: [The Mindfulness Alternative]Overworked and Overwhelmed skillfully introduces the concept of working more deliberately and in a manner that's focused rather than trying to work harder and faster. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Scott Eblin
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Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful LeadersIn Becoming Your Best, author Steven Shallenberger describes 12 guiding principles and explains how they form the foundation of leadership success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Steven Shallenberger
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our PotentialMindset demonstrates the profound effect that mindset can have on the way we react to challenging situations, and ultimately on our ability to grow, learn, and succeed in all areas of life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Carol S. Dweck
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101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success with Less StressLearn how to maximize your time by setting priorities, creating useful schedules, and overcoming procrastination with this book's broad range of strategies and tactics.
2h 58m
By Robert W. Bly
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Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life!Authored by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, this book reveals how the practice of mindfulness--the ability to focus our attention on what is, rather than be distracted by what isn't--can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives.
3h 13m
By Stephen McKenzie
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Overworked and Overwhelmed: [The Mindfulness Alternative]Overworked and Overwhelmed skillfully introduces the concept of working more deliberately and in a manner that's focused rather than trying to work harder and faster. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 9s
By Scott Eblin
Audiobook
Working With MindfulnessThis audio edition will show you how to use Mindfulness training to to help reduce stress, increase productivity, and encourage creative problem solving.
58m 55s
By Mirabai Bush
Audiobook
Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life!This audio edition reveals how the practice of mindfulness--the ability to focus our attention on what is rather than be distracted by what isn't--can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives.
6h 18m 8s
By Stephen McKenzie
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The Leader Architect: The Right People in the Right Places Doing the Right Stuff at the Right TimeThis audio edition is for leaders who want to build and grow a consistently powerful organization that delivers long-term success.
5h 55m 33s
By Jim Grew
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, Revised and Expanded EditionIn the Extraordinary Leader, authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman discuss the competencies and actions that good leaders need to take to become great leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 31s
By Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our PotentialMindset demonstrates the profound effect that mindset can have on the way we react to challenging situations, and ultimately on our ability to grow, learn, and succeed in all areas of life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 4s
By Carol S. Dweck
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Yourself
Landing that management role is quite an accomplishment and you should be proud of yourself. But it's just the beginning your leadership journey. Successfully maintaining and growing a leadership career means developing yourself as well as your team. It's a career-long path of learning and self-discovery. In this Leading Yourself Unit benchmark, you'll be able to assess your current learning and growth mindset, and get a glimpse of areas in which you can develop further self-awareness and self-improvement. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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