This document discusses the growing popularity and integration of mindfulness practices in organizational settings. It notes that mindfulness has recently moved from being a marginal or counter-cultural concept to becoming mainstream. The document examines how emotional intelligence underwent a similar transition previously and identifies key factors that helped drive this, such as influential books being published that appealed to business audiences and demonstrated practical applications. It argues mindfulness is gaining attention from organizations currently due to its potential to improve resilience and reduce stress, which are important issues for businesses. The document reviews evidence of the growing "fuss" and integration of mindfulness in various sectors.
Focus the hidden driver of excellence- SummaryGMR Group
Daniel Goleman begins by explaining how we pay attention, how we focus and how we make fundamental decisions based on an overview of the anatomy of our brain. He explains the difference between “bottom up” thinking, where our more primitive brain (the amygdala) drives basic reactive thought and instinct based fast thought, such as what drives us (food, sex, emotion) and the slower “top down” thinking that emanates from our more advanced pre-frontal cortex or executive functioning brain. Critically to understand how these work one must also understand how they conflict and how they complement one another. Understanding the way the brain works helps us understand and influence whether we merely react or whether we control our thought.
The book then goes on to explore a somewhat eclectic selection of brain functions and attributes that form our thought processes. He explores how we perceive others, or “read” them; the role of empathy in our thinking; how we perceive patterns or fail to; how we act upon immediate threats but largely ignore distant threats; and how these thinking patterns help us to succeed and to fail.
He discusses how not the amount of practice but the quality of practice defines how proficient we are. He challenges the 10,000 hour myth, in which it is argued that a talent or skill is developed to proficiency with 10,000 hours of practice explaining that proficiency and mastery require quality practice for many hours.
An interesting book to read for developing a good Leadership Traits.
Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside YourselfYear of the X
Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside Yourself @Günther Panke & Britta Hölzel (Mindful Leadership Institute)
21st April 2016 at Year of the Monkey in Munich
This document discusses the importance of developing personal, professional, and organizational vision statements. It describes how the author's initial excitement about pursuing educational administration faded due to concerns expressed by others in the field. This led to doubts and lack of motivation. However, being required to change topics for a class assignment helped the author realize the importance of having a vision. The rest of the document outlines how developing effective vision statements can provide inspiration and direction, and explores strategies for crafting visions at different levels.
The document discusses the key concepts of a learning organization from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline". It outlines five disciplines of a learning organization: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking. It also discusses seven learning disabilities that inhibit organizational learning and eleven laws of a learning organization. Leaders are responsible for building foundations, developing learning processes, helping people develop more insightful views, and stewarding the shared vision.
The document summarizes key concepts from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" regarding learning organizations. It describes the five disciplines that Senge proposes are essential for organizations to become true "learning organizations": personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. For each discipline, it provides an overview of the core ideas and how they contribute to building an organization's capacity for continuous learning and improvement.
This document discusses the five disciplines of a learning organization as outlined in Peter Senge's book "The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization". The five disciplines are: personal mastery, mental models, building a shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. It provides an overview of each discipline, including how personal mastery involves lifelong learning and commitment. Mental models are deeply held assumptions that influence how we understand the world. Building a shared vision involves translating individual visions into a shared commitment. Team learning occurs when a team's intelligence exceeds the sum of individuals. Systems thinking views problems as interconnected parts of a whole system. The document concludes with implications for employee development and leadership training at Vestechno Group based on these five disciplines.
Search Inside Yourself is the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program that started at Google and is now taught world wide to develop clarity, resilience, and compassionate leadership in organizations.
If you are curious to learn more, please email shalini@MFactor.org
Focus the hidden driver of excellence- SummaryGMR Group
Daniel Goleman begins by explaining how we pay attention, how we focus and how we make fundamental decisions based on an overview of the anatomy of our brain. He explains the difference between “bottom up” thinking, where our more primitive brain (the amygdala) drives basic reactive thought and instinct based fast thought, such as what drives us (food, sex, emotion) and the slower “top down” thinking that emanates from our more advanced pre-frontal cortex or executive functioning brain. Critically to understand how these work one must also understand how they conflict and how they complement one another. Understanding the way the brain works helps us understand and influence whether we merely react or whether we control our thought.
The book then goes on to explore a somewhat eclectic selection of brain functions and attributes that form our thought processes. He explores how we perceive others, or “read” them; the role of empathy in our thinking; how we perceive patterns or fail to; how we act upon immediate threats but largely ignore distant threats; and how these thinking patterns help us to succeed and to fail.
He discusses how not the amount of practice but the quality of practice defines how proficient we are. He challenges the 10,000 hour myth, in which it is argued that a talent or skill is developed to proficiency with 10,000 hours of practice explaining that proficiency and mastery require quality practice for many hours.
An interesting book to read for developing a good Leadership Traits.
Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside YourselfYear of the X
Tame your Monkey Mind in a Vuca World - Search Inside Yourself @Günther Panke & Britta Hölzel (Mindful Leadership Institute)
21st April 2016 at Year of the Monkey in Munich
This document discusses the importance of developing personal, professional, and organizational vision statements. It describes how the author's initial excitement about pursuing educational administration faded due to concerns expressed by others in the field. This led to doubts and lack of motivation. However, being required to change topics for a class assignment helped the author realize the importance of having a vision. The rest of the document outlines how developing effective vision statements can provide inspiration and direction, and explores strategies for crafting visions at different levels.
