The Organizational Mindfulness Program
Everybody is talking about mindfulness these days.
And I love that! Mindfulness practice is critical for building conscious, self-aware and well-balanced leaders.
But it’s one thing to sit on a cushion meditating for two hours a day, which is great. I’ve done it. And it has had profound effects on my life and well-being.
But how can busy professionals find two hours in their day to meditate? Answer: Most can’t!
I spent 5 years learning and practicing secular Buddhism through the Shambhala Center in Boulder, Colorado. Then I became a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher. Both life-changing experiences.
Yet, I was still searching for a way to bring mindfulness to organizations. Until I found the Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness and their Organizational Mindfulness Program.
“At the heart of our most intractable business problems, we find people problems: chronic stress and burnout, interpersonal conflict, miscommunications, poor decision-making, and more. We waste massive amounts of money, time, energy and resources trying to fix these issues, while the true cost of this class of problems is much more troubling.”
– Menon and Thompson,
Harvard Business Review, 2016
People problems and human capital challenges represent huge overhead for organizations. You can do something about it. Bring the Organizational Mindfulness Program to your team or organization.
The Organizational Mindfulness Program is an all-science curriculum teaching mindfulness techniques to develop critical mental and emotional work skills – along with applications to improve individual and organizational performance.
Topics include:
✓ The Science of Mindfulness
✓ The Essential Attitudes and Exercises
✓ Resolving Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout
✓ Increasing Focus and Attention Control
✓ Navigating Change and Uncertainty
✓ Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
✓ Improving Teamwork and Collaboration
✓ Building Mental Strength and Resilience
Tailored Options for The Organizational Mindfulness Program
- Virtual: 4-8 90-minute sessions on Zoom.
- In-person: 2-days or 4 half-day versions
All choices are governed by and tailored to the key issues your team/organization is facing.
Expected Outcomes
Participants will be better able to:
- Understand and embody the principles, practices and attitudes of secular, science- based mindfulness
- Learn specific mental and emotional skills to address typical workplace challenges
- Establish a regular mindfulness practice (with audio recordings to guide practices at home)
- Access optional resources for deeper and continued learning
Cost to Organizations of People Problems
Study after study has shown that people problems represent an enormous overhead – and that an investment in the health, happiness, focus and engagement in the workforce results in more innovation, higher quality, greater productivity, more sales and loyal customers – all of which drive financial performance.
These are not marginal considerations — they go to the heart of our bottom lines and balance sheets. The annual cost of human capital challenges in the US include:
- Employer-paid healthcare benefits – $880 billion (Integrated Benefits Institute)
- Illness-related loss in productivity – $530 billion (Integrated Benefits Institute)
- Absenteeism – $225 billion (Centers for Disease Control)
- Non-absent loss in productivity – $1,500 billion (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Active disengagement – $500 billion (Gallup)
- Workplace conflict – $359 billion (CPP)
- Workplace accidents – $171 billion (National Safety Council)
- Employee turnover – $630 billion (Work Institute)
A late 2020 survey from Mindful.org asked a population of 1670 corporate managers if, and how, they would expect mindfulness to help their organization. Here’s what they said:
- Improve Overall Wellbeing – 87%
- Reduce Stress – 86%
- Improve ability to cope with change – 80%
- Improve Resilience – 78%
- Improve Emotional Intelligence – 64%
- Increase Happiness – 58%
- Increase Productivity – 48%
- Improve Collaboration – 47%
- Produce Better Leaders – 46%
- Increase Innovation – 44%
- Improve Retention – 42%
- Lower Healthcare Costs – 32%
- Reduce Absenteeism – 30%
Source: Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness
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