Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others
Meditation and Business Do Mix...Scented Candles Not RequiredEffective leaders are self aware and empower those they influence to achieve their potential.Mindful Leadershipis a guide to leadership that starts with the self—for business people, members of the public service, professionals, and anyone else in a position to influence others.Maria Gonzalez shows you how to use a single tool—Mindfulness meditation—to achieve clarity, focus, and self-awareness, enabling you to transform yourself and achieve positive results by inspiring those you lead. In this book, you will learn how to use mindfulness to:Achieve greater concentration and productivityReduce the stresses in your life and manage those that remainBecome resilient and sustain high performance over the long termAnticipate and serve stakeholder needs, commu-nicate better, and increase team effectivenessStay focused on what matters and remain level-headed about what you can't controlCreate calm and focus, see clearly under stressful conditions, and make better decisionsMindfulness is a process of training the mind that anyone can follow, andMindful Leadershipprovides simple techniques you can use anytime, anywhere, to improve yourself as a leader. Beginning with the simple act of being fully present, mindfulness opens up the 9 ways to become more effective in every aspect of life.