In recent times, most organizations have faced productivity challenges resulting from the harsh business environment impacting the people at work. The economic difficulties faced today hurt productivity at work. Consider the everyday present scenarios and ask if most people are indeed “present” at work. Check emails during meetings. Think about what needs to be done at home. Ruminate about a conversation with a fellow employee? Worry about a conversation that didn’t go well?

Organizational Mindfulness is the next generation of modern competence-building tools to improve productivity in organizations. Rather than teaching mindfulness as a therapy for stress, it is taught more broadly – as a process of neural training that produces an array of positive and predictable outcomes in human well-being, cognitive performance, and emotional intelligence – which, in turn, is applied to develop individual and organizational capabilities. 

Stress management creates conditions for performance improvement, but it is only one outcome of mindfulness practice. The same spectrum of concepts and exercises can be applied to diminish the confusion of overload and overwhelm, the compulsion of digital distraction, the unconscious bias of discrimination, the automaticity of conflict, and many more mental and emotional challenges.

This course is designed to develop the mental and emotional skills that enable peak performance in the enterprise. It integrates the principles and practices of traditional mindfulness – the most current research in neuroscience, biology, psychology and medicine – school research in leadership and organizational development.