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Mindful leadership for dummies /
The easy way to become a more mindful leader Want to become a more mindful leader' With Mindful Leadership For Dummies, you'll find accessible and authoritative guidance for cultivating focus, clarity, and creativity from within your colleagues. Packed full of useful tips, this friendly ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
2016.
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| Colección: | --For dummies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Breaking the Mould
- Chapter 1 Exploring Mindful Leadership
- Establishing the Facts about Mindfulness and Leadership
- Understanding mindfulness
- Redefining leadership
- Exploring the Benefits of Mindful Leadership
- Refreshing your knowledge of leadership
- Investigating human nature
- Deconstructing Mindfulness
- Defining mindfulness
- Maintaining metacognition and an optimum mind state
- Exploring the Evolution of Mindfulness
- Identifying the foundations of mindfulness in the workplace
- Starting your own mindful leadership journey
- Chapter 2 Discovering Why Mindfulness Matters to Leaders
- Leadership Challenges of the Modern Workplace
- Leading in a VUCA world
- Leading when change is the norm
- Identifying Sources of Pressure
- Defining pressure
- Defining stress
- Identifying sources of pressure that can lead to stress
- Recognising power stress
- Mindful Ways to Improve Your Leadership
- Letting go of the stereotype
- Recognising your stress levels
- Mindful strategies for leading in a VUCA world
- Mindfully Reducing Leadership Stress
- Minding the gap
- Gaining a sense of completion
- Engaging your recovery and renewal circuitry
- Understanding that Mindfulness Is Not a Panacea for All Ills
- Don't shoot the messenger
- Be mindful of your breath
- When to seek professional help
- Chapter 3 Harnessing the Neuroscience of Mindful Leadership
- Grasping the Potential and Limitations of the Executive Brain
- The human brain 101
- Boosting your neuroplasticity
- Becoming conscious of your unconscious
- Recognising Your Hidden Drivers
- Maximising reward, minimising threat
- Exploring fight, flight or freeze.
- Recognising the human negativity bias
- Recognising the wandering mind
- Establishing How Mindfulness Works
- Stage 1: Setting intent
- Stage 2: Focused concentration
- Stage 3: Open monitoring
- Recognising the importance of kindness and acceptance
- Part 2 Learning from Mindful Leaders
- Chapter 4 Case Study 1: Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath
- The Impact of Mindfulness on Andrew's Work
- Mindful negotiations in the Middle East
- Mindful leadership at M & S
- Mindful work in parliament
- Mindful self-management
- Cultivating happiness
- Andrew's Mindfulness Experience and Practice
- Finding the motivation
- Developing mindfulness
- Incorporating mindfulness every day
- Andrew's Hints and Tips
- Leadership Insights
- Chapter 5 Case Study 2: Tim Neild, Royal Navy Commander
- The Impact of Mindfulness on Tim's Work
- Working under pressure
- Maintaining balance and perspective
- Remaining focused in meetings
- Improving personal effectiveness and productivity
- Improving sleep quality
- Becoming more self-aware
- Mindfulness Experience and Practice
- What was Tim's motivation to learn about mindfulness?
- How Tim started to develop his mindfulness
- How Tim incorporates mindfulness into his day
- Tim's Hints and Tips for Leaders
- Leadership Insights
- Chapter 6 Case Study 3: Marion Furr, Director of MBPA
- The Impact of Mindfulness on Marion's Work
- Leading a major restructuring programme
- Being a less frantic, more authentic leader
- Introducing mindfulness to the Department of Health
- Marion's Mindfulness Experience and Practice
- Finding the motivation
- Developing mindfulness
- Incorporating mindfulness every day
- Marion's Top Tips for Leaders
- Leadership Insights
- Part 3 Developing Mindfulness
- Chapter 7 Setting the Stage for Transformation
- Understanding Self-Authoring.
