Integrating proven mindfulness practices and world-class leadership theory, The Mindful Leader is the essential guide for self-aware leadership. The book provides a practically grounded template for leaders to develop unprecedented levels of self-awareness, wellbeing, and effectiveness.
- Improve your leadership skills via context-specific mindfulness practices
- Learn mindfulness from a practical perspective, with real workplace skills
- Discover how leaders from around the world practice mindful leadership every day
- Understand the neuroscience link between mindfulness and great leadership
- Learn practices that deliver a deeper sense of integrity, authenticity, fulfillment, and bottom-line results improvement
Mindfulness provides practical tools for self-awareness, mental wellbeing, stress reduction, and more. When practiced through a leadership lens, it becomes much more than just another leadership guide. Mindfulness transforms leadership as a whole, delivering real, lasting change that transcends typical leadership training. For a clear, concise framework of mindfulness at work, The Mindful Leader is the ideal guide for those serious about effective, sustainable leadership.
Great leaders and teams don't know everything, and they don't get it right every time. What sets them apart is their commitment to continual learning and vertical growth. Vertical growth is about cultivating the self-awareness to see our self-defeating thoughts, assumptions, and behaviors, and then consciously creating new behaviors that are aligned with our best intentions and aspirations.
By embracing the deliberate practices and processes for vertical growth laid out in this book, you'll not only radically improve your leadership and personal wellbeing-you'll also foster the highest levels of trust, psychological safety, motivation, and creativity in the teams and groups you work with.
You'll to discover how to: identify when, where, and how to develop new leadership behaviors to get better results; regulate your emotional responses in real time and handle the most difficult challenges with balance, wisdom, and accountability; cultivate practices for self-awareness that foster lifelong internal growth and personal happiness; uncover and change the limiting assumptions and beliefs that keep you, your team, and organization locked in unproductive habits and behaviors; and create practices and rituals that enable the highest levels of psychological safety, innovation, and growth.
