Mindfulness for Team Building 🧠🧘🏻♀️
A weekly roundup of the latest future of work and conscious leadership news and insights
As a conscious leadership coach, I encourage individual coaching to help leaders and their teams continue to improve themselves so they can be personally fulfilled, serve others effectively, and have greater impact. But conscious leadership isn’t just an individual endeavor. It’s about a team coming together and embracing this concept as well.
Harvard Business Review recently published an article that addresses this idea from the mindfulness perspective. In recent years mindfulness practices have become popular in the workplace, schools, and for overall personal development. Mindfulness, similar to consciousness, is about self-awareness, focusing on the present moment, and learning to live and work in balance. By incorporating mindfulness practices into a team, rather than just an individual practice, the entire team can benefit.
Authors Megan Reitz and Michael Chaskalson recommend three specific collective mindfulness practices for teams:
Allowing: “the wisdom to accept present-moment reality and to approach any situation openly and compassionately.”
Inquiry: “the capacity to be curious at three levels: about individual team members and their habits and preferences (including your own); about your team and its dynamics; and about the organizational and societal system around you.”
Meta-awareness: “the capacity to observe and describe experiences from an individual, team, and system-wide perspective rather being confined solely within any individual’s personal experiences.”
While individual development and growth is essential, so is incorporating conscious leadership and mindfulness practices across a team. It can provide unity and shared experience that will create a powerful group of growing professionals eager to continue their individual and collective growth towards shared goals.
The workplace needs conscious leaders who can transform how we work and relate to each other. If you’re ready to become a conscious leader who brings innovative, powerful practices like mindfulness into the workplace, let’s connect.
Here is some of the future of work and conscious leadership content I found interesting this week:
Wrike recently conducted a remote work survey that found almost half of workers don’t understand what’s expected of them as they work remotely. Lack of clarity is one of the fastest ways to sink a remote team. Employees need to have crystal clear clarity about expectations and they need boundaries to protect their personal time. Leaders who provide this clarity and help establish healthy systems and boundaries will find greater success for their virtual team.
NBC News reports people are enjoying working remotely from vacation spots so much, it’s extending the normal summer holiday season. Unsurprisingly, many people have now discovered the benefits of remote work and education: you can travel and have news experiences that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. It’s exciting to think about the possibilities this means for the future of work and education.
I recently wrote about Darren Murph, GitLab’s Head of Remote. He’s been getting a lot of publicity lately. And this week he authored a Harvard Business Review article about how GitLab has empowered its global remote team to be successful. Lots of great tips and insights in this piece for those looking to build a strong remote team.
Work happy. Live happy. BE happy.
Meredith
Meredith’s coaching helps conscious leaders courageously step into the future of work. Contact her to develop your conscious leadership and transform your organization into the workplace of the future.
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