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Checklist: How to Support Emotional Wellness for Remote Employees
By Jay Forte, guest contributor
So many people today are working remotely. With a computer and Internet connectivity, employees can get most (or all) of their usual work done.
But working from home during a pandemic is drastically different from the traditional work-at-home mentality. Today, remote employees have to juggle so many things that impact their productivity. There is family, home schooling, shopping in a pandemic, having enough of the essentials, finding and using safety equipment …
How Mindfulness Can Help Manage Work Stress
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By Brenda Fingold, guest contributor
Even in the best of times, work is messy. By its very nature, work is unpredictable, complex, and continually moving in directions that are both expected and unexpected, pleasant and unpleasant, controllable and uncontrollable. And yet, most of us still show up every day assuming that we can contain our experience and are surprised when a conflict arises, technology goes down, a valued colleague gives notice, a done d…
The Privilege of Being Kind
By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader Chief Community Organizer
Our mission is to enable people to foster mindfulness and compassion in the workplace and we often talk about kindness. Until recently I never really looked at the act of kindness as a privilege. The experience that I had a few months ago gave me an entirely new perspective.
One night, heading home after work I caught an Uber and I started a conversation with my driver. He was a tall, handsome black man with a rugby player's build. I no…
How to Help Co-Create an End to Racial Injustice
By Due Quach, guest contributor
As cries for ending racial injustice and police brutality continuously resound across the country, people are making clear that it is time for the changes demanded by the Civil Rights Movement for over 60 years to finally become reality. Tragically, the pace of structural and legislative reform to address systemic racism has been slowed by how mindlessness, inertia, and complacency preserve the status quo. Because the cost and suffering from waiting are too great…
Resources to Help You Deepen Your Understanding of Racism
By The Mindful Leader Team
Resources from the mindfulness community:
Leading Social Transformation: The Inner Work of Racial Justice with Rhonda Magee
SIYLI
Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good
Greater Good
The Untold - What White People Can do with Privilege
Ruth King
An Open Letter to Humanity
Michelle L. Maldonado
Think meditation could help cope with microaggressions? There’s an app for that.
Washington Post
Anti-racism in your company:
Shaping Our Presence to Be More Supportive
By Joy Reichart, New Ventures West, guest contributor
In these days of heightened anxiety and insecurity, many of us are drawn to be a safe and reassuring space for those who are in crisis and afraid. And, when we’re in that often unavoidable place ourselves, we’re grateful to the folks who can hold that kind of space for us.
What is it about the people by whom we feel most comforted? What is awake in us—consciously or otherwise—when we are feeling truly available to emotionally support others…
Challenges of Strategic Leadership: Mastering Executive Functions
By Art Kleiner, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, and Josie Thomson, guest contributors
This is part of a series. You can find the first article here.
Strategic leadership is the ability to handle complex problems: where there is no obvious or facile solution, the stakes are high, and collaboration with others is essential. In this series for Mindful Leader, we are exploring the seven challenges, based in the mind and brain, which strategic leaders can expect to face as they move through their careers.
…A Little Too Much Truth: A Candid Conversation between a CEO & a Chief Diversity Officer
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Witness Naropa University’s President, Chuck Lief, and Chief Diversity Officer, Regina Smith, as they ask each other the tough questions about how identity informs their work, and that organizational leaders often avoid. This fierce and compassionate conversation demonstrates the fearlessness that is a trademark of leaders who are rooted in mindfulness practice, principles, & presence. This video was recorded at the 2018 Mindful Leadership Summit.
How to Overcome Burnout with a Self-Care Plan
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Shelly Tygielski shares how to create a Self-Care Plan to address burnout and provides approaches on how to build self-care in community settings at @Work 2019. Shelly explains how many people may not realize they are burned out because they do not know the signs of burnout. To recover from burnout, Shelly illustrates ways to conduct self-care in community, by identifying categories, establishing groups, and allowing for people to express their obstacles and…
Improve Learning Agility with Mindfulness
By Andy Lee, guest contributor
In 1988, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) published a book that transformed how people thought about leadership development. In The Lessons of Experience, the authors proposed that based on their research, the most important source of professional growth is not training programs or even mentoring relationships, but rather the insights that result from on-the-job experience. They captured this lesson in the 70-20-10 prescription for leadership development, …