The document discusses the key concepts of a learning organization from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline". It outlines five disciplines of a learning organization: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking. It also discusses seven learning disabilities that inhibit organizational learning and eleven laws of a learning organization. Leaders are responsible for building foundations, developing learning processes, helping people develop more insightful views, and stewarding the shared vision.
The document summarizes key concepts from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" regarding learning organizations. It describes the five disciplines that Senge proposes are essential for organizations to become true "learning organizations": personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. For each discipline, it provides an overview of the core ideas and how they contribute to building an organization's capacity for continuous learning and improvement.
This document discusses the five disciplines of a learning organization as outlined in Peter Senge's book "The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization". The five disciplines are: personal mastery, mental models, building a shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. It provides an overview of each discipline, including how personal mastery involves lifelong learning and commitment. Mental models are deeply held assumptions that influence how we understand the world. Building a shared vision involves translating individual visions into a shared commitment. Team learning occurs when a team's intelligence exceeds the sum of individuals. Systems thinking views problems as interconnected parts of a whole system. The document concludes with implications for employee development and leadership training at Vestechno Group based on these five disciplines.
Search Inside Yourself is the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program that started at Google and is now taught world wide to develop clarity, resilience, and compassionate leadership in organizations.
If you are curious to learn more, please email shalini@MFactor.org
This document provides an overview of concepts related to empathy, team dynamics, effective leadership, and achieving world peace. It discusses mirror neurons and how they relate to empathy. It outlines the five dysfunctions of a team and ways to establish trust and avoid them. Elements of giving skillful praise and compliments are presented. Advice is provided on how to be an effective and caring boss by leading with compassion. Steps toward world peace include starting with oneself, making meditation a science, and aligning it with real life.
Human Flourishing:
the innate potential of each individual to live a life of enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal well being, and authentic love and compassion.
Find out why is it so important in your organization and how can you develop it (while you manage stress and use it in a positive way).
Riaz Fida National University Of Modern Languages. Peshawar CampusRiaz Fida
Peter Senge defines a learning organization as one where people continually expand their capacity to create desired results through nurturing new patterns of thinking and collective aspirations. For organizations to excel in times of rapid change, they must be flexible, adaptive, and productive by tapping into people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels. Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization include personal mastery, where individuals clarify their vision and focus on self-development; mental models, where assumptions are challenged through inquiry; shared vision, where leaders translate personal visions into shared commitments; team learning, where dialogue and thinking together yields new insights; and systems thinking, which integrates the other disciplines by focusing on dynamics, interdependencies, and long-term goals
Organizational learning - English
The main Resource:
Integrated Series in Information Systems, Volume 29, Information Systems Theory Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society, Vol. 2, Springer; 2012 edition
Last parts of a knowledge management course for MBA students. These parts deal with 1) P. Senge's Learning Organization and 2) competitive intelligence
The document discusses organizational learning theory and its main concepts. Organizational learning theory states that in order to remain competitive, organizations must learn to change their goals and actions in response to a changing environment. Learning occurs when an organization consciously decides to change actions based on changes in circumstances and links actions to outcomes. Initial individual learning only becomes organizational learning when it is shared, stored in organizational memory, transmitted, and used for organizational goals. The document also examines strengths and weaknesses of organizational learning theory.
Leaders are constantly looking for ways to improve results, performance and deliver results within their teams in any organisations. Leaders looking for the edge explore latest theories and fads and lately we have seen a move towards authentic leadership.
As the progress of the Nation’s Vision 2035 for organisations in Brunei Darussalam advances towards technology’s heightened quality, it could be realized how leadership style also follows the trend. In our ever-changing and dynamic nature of business, authentic leaders take center stage as they guide organisations and their teams to produce sustainable and consistently good performance. Authentic leaders have been around for decades but has recently been brought into focus as the theory by their success. They carries the trend somewhat as they are viewed as real and compelling to their followers.
Mistrust of leaders in power brings cynicism from employees and creates a workforce that is largely non-committed and disengaged. In the discussion that follows, understanding these leadership developments and improvements through critical refection in carrying out projects are to be discussed. In addition, the effectiveness of the leadership strategies used in my organisation is reflected upon team’s performance in completing a project.
Can I become an authentic leader? What are the challenges I face currently? How can I harness the benefits of being an authentic leader? These are the questions that shall be demystified, hence making a best practice and guidelines in becoming an authentic leaders.
The document discusses three authors - Peter Senge, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Hirotaka Takeuchi - and two of their works. It outlines Peter Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization from his book "The Fifth Discipline": personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. It also summarizes Nonaka and Takeuchi's 4-stage model of knowledge conversion between tacit and explicit knowledge and five enablers that support knowledge creation.
The document discusses Peter Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization which are systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning. It then provides examples of how three educational projects relate to these five disciplines. Specifically, it discusses how a UDL fluency project, constructing Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets, and a flipped MakerSpace relate to and exemplify the five disciplines in terms of shared vision, mental models, personal mastery, team learning, and systems thinking. The document concludes that these educational theories can help teachers clarify goals for themselves and students to allow overcoming obstacles and growth.
