Leadership Insights on Mindfulness

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Take Charge of Emotions with the Three Question Approach to Cognitive Reappraisal
  3m 4s
  When negative emotions run amok, three simple questions get you back on track and thinking rationally. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  Everything You Do Has a Wake
  2m 59s
  Your wake (like the wake of a boat) is much more powerful than you realize. “It’s a Wonderful Life” is all about wake. A business where everyone is mindful of their wake has an unassailable competitive advantage, and is a much more enjoyable place to work. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Learn How to Slow Yourself Down
  2m 16s
  Slow yourself down so you can be with others—so others can feel you engaging with them. This will help you get the best out of yourself and others. Self-awareness—mindfulness—comes from practice. For example; spend some time observing a raisin. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  Mindfulness Is a Powerful Tool
  3m 14s
  To manage stress and improve performance, mindfulness is a mighty tool. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Manage Distractions with Mindfulness
  3m 36s
  Have trouble paying attention? Take a mindful pause to reset your brain and get back on task more quickly and more effectively. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  The Zen Garden in the Shark Tank
  3m 2s
  Allison Rimm works in a hospital that has high expectations. Everyone works hard in a stressful environment — a shark tank. To make her office a mindful place; she had a Zen Garden on her desk. Visitors could talk; rake the sand; and move the pebbles. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  How to Stay Calm
  2m 59s
  Performance increases with anxiety but decreases after a peak in anxiety. Recognize the symptoms and apply your own management techniques — less caffeine; more sleep; focus on breathing; no devices before sleeping; etc. Mindfulness also improves performance. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Communicating Using Mindfulness
  2m 41s
  Being mindful, instead of multitasking, makes for everyday communication that improves performance. FREE ACCESS
• 9.  How to Instantly Calm From Anger
  2m 21s
  When you're feeling frustrated or angry; it's time for the cooling breath technique. FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Mindfulness and Improv Overlap
  2m 44s
  Like mindfulness, people who are improvising are focused and present in real time, which allows them to connect emotionally with the individuals around them. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  What is Mindfulness?
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  Mindfulness is the ability to deliberately change an unconscious reaction to a purposeful observation. Improving your mindful capacity increases leadership effectiveness. FREE ACCESS
• 12.  Mindfulness Practices
  3m 27s
  “Mind time” can alter the shape and structure of the brain. Ten minutes can make a difference in your ability to focus, control emotions, empathize, and adapt your behavior. FREE ACCESS
• 13.  The First Mindfulness Capacity: Allowing
  3m 3s
  Mind time practices are meditations developed to teach three key mindfulness capacities. Allowing, the first capacity, prepares you to go to a place of choices and learning. FREE ACCESS
• 14.  The Second Mindfulness Capacity: Inquiry
  3m 8s
  Inquiry stimulates a genuine interest in what is taking place in and around you. By pausing to reflect, you gain insights that lead to greater efficiency and productivity. FREE ACCESS
• 15.  The Third Mindfulness Capacity: Meta-Awareness
  2m 59s
  Meta-awareness practice is a conscious act of tuning into everything that’s happening to and around you by concentrating your energy and focus on the present. Without awareness, change cannot occur. FREE ACCESS
• 16.  Using Mindfulness in Meetings to Enhance Team Performance
  2m 54s
  Teams that practice mindfulness together are calmer, more focused, and collaborate more effectively. Bring mindfulness into team meetings by providing participants with a clear agenda at least 24 hours in advance so that they know what they’ll be talking about. Begin the meeting with a moment to allow everybody to mentally arrive by letting go of things that have happened and by being present with the task at hand. Practice mindfulness during the meeting so that the team stays present with the agenda and with each other. End the meeting with clarity so that the team is clear about the next steps and who’s going to do what. Also, end the meeting a little early so that team members can transition to the next thing they need to do. FREE ACCESS
• 17.  Strengthen Leadership Presence with Mindfulness
  3m 22s
  Leadership presence is a critical attribute for successful leaders, but it can be hard to achieve. Busy and distracted leaders sometimes struggle to be fully present with people even when they spend a lot of time physically with them. And people feel it when their leaders lack presence. Mindfulness training can help leaders to silence their mental chatter when meeting with others and instead display leadership presence. In fact, leadership presence can give better outcomes from less time spent with colleagues. Use mindfulness to recognize when you are actually present, to clear any mental clutter before an important conservation, and to bring more curiosity into your conversations with others. A simple way to enhance your leadership presence is to reduce the use of technology when interacting with others. The mere presence of a smart phone inhibits our ability to truly connect as human beings so put it away when meeting with colleagues. FREE ACCESS
• 18.  Overcoming Your Attention Deficit with Mindfulness
  2m 46s
  The contemporary work environments’ PAID reality – pressure, always on, information overload, distractions – is creating attention deficit for leaders. Research indicates that we are not paying attention almost half of the time. This can be extremely detrimental to leaders’ ability to engage with immediate tasks and with people. The solution is to embrace mindful leadership, which will enable you to train your mind to be more focused and clear-minded. FREE ACCESS