Book description
Master your mind, manage stress and boost your productivity!
Mindfulness at Work For Dummies provides essential guidance for employees at all levels of an organization who are seeking more focus and clarity in their work. It explains how mindfulness can help employers wishing to implement mindful practices into the workplace, and provides leaders and mentors within an organization with the tools they need to become more effective leaders and coaches. The audio download contains guided mindfulness exercises and meditations suited to workplace scenarios, a core feature of mindfulness programmes.
Mindfulness at Work For Dummies includes:
An introduction to mindfulness, and how it can help improve working behaviour
An explanation of how the brain retains new mindful working patterns... with a bit of practice!
Useful tips on incorporating mindfulness into your working day
How organisations can benefit from implementing mindful approaches to work
Guidance for leaders on how mindfulness can help develop their leadership qualities
Table of contents
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- Introduction
- Part I: Getting Started with Mindfulness at Work
- Chapter 1: Exploring Mindfulness in the Workplace
- Chapter 2: Exploring the Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace
- Chapter 3: Applying Mindfulness in the Workplace
- Part II: Working with Mindfulness
- Chapter 4: Practising Mindfulness Day to Day
- Chapter 5: Boosting your Mental Resilience
- Chapter 6: Discovering Mindfulness At Work Training
- Chapter 7: Applying Mindfulness At Work Training
- Chapter 8: Practising Mindfulness in the Digital Age
- Part III: Mindfulness for Organisations
- Chapter 9: Improving Team Performance with Mindfulness
- Chapter 10: Using Mindfulness to Assist Different Business Functions
- Chapter 11: Integrating Mindfulness with Coaching
- Chapter 12: Commissioning Mindfulness Training in the Workplace
- Part IV: Leading with Mindfulness
- Chapter 13: Thriving on the Challenges of Leadership
- Chapter 14: Leading without Boundaries
- Chapter 15: Leading People, Change and Strategy
- Part V: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Be More Mindful at Work
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Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Improve Your Brain with Mindfulness
- Increase the Strength of Your Brain
- Alter the Structure of Your Brain
- Improve Your Ability to Learn
- Gain More Cognitive Control
- Improve Your Health and Well-Being without Going to the Gym!
- Live Life with Less Fear
- Make Yourself Happier
- Regulate Your Emotions More Effectively
- Improve Your Life without Even Trying
- Improve Your Attention Span
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Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Mindfully Manage Work Pressures
- Mindfully Coping with Inappropriate Work Demands
- Mindfully Dealing with a Lack of Control over Your Work
- Mindfully Managing a Lack of, or Inappropriate, Support
- Mindfully Managing Difficult Working Relationships
- Mindfully Gaining Clarity about Your Job Role
- Mindfully Navigating the Bumpy Road of Frequent Organisational Change
- Mindfully Dealing with Difficult One-to-One Meetings
- Mindfully Coping with the Threat of Redundancy
- Mindfully Coping with Redundancy Survivor Syndrome
- Using Mindfulness to Reduce Stress
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Chapter 19: Ten Ways to be Mindful in a Minute
- Start Your Day with an Energising, Mindful Shower
- Begin with a Mindful Moment
- Enjoy a Mindful Coffee
- Use your Phone to Become More Mindful
- Eat Lunch Mindfully
- Be Mindful of Sounds
- Appreciate the Good
- Notice the Interplay between Your Thoughts, Emotions and Physiology
- Become More Body Aware
- Move Mindfully
- Chapter 20: About Ten Resources for Further Study
- Part VI: The Appendixes
- About the Authors
- Cheat Sheet
- More Dummies Products
Product information
- Title: Mindfulness at Work For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118727997
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