Chris Argyris was an organizational psychologist known for his work on organizational learning and behavior. Some of his key contributions include:
- Developing the concepts of "espoused theory" versus "theory-in-use" to describe the gap between people's stated beliefs and actual behaviors.
- Proposing single-loop and double-loop learning, where single-loop fixes problems within the current mindset and double-loop questions underlying assumptions.
- Identifying Model I and Model II theories-in-use, where Model I is more defensive and Model II encourages participation, valid information, and learning.
- Developing an intervention model for organizational change involving mapping problems, internalizing maps, testing predictions,
This is the Supportive Narrative I wrote for everybody who might be interested in the story behind my Graduation Project: "Designing for Motivation". It also explains why my final product called Wilson managed to increase motivation for specific household tasks like doing the dishes.
The fifth discipline - An overview of Peter Senge's Fifth DiscplineSrinath Ramakrishnan
The document discusses the five disciplines of learning organizations: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking. Personal mastery involves continually improving one's skills and vision, while being aware of one's weaknesses. Mental models require examining one's internal pictures of the world through open discussion. Team learning involves collaborative problem-solving and feedback. Shared vision brings alignment through creating a vision that people genuinely commit to. Systems thinking views the organization as a whole and how its parts interrelate.
The document discusses Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" which argues that learning organizations require five core disciplines - systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning. It provides definitions and explanations of these disciplines, with a focus on systems thinking involving understanding organizational patterns and leveraging them, and personal mastery as continually expanding one's ability to achieve desired results through commitment to truth. The disciplines together can help organizations adapt to changing environments through improved learning.
Peter Senge proposes five disciplines that are important for learning organizations: 1) systems thinking which is a conceptual framework to understand how things are interconnected and how to effectively change them, 2) personal mastery which is developing one's vision through spiritual and personal growth, 3) mental models which are the assumptions and generalizations that influence how we see the world, 4) building a shared vision which involves uncovering a common vision for the future, and 5) team learning where learning occurs through dialogue and teams thinking and learning together.
This document discusses the importance of organizational learning and creating a learning organization. It defines a learning organization as one where people at all levels are continually increasing their capacity to produce results they care about. A learning organization promotes information sharing between employees to create a more knowledgeable workforce that is flexible and able to accept new ideas and changes through a shared vision. It also discusses five disciplines that are important for organizational learning: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building a shared vision, and team learning.
Leadership requires influencing others to achieve common goals. Emotional intelligence plays a key role in effective leadership through competencies like self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and relationship management. Leaders with strong emotional intelligence skills are better able to understand their own emotions and the emotions of others, build trust and rapport, motivate teams, and create a cooperative work environment where people are more supportive of the leader and organization's goals. While intelligence is important, emotional intelligence may be a stronger predictor of leadership success and performance outcomes as it influences how well people can apply their other skills.
The author recommends that pharma and healthcare marketers focus on learning authenticity as their top strategic investment in 2010. They explain that being authentic online requires understanding yourself and reflecting critically on your experiences rather than just absorbing information. Authentic engagement allows marketers to contribute genuine value to conversations with customers and patients. The future of healthcare involves more engaged, informed patients who can be partners if approached authentically. Marketers should provide reliable information to patients through conversation rather than tricks.
The Gift of Learning for Pharma and Healthcare Marketers In 2010 (free eBook)AdvanceMarketWoRx LLC
Free eBook: We asked 12 leading bloggers and healthcare thought leaders to share their reflections: what would they recommend as top learning strategies for Pharma and Healthcare marketers in 2010? Six themes were brought to life...
Mindfulness4business leaders… The latest hype-2Anne Lemaire
The document discusses mindfulness for business leaders and whether it is just a hype or can provide real benefits. It describes how the modern business world has become more stressful, fast-paced and pressured. Mindfulness, which has proven effective in reducing stress through programs like MBSR, is now being explored as an approach for leaders to gain perspective and balance. The document will examine the potential benefits of mindfulness for leaders in helping them and their organizations thrive despite challenging conditions.
98 The Coaching Psychologist, Vol. 14, No. 2, December 2018 .docxsleeperharwell
This document discusses how mindfulness can be used to build resilience in coaching psychology. It provides context on the growth of mindfulness applications in different fields of psychology, including its use in coaching psychology. The document then discusses how mindfulness can help develop resilience, which is the ability to adapt and withstand stress. Mindfulness allows individuals to take a step back, detach from thoughts and feelings, and choose adaptive responses. This builds psychological flexibility which is important for managing challenges at work. The document provides examples of how mindfulness has been applied in occupational settings to reduce stress and increase performance.
This document provides an overview of concepts related to empathy, team dynamics, effective leadership, and achieving world peace. It discusses mirror neurons and how they relate to empathy. It outlines the five dysfunctions of a team and ways to establish trust and avoid them. Elements of giving skillful praise and compliments are presented. Advice is provided on how to be an effective and caring boss by leading with compassion. Steps toward world peace include starting with oneself, making meditation a science, and aligning it with real life.
Human Flourishing:
the innate potential of each individual to live a life of enduring happiness, penetrating wisdom, optimal well being, and authentic love and compassion.
