Imagine that your leaders are completely centered, intentional and aware of their actions at work. Mindfulness has been used for over 2 millennia too broaden awareness and create a wider range of behavioral choices when in routines. It has only recently been introduced by organizational behavior/mindfulness experts into the workplace to transform the way leaders tend to their organizations.

Mindfulness is a powerful tool to help leaders break out of automatic routines and become intentional, rather than act on auto-pilot. Research reveals that mindful practices lead to improved energy, health, stress reduction, flexibility, creativity, and capacity to think complexly. This program is based on Dr. Bauback Yeganeh’s original research at Case Western Reserve University, from the world's leading organizational behavior department as ranked by Financial Times. Dr. Yeganeh's mindful leader programs are among the highest scored by leaders attending Case Western Reserve University’s Executive Education Programs.

Participants learn a range of mindfulness techniques to focus and expand the mind, disrupt auto-pilot tendencies at work, and intentionally grow competencies and skills.

Examples of mindfulness techniques include:

• Focusing the mind when “stuck in thought”
• Asking context-sensitive questions at critical moments
• Being aware and intentional of the way we categorize people, places, things, and events in order to expand rather than limit our thoughts and behaviors

Participants in this highly interactive program will:

• Learn about what mindfulness is and is not
• Learn how mindfulness can be used as a powerful tool to develop leadership
• Practice techniques that can be done easily at work
• Identify ideal times to switch off “auto-pilot” while at work (i.e. in meetings, while problem solving), and how this can be done
• Complete a series of exercises that can be adapted for the workday, post-workshop
• Self-assess leadership competencies to grow
• Create action plans for practicing specific practical mindfulness techniques in order to develop leadership competencies