Developing Mindful Leadership
Organisations like Google, Sony, Goldman Sachs, Aetna, Volkswagen Audi, IF Insurance, and AXA Asia are using mindfulness training for workplace attentional skills and authentic leadership development. It's not about employee stress management or health and fitness. Mindfulness training is proving to be an essential way to improve productivity, creativity and innovation in the workplace. Research into the effects of mindfulness at work shows that t he drivers of real productivity go beyond faster task performance and better information technology. It’s about having a calmer, more open and undistracted mind, greater self-awareness, and an enhanced capacity for self-transformation. Focus, clarity, creativity, compassion, and courage are also the qualities that give leaders the resilience to cope with the many challenges they face and the resolve to sustain long-term success. The real point of leverage is the ability to think clearly and focus on the most important opportunit