Poster for Mindfulness At Work Conference 2014 by Dr Jutta Tobias and Dr Andrey Pavlov, Centre for Business Performance in collaboration with InMindSight Per Norrgren. #MAWC14

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Mindfulness training causing higher cognitive skills for management students
Dr Jutta Tobias and Dr Andrey Pavlov, Cranfield Centre for Business Performance
High levels of mindfulness are linked with high work performance (Dane, 2010; Reb et al., 2013; Dane & Brummel, 2013).
Brief mindfulness training predicts higher cognitive skills (Zeidan et al., 2010) and better ability to solve complex cognitive challenges (Ostafin & Kassman, 2012).
Mindfulness can be trained through mental exercise.
Can brief mindfulness training increase management students’ cognitive skills?
•Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) with 88 volunteer MBA & MSc Finance students
•Quasi-experiment with Treatment vs Control group design
•6 sessions of 1 hour mindfulness training for 3 weeks (based on MBSR, provided by Per Norrgren of InMindSight)
•Before and after the training: Measured cognitive skills by assessing working memory
1.To enable Cranfield students to benefit from the link between mindfulness training and performance-related outcomes.
2.To increase the scientific link between mindfulness and performance.
Research goal Replication trials in organisations. Please contact jutta.tobias@cranfield.ac.uk to collaborate with us on this.
A person’s working memory is akin to a computer's RAM memory, and one of the most critical cognitive predictors of performance & achievement In our RCT, participants’ working memory significantly increased after mindfulness training, compared to the control group.
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