Mindfulness in the Workplace

By introducing mindfulness in the workplace, you can learn to:

  • Reduce stress, anxiety and distraction.

  • Reduce reactivity and automatic behaviors.

  • Increase resilience, productivity, creativity, and problem-solving.

  • Increase focus and attention.

  • Improve communication and relationships.

  • Increase social and emotional intelligence.

  • Increase critical thinking and decision-making.

  • Lead through increasing complexity.

  • Lead through volatile change and uncertainty.

If you are interested in discussing a bespoke taster session, or finding out how your team and/or organization might benefit from a bespoke mindfulness course, let’s talk.

 

In the workplace, mindfulness reduces chronic stress, anxiety, distraction, bias, conflict and burnout. It drives down healthcare costs, absenteeism, safety and turnover costs, while increasing top line productivity.

Here are some interesting facts:

  • Chronic stress: workplace stress crushes motivation and productivity, and is the principal contributor to the 6 leading causes of premature death: cancer, coronary heart disease, accidental injuries, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. (National Institutes of Health, 2008)

  • In today’s business world, people are more stressed and comparatively less able to make effective decisions. (Dean & Webb, 2011)

  • Information overload: world knowledge is doubling every day (London School of Economics, 2017), while human attention spans have dropped below 8 seconds. (Time, 2015)

  • Burnout: a recent study found that 23% of employees reported feeling burned out at work very often or always, while an additional 44% reported feeling burned out sometimes. That means about two-thirds of full-time workers experience burnout on the job. This has a significant organizational cost. (Gallup, 2018)

  • Healthcare costs: burnout costs an estimated $125 billion to $190 billion a year in healthcare spending in the U.S. (Harvard Business Review, 2017) Workplace stress is responsible for up to 8 percent of national spending on health care and contributes to 120,000 deaths a year. (Harvard Business School, 2015)

However:

  • After engaging in mindfulness training 4 times for 20 minutes each, individuals’ memory and executive functioning can significantly improve. (Zeidan et al., 2010)