Mindful Leadership for Dummies - (For Dummies) by Juliet Adams (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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 how-to guide will help you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style to manage and reap the benefits of a more attentive working life--all while nurturing compassion in the service of others. You'll discover how mindfulness can help improve decision-making and communication skills, manage modern workday challenges, and so much more.

Mindful leadership is currently a high-trending topic in the self-help/business world, making headlines in such prominent publications as Forbes, Time magazine and The Guardian, and even earning a dedicated blog on Huffington Post. And all for good reason--the benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace are far-reaching, and as we begin to uncover more research that supports its effectiveness, it's no wonder business leaders are jumping aboard this positive bandwagon.

• Includes tips on incorporating mindfulness into your leadership style
• Shows you how mindfulness can help develop and deepen your leadership qualities
• Explains how mindfulness enhances productivity and minimizes the effects of stress in the workplace
• Outlines how adding mindfulness to your leadership approach will enable you to make positive choices that support your well-being

If you're a businessperson looking to add mindfulness to your leadership tool belt, Mindful Leadership For Dummies has everything you need to get started today.

From the Back Cover

• Incorporate mindfulness into your approach
• Improve your leadership style
• Reap the benefits of being attentive to colleagues

Put mindfulness to work

This how-to guide helps you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style so you can be more informed at work -- all while being a more thoughtful boss. You'll discover how mindfulness can help improve decision-making and communication skills, manage workday challenges and more.

Inside ...

• Understand mindful leadership
• Learn from case studies
• Work more effectively
• Improve your focus
• Live in the moment
• Incorporate strategies
• Influence work culture

About the Author

Juliet Adams is a learning and development professional who has pioneered workplace mindfulness training. A professional mindfulness teacher and trainer developer, she teaches internationally.
Marina Grazier retrained as a Psychologist to pioneer mindfulness tailored for the workplace. Marina qualified as an MBCT teacher at Oxford University, and she now develops workplace trainers internationally.