Find out why is it so important in your organization and how can you develop it (while you manage stress and use it in a positive way).
Riaz Fida National University Of Modern Languages. Peshawar CampusRiaz Fida
Peter Senge defines a learning organization as one where people continually expand their capacity to create desired results through nurturing new patterns of thinking and collective aspirations. For organizations to excel in times of rapid change, they must be flexible, adaptive, and productive by tapping into people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels. Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization include personal mastery, where individuals clarify their vision and focus on self-development; mental models, where assumptions are challenged through inquiry; shared vision, where leaders translate personal visions into shared commitments; team learning, where dialogue and thinking together yields new insights; and systems thinking, which integrates the other disciplines by focusing on dynamics, interdependencies, and long-term goals
Organizational learning - English
The main Resource:
Integrated Series in Information Systems, Volume 29, Information Systems Theory Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society, Vol. 2, Springer; 2012 edition
Last parts of a knowledge management course for MBA students. These parts deal with 1) P. Senge's Learning Organization and 2) competitive intelligence
The document discusses organizational learning theory and its main concepts. Organizational learning theory states that in order to remain competitive, organizations must learn to change their goals and actions in response to a changing environment. Learning occurs when an organization consciously decides to change actions based on changes in circumstances and links actions to outcomes. Initial individual learning only becomes organizational learning when it is shared, stored in organizational memory, transmitted, and used for organizational goals. The document also examines strengths and weaknesses of organizational learning theory.
Leaders are constantly looking for ways to improve results, performance and deliver results within their teams in any organisations. Leaders looking for the edge explore latest theories and fads and lately we have seen a move towards authentic leadership.
As the progress of the Nation’s Vision 2035 for organisations in Brunei Darussalam advances towards technology’s heightened quality, it could be realized how leadership style also follows the trend. In our ever-changing and dynamic nature of business, authentic leaders take center stage as they guide organisations and their teams to produce sustainable and consistently good performance. Authentic leaders have been around for decades but has recently been brought into focus as the theory by their success. They carries the trend somewhat as they are viewed as real and compelling to their followers.
Mistrust of leaders in power brings cynicism from employees and creates a workforce that is largely non-committed and disengaged. In the discussion that follows, understanding these leadership developments and improvements through critical refection in carrying out projects are to be discussed. In addition, the effectiveness of the leadership strategies used in my organisation is reflected upon team’s performance in completing a project.
Can I become an authentic leader? What are the challenges I face currently? How can I harness the benefits of being an authentic leader? These are the questions that shall be demystified, hence making a best practice and guidelines in becoming an authentic leaders.
The document discusses three authors - Peter Senge, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Hirotaka Takeuchi - and two of their works. It outlines Peter Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization from his book "The Fifth Discipline": personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. It also summarizes Nonaka and Takeuchi's 4-stage model of knowledge conversion between tacit and explicit knowledge and five enablers that support knowledge creation.
The document discusses Peter Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization which are systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning. It then provides examples of how three educational projects relate to these five disciplines. Specifically, it discusses how a UDL fluency project, constructing Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets, and a flipped MakerSpace relate to and exemplify the five disciplines in terms of shared vision, mental models, personal mastery, team learning, and systems thinking. The document concludes that these educational theories can help teachers clarify goals for themselves and students to allow overcoming obstacles and growth.
Chris Argyris was an organizational psychologist known for his work on organizational learning and behavior. Some of his key contributions include:
- Developing the concepts of "espoused theory" versus "theory-in-use" to describe the gap between people's stated beliefs and actual behaviors.
- Proposing single-loop and double-loop learning, where single-loop fixes problems within the current mindset and double-loop questions underlying assumptions.
- Identifying Model I and Model II theories-in-use, where Model I is more defensive and Model II encourages participation, valid information, and learning.
- Developing an intervention model for organizational change involving mapping problems, internalizing maps, testing predictions,
This is the Supportive Narrative I wrote for everybody who might be interested in the story behind my Graduation Project: "Designing for Motivation". It also explains why my final product called Wilson managed to increase motivation for specific household tasks like doing the dishes.
The fifth discipline - An overview of Peter Senge's Fifth DiscplineSrinath Ramakrishnan
The document discusses the five disciplines of learning organizations: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking. Personal mastery involves continually improving one's skills and vision, while being aware of one's weaknesses. Mental models require examining one's internal pictures of the world through open discussion. Team learning involves collaborative problem-solving and feedback. Shared vision brings alignment through creating a vision that people genuinely commit to. Systems thinking views the organization as a whole and how its parts interrelate.
The document discusses Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" which argues that learning organizations require five core disciplines - systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning. It provides definitions and explanations of these disciplines, with a focus on systems thinking involving understanding organizational patterns and leveraging them, and personal mastery as continually expanding one's ability to achieve desired results through commitment to truth. The disciplines together can help organizations adapt to changing environments through improved learning.
Peter Senge proposes five disciplines that are important for learning organizations: 1) systems thinking which is a conceptual framework to understand how things are interconnected and how to effectively change them, 2) personal mastery which is developing one's vision through spiritual and personal growth, 3) mental models which are the assumptions and generalizations that influence how we see the world, 4) building a shared vision which involves uncovering a common vision for the future, and 5) team learning where learning occurs through dialogue and teams thinking and learning together.
