For-Profit Businesses
Adding mindfulness and heart to the bottom line
The Great Resignation
Increased complexity, constant multi-tasking and difficulty finding work-life balance are just some of the challenges in today’s workplace. Many leaders and employees suffer from poor concentration, wandering attention in meetings and feelings of running on autopilot.
Low motivation and burnout have too often become a norm of how we work.
In response to these challenges, more and more people are seeking meaningful work beyond a pay-check or the next quarterly earnings report. They want to bring their full selves to work.
This dis-synch between desire for meaningful work and the challenges of the modern workplace is one factor driving the Great Resignation we are seeing all around us. Managing these challenges is central in supporting employee satisfaction and retention, as well as mental health and well-being.
mindfulness: a doorway to transformation
Transformative change cannot be accomplished by people who are distracted, stressed, burnt out or running on autopilot. Change requires team members who are able to be truly present to do the work required.
A key first step for companies looking to shift how they work is to establish personal, team and ideally organization-wide mindfulness programs.
Mindfulness is more than just taking a few quiet minutes breathing. Introducing mindful awareness to our lives can feel like turning a light on in a dark room.
Through mindful awareness, people can start seeing what is really going on in themselves, their team, their clients and the company as a whole.
When we turn on the powerful gift of awareness, we can really start to see what is - in our bodies, our emotions, our minds, our workplaces, our homes, our teams, our families.
Once the light is on, our options for creative action and transformative change vastly multiply - but first we need to turn the light on.
health and resilience
In parallel employees may be feeling exhausted, burnt out, distracted, struggling with work life balance, etc. While mindfulness programs can support with this, a wider health and resilience program is very valuable too.
It’s important to remember people are more and more distracted and worn down. Most of us live in cities with less connection to nature and our food sources. We’re juggling a thousand things and running on overload. Applying mindfulness is key, but we need also to spend time looking at our overall resilience - our basic health, our relationship to our bodies and planet. This is key to give us the resilience and strength for the challenge of transformative work.
integrating mindfulness: the next step:
A foundation of mindfulness allows us to go to the next growth edge: expanding our view to look deeper at values and impact. Using the power of mindfulness to support more awareness and conscious choices. To engage more generatively with workers, clients, stakeholders and everyone affected by the organization’s activities.
The journey of integrating mindfulness in about bringing full presence, curiosity, and compassionate inquiry to all aspects of our lives:
Our environment, space around us, our bodies, our planet
Our habits, structures, routines, rhythms, use of time
Our listening, speaking, conversations, communication styles
Blocks or struggles around time management, productivity, money, health, vision/values, etc
How we relate to others and build team and community
“Before we can truly work together in a conscious organization, we need to be able to relate consciously and compassionately with other people, simply as one human being to another.”
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