9. Employees who practiced
mindfulness reported greater
resilience, wellbeing, immune
response, and job satisfaction
compared to workers who did not
practice mindfulness.
Even short amounts of mindfulness
practice - just four twenty minute
sessions - reduces anxiety, and
improves executive functioning
and working memory.
(Zeidan et al., 2010)(Hulsheger et al., 2012;
Davidson et al., 2003)
Mindfulness practice leads to
better ability to handle
interpersonal stress and create
positive outcomes in difficult
interpersonal situations.
A leader’s greater positive emotions
and emotional intelligence lead to
higher engagement and a 15%
increase in self-reported personal
thriving among direct reports.
(Harter et al., 2003)(Barnes et al., 2007; Carson et al., 2004)
10. “The main business case for
meditation is that if you are fully
present on the job, you will be more
effective as a leader, you will
make better decisions and you
will work better with other
people.”
Bill George,
Harvard Business School Professor,
former CEO of Medtronic
16. Created by the
thought-leaders
in mindfulness,
emotional intelligence
and neuroscience.
Makes deep and
complex
concepts highly
practical
and accessible.
Evidence-based practices for
leaders to grow…
Emphasizes integration
and sustainability of
exercises with daily
work and daily life.
19. Access an optimal state of
mind and build core
emotional intelligence skills.
The SIY Program includes:
• Two-day onsite workshop
• Four weeks of guided
exercises to apply learning
• Final session
(1 hour webinar or
Day of Integration)
The SIY Program
Under the guidance of a seasoned coach, and with a committed practice mindfulness meditation can:
Improve Your Focus — Focus is a trainable skill, and meditation systematically trains you to focus. What’s more, your focus isn’t just better when you’re meditating, but all day long as you go about your business. Mindfulness’s positive effect on concentration has been proven in this long-term study, and this study, and has even been shown to make a big difference in novice meditators after only ten days.
Reduce Your Stress — We’ve all heard that meditation can help you to relax and become less stressed out. It is a proven way to deeply relax. Science shows that it can even make very stressful situations easier to handle. It lowers your cortisol levels—the hormone most responsible for stress. A 2010 meta-analysis of 39 studies found that mindfulness is a useful intervention for treating anxiety and mood disorders.
Enhance Your Empathy — Mindfulness will help you connect to other people. One mindfulness practice is called “loving kindness” meditation, in which you focus on feelings of love and compassion. Experiments show that over time this can dramatically boost your empathy (sense of emotional connection) with other people. Medical students under intense stress report higher levels of empathy when they meditate.
Reduce Your Emotional Reactivity — How long does it take you to recover from an upsetting event? Mindfulness can reduce that time measurably, and get you back on your feet faster after emotional upheavals.
Increase Your Cognitive Flexibility — Tired of being stuck in the same old rut? Mindfulness has been shown to increase “cognitive flexibility,” which means it allows you to see the world in a new way, and behave differently than you have in the past. It helps you to respond to negative or stressful situations more skillfully.
Boost Your Memory — How many facts you can hold in your head at once, what scientists call “working memory” is a crucial aspect of effectiveness in learning, problem solving, and organization. A study of military personnel under stress showed that those who practiced mindfulness experienced a boost in working memory, as well as feeling better than those who didn’t practice. Another study shows that it not only improves memory, but boosts test scores, too. Even practicing mindfulness for as short as 4 days may improve memory and other cognitive skills.
Make You Less Sensitive to Pain — Mindfulness meditation changes your physical brain structure in many ways; one is that it actually increases the thickness of your cortex, which reduces your sensitivity to pain.
Give You a Better Brain — Mindfulness trains the prefrontal lobe area of your brain (it actually gets bigger!), as well as enhancing other areas which give the benefits of an entire package of related functions such as self-insight, morality, intuition, and fear modulation.
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Emotional Intelligence means the ability to identify, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways.
It gives us a range of life-changing skills such as:
• Self- Awareness
• Self- Regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills
Leadership effectiveness: when 75 members of Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Advisory Council were asked to recommend the most important capability for leaders to develop, their answer was nearly unanimous: self-awareness.
Performance–even in technical fields: in roles ranging from executive leadership to management to sales to customer service, Emotional Intelligence predicts job performance, retention, and positive feedback on 360-degree reviews (McClelland, 1999; Boyatzis, 1999).
Happiness & Engagement at Work: Employees with higher EI are more likely to be engaged at work, and leaders with high EI are more likely to create positive team culture (Boyatzis, 2010; Sy et al., 2005).
Journaling & Mindful listening.
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