This document discusses the importance of organizational learning and creating a learning organization. It defines a learning organization as one where people at all levels are continually increasing their capacity to produce results they care about. A learning organization promotes information sharing between employees to create a more knowledgeable workforce that is flexible and able to accept new ideas and changes through a shared vision. It also discusses five disciplines that are important for organizational learning: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building a shared vision, and team learning.
Leadership requires influencing others to achieve common goals. Emotional intelligence plays a key role in effective leadership through competencies like self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and relationship management. Leaders with strong emotional intelligence skills are better able to understand their own emotions and the emotions of others, build trust and rapport, motivate teams, and create a cooperative work environment where people are more supportive of the leader and organization's goals. While intelligence is important, emotional intelligence may be a stronger predictor of leadership success and performance outcomes as it influences how well people can apply their other skills.
The author recommends that pharma and healthcare marketers focus on learning authenticity as their top strategic investment in 2010. They explain that being authentic online requires understanding yourself and reflecting critically on your experiences rather than just absorbing information. Authentic engagement allows marketers to contribute genuine value to conversations with customers and patients. The future of healthcare involves more engaged, informed patients who can be partners if approached authentically. Marketers should provide reliable information to patients through conversation rather than tricks.
The Gift of Learning for Pharma and Healthcare Marketers In 2010 (free eBook)AdvanceMarketWoRx LLC
Free eBook: We asked 12 leading bloggers and healthcare thought leaders to share their reflections: what would they recommend as top learning strategies for Pharma and Healthcare marketers in 2010? Six themes were brought to life...
Mindfulness4business leaders… The latest hype-2Anne Lemaire
The document discusses mindfulness for business leaders and whether it is just a hype or can provide real benefits. It describes how the modern business world has become more stressful, fast-paced and pressured. Mindfulness, which has proven effective in reducing stress through programs like MBSR, is now being explored as an approach for leaders to gain perspective and balance. The document will examine the potential benefits of mindfulness for leaders in helping them and their organizations thrive despite challenging conditions.
98 The Coaching Psychologist, Vol. 14, No. 2, December 2018 .docxsleeperharwell
This document discusses how mindfulness can be used to build resilience in coaching psychology. It provides context on the growth of mindfulness applications in different fields of psychology, including its use in coaching psychology. The document then discusses how mindfulness can help develop resilience, which is the ability to adapt and withstand stress. Mindfulness allows individuals to take a step back, detach from thoughts and feelings, and choose adaptive responses. This builds psychological flexibility which is important for managing challenges at work. The document provides examples of how mindfulness has been applied in occupational settings to reduce stress and increase performance.
This document summarizes a psychodynamic perspective on anxiety and incompetence in large groups. It discusses how Melanie Klein's theories on splitting, projection, and projective identification can help explain dysfunctional behaviors that sometimes emerge when more than a dozen people meet together. An example is provided of a group of over 20 experienced consultants who became paralyzed by feelings of anxiety and incompetence during a large group assessment day. Unconscious processes like splitting and projection are argued to have more influence in larger groups, where relationships are more simplified and individuals feel their contributions may seem inadequate.
This document discusses and summarizes two communication theories: cognitive dissonance theory and agenda-setting theory. Cognitive dissonance theory proposes that people feel psychological discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs or thoughts, and are motivated to resolve that conflict. Agenda-setting theory suggests that news media influences public perception by choosing which issues to focus on and how prominently to cover them. The document provides examples and discusses how these theories could be useful for communication professionals in addressing cognitive dissonance and understanding media influence.
1) Coaching evolved from psychotherapy, business consulting, and personal development and draws from theories in these fields. It focuses on the present and future rather than past issues.
2) Tools used in coaching include assessments of personality, skills, and relationships as well as theories of group dynamics and emotional intelligence to help clients understand strengths and areas for growth.
3) The document discusses the roots and evolution of coaching including influences from theorists like Maslow and Rogers and describes how it is distinct from related fields like therapy, mentoring, and consulting in focusing on empowering clients to find their own solutions.
There’s a total of 3 separate assignmentsAssignment1Char.docxbarbaran11
There’s a total of 3 separate assignments
Assignment1
Characteristics of the Effective Helper
When comparing yourself to each of the 9 characteristics in Ch. 1: empathy, acceptance, genuineness, embracing a wellness perspective, cultural competence, the "It" factor, belief in one's theory, competence, and cognitive complexity, follow the directions below:
1. organize the written portion of your paper with an Introduction, a Summary at the end, and 2 sections in between. You will also need to use at least 3 professional sources for this paper, and these should be listed on a separate Reference Page at the end of your paper.
2. In the first section of this 5 to 7 page double spaced paper, APA format (not including the title page and the Reference Page), list each characteristic from the paragraph above, and provide a definition of each (use 3 sources at least, for this information).
3. In the second section of this paper, describe what you can do to strengthen 3 characteristics within yourself. This will require some research, some careful self-reflection, self-awareness, and honesty. Include one goal behavior/action for each characteristic, that you will work to
accomplish within the next 3 to 6 months.