- Developing the Tools for Self-Authoring
- Understanding your leadership style and preferences
- Deciding what's working and what's not
- Setting your intention
- Harnessing the power of neuroplasticity
- Taking Your First Step Towards Mindful Leadership
- WorkplaceMT training structure and rationale
- WorkplaceMT training requirements and expectations
- Chapter 8 Week 1: Focusing Your Attention
- Mindfulness or Mindlessness: Discovering the Difference
- Observing autopilot in action
- Recognising habitual responses
- Noticing the mind's tendency to wander
- Tuning in to the Present Moment
- Focusing Your Attention
- Practicing mindfulness of breath
- Mindfulness of breath
- the science
- Week 1 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 1 formal mindfulness exercises
- Week 1 informal everyday mindfulness exercises
- Chapter 9 Week 2: Observing the Mind-Body Connection
- Exploring the Impact of Work on Your Body
- Working as a board member
- Working in IT
- Exploring Mind-Body Science
- Influencing your decisions and judgment
- Discovering the link between your tissue and your brain
- Assessing the impact of posture on performance
- Tuning in to Your Body
- Tuning in to your early warning system
- Pausing to appreciate the moment
- Observing your reactivity cycles
- Scanning Your Body
- Body scan exercise
- Body scan
- the science
- Reflecting on the body scan
- Managing Expectations
- Week 2 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 2 formal mindfulness exercise: Body scan
- Week 2 informal everyday mindfulness
- Chapter 10 Week 3: Minding the Gap
- Working Smarter, Not Harder
- Minding the Gap
- Noticing Patterns of Thought
- Applying Kindness to Your Work
- Adopting an Approach Mode of Mind
- Adopting an approach mode of mind at work
- Understanding the science of approach and avoidance.
- Taking Stock of Your Progress
- Stretching without Striving
- Stretching without striving exercise
- The science behind stretching without striving
- Mindfulness of Breath and Body
- The Three-Step Breathing Space
- Week 3 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 3 formal mindfulness exercise
- Week 3 informal everyday mindfulness
- Chapter 11 Week 4: Recognising That Thoughts Are Not Facts
- Observing the Guessing Game
- Separating the facts from your interpretation
- Surviving adversity
- Acting on assumptions
- Reducing Mental Pain
- Recognising your inner bully
- Observing your inner bully at play
- Identifying Sounds and Thoughts
- Observing the impact of sounds
- Mindfulness of sounds and thoughts exercise
- Living with Frustration
- Mastering the Three-Step Breathing Space
- Week 4 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 4 formal mindfulness exercise
- Week 4 informal everyday mindfulness
- Chapter 12 Week 5: Turning Towards Difficulties
- Facing Up to Difficulties
- Accepting difficulty
- Approaching difficulty
- Approaching difficulty exercise
- Reflecting on your experiences
- Picking Your Battles Wisely
- Don't sweat the small stuff
- Practice mindful acceptance
- Using the Breathing Space to Deal with Daily Challenges
- Week 5 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 5 formal mindfulness exercise
- Week 5 informal everyday mindfulness
- Chapter 13 Week 6: Developing Intention
- Accepting Your True Self
- Knowing When It's Time to Do Things Differently
- Balancing Your Life and Work
- Striking a balance that's right for you
- Filling your energy tanks
- Managing Yourself for Resilience
- Getting the most out of meetings
- Dealing with pressure
- Cultivating Kindness
- Cultivating kindness exercise
- Cultivating kindness short exercises
- Setting an Intent to Make Mindfulness Part of Each Day.
- Week 6 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
- Week 6 formal mindfulness exercise
- Week 6 informal everyday mindfulness
- Part 4 Applying Mindful Leadership
- Chapter 14 Enhancing Your Personal Presence and Influence
- Establishing Your Personal Brand
- Discovering your values and personal drivers
- Identifying your personal values
- Seeing yourself through the eyes of others
- Harnessing the Power of Influence
- Promoting trust
- Being consistent
- Showing assertiveness without aggression
- Being flexible, not rigid
- Being personable
- Walking the talk
- Listening
- Becoming a 3-D Negotiator
- Practicing mindful negotiation
- Becoming a better negotiator
- Chapter 15 Leading in a Digital Age
- Defining Digital Leadership
- Identifying the role of social media
- Identifying the digital implications for leaders
- Exploring the Impact of Leading in a Digital Age
- Recognising signs of information overload
- Recognising executive attention deficit disorder
- Managing your attention
- Coping with the Demands of Digital Leadership
- Working More Effectively in a Digital Age
- Chapter 16 Leading in Times of Change
- Understanding Change from Your Brain's Perspective
- Leading When Change Is the Norm
- Managing change or leading change?
- Observing the change continuum
- Exploring Models of Change Leadership
- Kotter's model of change leadership
- Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model
- Prosci's ADKAR Model
- Practicing Mindful Strategies for Leading Change
- Letting go of the illusion of control
- Becoming more emotionally intelligent
- Remaining rooted in the present moment
- Part 5 Becoming a Mindful Organisation
- Chapter 17 Introducing Mindfulness to Your Organisation
- Starting with the Outcome in Mind
- Defining desirable organisational outcomes
- Assessing the risk of possible negative impacts.