Description

For leaders wanting to use proven mindfulness strategies and tools to unlock top performance and results.

The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness is a highly practical guide to help you focus your attention on the present so you and your organisation can perform more effectively. With emphasis on the “why” and the “how” of mindfulness, you’ll discover how to reap the performance benefits and also learn how to use mindfulness to become an emotionally agile leader.

Through a combination of ground rules, practical exercises, case studies and no-nonsense advice, you’ll discover how mindfulness can help you and your organisation to:

• Improve wellbeing and resilience
• Improve relationships
• Improve collaboration
• Improve creativity and innovation
• Improve decision making and problem-solving

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Practical applications
• 1 The mindful leader
• 2 Problem solving and decision making
• 3 Creativity and innovation
• 4 Relationships and collaboration
• 5 Emotional agility
• 6 Inner confidence and self-esteem
• Part 2 Personal applications
• 7 Self-care
• 8 Emotional resilience and well-being
• 9 Be aware of your limitations
• Part 3 Mindful growth
• 10 Inspiration and growth
• 11 Maintaining a work–life balance
• 12 Epilogue: beyond mindfulness
• References

Back Cover

Stress is an inevitable part of day to day work. From the sheer volume of work, to complex decisions, and working with others, leaders and employees are not able to work as effectively.

The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness is a highly practical guide to help you focus your attention on the present so you and your organisation can perform more effectively.  With emphasis on the “why” and the “how” of mindfulness, you’ll discover how to reap the performance benefits and also learn how to use mindfulness to become an emotionally agile leader.

Through a combination of ground rules, practical exercises, case studies and no-nonsense advice, you’ll discover how mindfulness can help you and your organisation to:

·    Improve wellbeing and resilience

·    Improve relationships

·    Improve collaboration

·    Improve creativity and innovation

·    Improve decision making and problem-solving

Author

Audrey Tang is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), NLP practioner and FIRO-B coach. Her first book 'Be a Great Manager Now' was published by Pearson in May 2016, and has been translated into Russian for further distributon. She is a training consultant, an accredited speaker – delivering keynotes at National and International conferences and the resident psychologist on The Chrissy B Show (Sky 203).