Bringing Mindfulness to Your Workplace
Has your mind ever wandered during a meeting? Would you like to reduce stress and improve focus among your employees? Mindfulness training can help. Companies such as Google, General Mills, and the Huffington Post have implemented mindfulness programs and have experienced significant positive results. “Bringing Mindfulness to Your Workplace” by Jenny Wang and Juliet Adams discusses some of the benefits of mindfulness and offers four steps to launching a mindfulness training program for your employees.
In this issue of TD at Work, you will find:
- a definition of mindfulness and how it differs from mindlessness
- examples of mindfulness activities appropriate for the workplace
- descriptions of well-established mindfulness teaching approaches
- research findings related to mindfulness
- a task list for developing your own pilot program
- questions to ask potential training providers.
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Full ProfileJenny Wang has a passion for helping people improve performance through holistic learning. She is a senior consultant responsible for Career and Professional Development Programs for Office Depot. She is also a certified yoga instructor and health coach. Contact her at [email protected].
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Full ProfileJuliet Adams is the founder of mindfulnet.org, author of Making the Business Case for Mindfulness and Mindful Leadership for Dummies, and co-author of Mindfulness at Work for Dummies. Juliet teaches mindfulness in workplaces and helped develop the WorkplaceMT approach to teaching mindfulness. Contact her at [email protected].