Be very specific. The more specific you can be about each goal (ie: what will this
require
of you, within yourself, and what you will do to "get there" on each one. Discuss your goal in terms of your strengths and weaknesses, and how these will impact your being successful in meeting your goal.
See below the 9 characteristics that need to be listed in the paper. This information can also be found in the textbook: The World of a counselor: Introduction to the counselors Profession by E. Neukrug, 2016 10th edition; Chapter 1: The Counselor’s Identity what who and how. Please be sure to use the textbook along with 3 other professional resources.
Characteristics of the Effective Helper
In 1952, Hans Eysenck examined 24 uncontrolled studies that looked at the effectiveness of counseling and psychotherapy and found that “roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not [italics added]” (p. 322). Although found to have serious methodological flaws, Eysenck’s research did lead to debate concerning the effectiveness of counseling and resulted in hundreds of studies that came to some very different conclusions, such as the following:
It is a safe conclusion that as a general class of healing practices, psychotherapy is remarkably effective. In clinical trials, psychotherapy results in benefits for patients that far exceed those for patients who do not get psychotherapy. Indeed, psychotherapy is more effective than many commonly used evidence-based medical practices.…( Wampold , 2010a, pp. 65–66)
But what makes counseling effective? First and foremost, factors such as re.
Best Learning Strategies For Pharma and Healthcare Marketers in 2010Wendy Blackburn
Eleven pharma and healthcare leaders set out to answer the question, "What 2 -3 key areas of learning should Pharma and Healthcare marketers focus on in 2010?"
The document recommends that Pharma and Healthcare marketers focus their learning in 2010 on establishing authentic conversations with e-Patients by authentically engaging in online patient communities, and that they learn the value of authenticity over superficial social media strategies by truly understanding patients' perspectives and experiences. It also emphasizes learning how to authentically contribute value to patient conversations without overt marketing.
This document is the introduction and literature review section of a master's thesis that examines spiritual leadership theories. It provides background on leadership theories that have developed over the last century, including the trait, behavioral, contingency, visionary/charismatic, transformational, and emotional intelligence schools of thought. It then reviews the emerging literature around spiritual leadership, defining key concepts like spirituality versus religion. The introduction outlines the purpose of studying current spiritual leadership theories and how organizations can benefit from considering employees' spiritual needs.
This document provides an overview of organizational behavior concepts including:
1. Definitions of organizational behavior focusing on understanding individual and group behavior to improve organizational effectiveness.
2. Frederick Taylor's scientific management approach which studied work efficiency and developed techniques like standardized jobs and piece-rate pay.
3. The contingency approach which recognizes there is no universal solution and behaviors depend on situational factors like culture and technology.
4. Key aspects of communication including encoding messages, decoding, potential for distortion, and the importance of feedback.
This document introduces the inaugural issue of the journal Motivational Interviewing: Training, Research, Implementation, Practice. It provides a brief history of publications related to motivational interviewing, from the original Motivational Interviewing Newsletter for Trainers to the current journal. It explains that the journal aims to provide an outlet for the worldwide MI community and allow communication among members. The introduction welcomes readers and contributors to share in the open and creative spirit that characterizes both MI and its community.
Kurt Lewin's three-phase change model involves unfreezing the current state, transitioning to a new state through change, and then refreezing the new state. Communication is key throughout the process to explain the need for change, implement new processes, and make the changes stick as the new norm. The document discusses Lewin's influential model and the importance of communication at each step of planned organizational change.
The Best Mindfulness Apps: Calm vs Headspace vs Waking Up vs ReflectlyQuekelsBaro
Inhale ... Exhale... In the midst of the pandemic, people are increasingly turning to mindfulness and meditation apps to regain a sense of calm. Why? Let's take a look.
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Mindfulness in the workplace: what is all the fuss about?
1. 20 Counselling at Work Autumn 2011
I
am aware as I sit down to write this article that
the first book on the application of mindfulness-
based interventions in organisations is due for
publication1
. This follows an Association for
Coaching conference in July2
, where the workshop
delivered by the book’s author, Michael Chaskalson,
attracted the largest attendance. Chaskalson,
along with Mark Williams, Ruby Wax and others
from the world of business, entertainment and
academia are due to speak at the first mindfulness
in the workplace conference in Cambridge, in
February 20122
. It seems therefore that there is
something of a fuss around mindfulness.
This crossover of mindfulness into organisational
practice is embryonic, yet ‘this fuss’ confirms Jon
Kabat Zinn’s observation in Mark Williams and
Danny Penman’s new book: Mindfulness: a
practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world,
that ‘... the world is abuzz with mindfulness’3
.
What a dramatic shift. It was only in 2005 that
Clare Pointon, whilst acknowledging the growing
interest in mindfulness, in Therapy Today, nonetheless
described mindfulness as marginal4
. In that same
article, Williams himself, co-founder of mindfulness-
based cognitive therapy (MBCT) suggested that
integrating mindfulness presented a challenge to
‘therapy as we know it’. A similar observation is
inferred in the therapeutic literature as recent as
April 2010, when Manu Bazzano, in Therapy
Today, echoed Williams’ assertion by describing
mindfulness as counter-culture5
. Contrast these
comments, however, with the headline of an
article in the Ashridge Business journal in spring
2011, in which Emma Dolman and Dave Bond
wrote: ‘The practice of mindfulness is increasingly
moving from the fringe to the mainstream, and
already features as a key part of international
management and organisation development
programmes’6
.
In this article I explore what the current ‘fuss’
is about and consider possible reasons why there
is a flurry of activity leading to a crossover of
mindfulness into the workplace and with what
implications. In doing this I draw heavily on a
decade’s experience in emotional intelligence (EQ)
and in writing and speaking about how this idea
moved out of potential scientific obscurity into
popular and organisational discourse7
. I do so, as it
is timely to consider the implications of all this fuss,
not only for counselling at work practitioners, but
in terms of the integrity of mindfulness-based
interventions. The question is, will mindfulness enjoy
a similar trajectory as EQ? And, in moving from
marginal to the mainstream, will it both gain and
lose something in the process? And does it matter?
Mindfulness and EQ: from fringe
to mainstream
When I began researching EQ in the workplace in
2000, my findings revealed that many organisations
were afraid to talk openly about emotions generally
and, particularly, about the idea of emotionally
intelligent leaders. I discovered that many were
subsuming EQ into competency frameworks and
using the language of high performance behaviours.
However, there were some pioneering organisations,
most notably those within the financial services
sector such as American Express and The Prudential
that were open about developing leaders’ capacity
to be emotionally intelligent8
. In essence, these
global corporations appeared to fully embrace Daniel
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Mindfulness in the workplace:
what is all the fuss about?
Margaret Chapman explores the shift from the marginal
to the mainstream and implications for practitioners
Margaret Chapman is a
chartered and registered
applied psychologist,
mindfulness and EQ
researcher, coach,
supervisor and
facilitator. She trained as
a mindfulness teacher at
Bangor University and is
a trustee of the Oxford
Mindfulness Centre. She
can be contacted at
mc@eicoaching.co.uk
2. Counselling at Work Autumn 2011 21
mindfulness
Goleman’s assertions that EQ capabilities, particularly
in leadership, mattered twice as much as IQ or
technical expertise. As Goleman asserted in his second
text in 1998, Working with Emotional Intelligence:
‘...the impact of emotional intelligence is greater at
the top of the leadership pyramid.’9
So how is it that a potentially obscure psychological
construct such as EQ and a counter-cultural idea such
as mindfulness are able to transition from the marginal
to the mainstream? Drawing on evidence from
exploring how EQ became central to an executive
development, an essential ingredient is the need for a
‘knowledge entrepreneur’ and the essential first step is
for this (usually male) guru to publish the first book on
the topic that speaks to the intended audience. In the
case of EQ, this was Daniel Goleman, and in terms of
mindfulness, this is set to be Michael Chaskalson’s The
Mindful Workplace: Developing Resilient Individuals
and Resonant Organisations.
Goleman’s first work, published in 1996, entitled
Emotional Intelligence: Why EQ matters more than
IQ, captured worldwide attention10
. In 1998, Goleman,
caught by surprise in terms of the corporate reaction
to that book, then translated those earlier ideas into
the language of business directly in Working with
Emotional Intelligence. To be assured of success,
however, a seminal book not only has to have a
catchy title, but needs to cite relevant research
evidence that taps into the current Zeitgeist11
.
This then has to go further by offering the potential
for being translated into practical interventions that
can deliver solutions to address the challenges
organisations face, at that particular moment in time.
In the noughties (00s) EQ was successful because it
was anchored to organisational performance through
leadership; in particular, ways in which emotionally
intelligent leaders could help their businesses
navigate increasing globalisation and an operating
environment characterised by euphemisms such as
downsizing, rightsizing and de-layering12
.
Today, the buzz words that proliferate the
globalised, 24/7 environments in which 21st century
businesses operate, (and that are aptly addressed in
the title to Chaskalson’s book) include: building
individual and organisational resilience; engaging
employees in an age of austerity, and addressing
the second biggest source of lost productivity, that
is workplace stress13
. Based on the emerging
research, mindfulness-informed interventions offer
the potential to do just that. Ample evidence is
provided, for example in the recent Mental Health
Foundation Report on Mindfulness in which Ed
Halliwell recommends that mindfulness interventions
should not only be a priority for the Government’s
mental health strategy, but that the evidence base
needs to be widened to show how mindfulness-
based interventions, such as MBCT and MBSR,
contribute to reducing stress at work14
.
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Buddhist tradition: ‘the mind can observe itself and understand its own nature’15
Jon Kabat Zinn translates benefits of Buddhist meditative practices and integrates Eastern philosophy and
Western science, through publication of Full Catastrophe Living in which he outlines the ground-breaking
programme, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale adapt MBSR and integrate with CBT in their book
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: a New Approach to Preventing Relapse
I Based on evidence from RCTs, MBCT becomes recognised by NICE for treating clients with three
or more episodes of depression
I Google designs and implements ‘Search Inside Yourself’, a model of ‘EQ’ development based on
mindfulness (Jon Kabat Zinn and Daniel Goleman are contributors)21
INSEAD report shows executive programmes that incorporate coaching and mindfulness,
result in greater likelihood of corporations acting with greater social responsibility (2010)
I Wendy Harvey publishes article ‘Mindfulness in Practice’ in Counselling at Work25
I Patrizia Collard and Gladeana McMahon publish article on ‘Mindfulness Based Cognitive Coaching’
(MBCC) in Coaching at Work27
Ed Halliwell publishes report on mindfulness for Mental Health Foundation as part of its ‘Be Mindful’ campaign14
Mark Williams and Danny Penman make MBCT accessible to popular audience with their publication:
Mindfulness: a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World3
I Michael Chaskalson publishes seminal text on MBSR applied to organisations: The Mindful Workplace:
Developing Resilient Individuals and Resonant Organizations with MBSR1
I Dolman and Bond, Ashridge Business School, publish article entitled ‘Mindful Leadership’6
Robinson College, Cambridge, inaugural conference ‘Mindfulness at Work’. Speakers include
Professor Mark Williams, Ruby Wax, Michael Chaskalson2
2,500 years +
1990
2002
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2011
2012
Table 1. From Buddhism to business. Key milestones in the transition of mindfulness from the marginal to the mainstream
CHADBAKER/PHOTODISC/THINKSTOCK
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Looking at the apparent speed by which mindfulness
is crossing over from the clinical into the organisational
field (indicated in milestones identified in table 1) it
appears that (to use Daniel Goleman’s 1998 words)
being mindful is now the new yardstick by which
pioneering organisations and their leaders are being
judged. Today’s leaders not only have to be emotionally
intelligent, but also mindful. An emotionally intelligent
mindful leader is one who, in an age of austerity, can
concurrently inspire employees to achieve more with
less; is concerned about employee wellbeing and
behaves with greater care and compassion.
The research evidence: building
the business case – exemplar
organisations
When looking at whether there is an increased flurry
of activity around a particular idea (referred to here
as the ‘fuss’) one way is to examine whether there
has been an increase in the volume of publications
in the popular, business and academic press. For
example, a simple search in 1999 on www.amazon.co.uk
using the term emotional intelligence, yielded only
six titles; in 2002, this rose to 63; 183 in 2006; 406
in 2009 and today (August, 2011), that same search
reveals 9,621. Jon Kabat Zinn observes a similar
spike in scientific publications with ‘mindfulness’ in
the title. The dramatic increase since 1982 (see
figure 1) led him to suggest that ‘It is apparent that
the field is growing exponentially [and that] its sheer
size represents a watershed.15
’
So, taking the example of how EQ moved from
the marginal to the mainstream, by being translated
into organisational and popular discourse, it did so as
a result of a number of social processes. First, Daniel
Goleman attended a conference in which the original
theory of emotional intelligence was being discussed.
He was a psychologist and science journalist writing
for the New York Times. With these combined skills,
Goleman was able to translate Peter Salovey and
John D Mayer’s original scientific theory from 1990
into everyday discourse. That spoke to a global,
(including corporate) audience16
. The popularity of
his 1996 text provided a snappy shorthand EQ that
grabbed popular attention. This fuelled a flurry of
activity described by Stephen Fineman, professor of
management at Bath University as a phenomenon17
.
This ‘fuss’ captured the attention of business,
through a plethora of seminars, conferences,
academic programmes, and spurned even more
books. Eventually the theory of EQ was translated
into consultant-led leadership interventions. EQ was
then further translated into specific organisational
contexts by HR specialists, speaking as it did to the
organisational problems of the day.
This wasn’t all, however. The phrase ‘emotional
intelligence’ diffused not only into organisational
practice, but into popular culture, the term being
referred to in Desert Island Discs (by Andy McNab);
soap operas (ITV’s Where the heart is) and even
posed as a question by the Queen of Mean, Anne
Robinson on The Weakest Link18
.
mindfulness
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mindfulness
Building the business case for
mindfulness: case studies –
pioneers with credibility
For any new idea to be taken up by organisations, it is
not enough for it to appear in a seminal book. To be
convinced of the business case, this has to be
accompanied by empirical evidence that includes
credible case examples of successful, high-profile
organisations that have gained positive results through
implementation. In the case of EQ, one of the most
cited organisations in the business press at the time was
the financial services organisation, American Express. In
2011, read any article or entry on the social networking
group, LinkedIn (Mindfulness in the Workplace and
Mindful Leadership)19
and the equivalent 21st century
organisations are companies such as Google, eBay,
Yahoo and Apple. These are pioneers in introducing
mindfulness, exemplar organisations that characterise
the 21st century business environment. These
pioneering organisations are, as in the case of EQ, no
longer in the financial services sector, but technology
firms that employ talented knowledge workers. These
employees demand different types of leaders. Couple
this with the voices of leading business schools, such as
INSEAD in Copenhagen and Ashridge in the UK20
and
the ingredients are right for heralding a shift in
mindfulness from the marginal to the mainstream.
Addressing the current corporate
Zeitgeist: mindfulness and
corporate social responsibility
The INSEAD report, published in 2008, looked at
ways in which organisations could be more socially
responsible. One of the features of the study looked
at executive education and the types of
interventions that would change managerial
behaviour. The findings revealed that:
I Standard executive education based on engaged
discussions and case analyses failed to facilitate
managers to shift towards higher probabilities to
make socially responsible decisions.
I Coaching programmes based on introspection and
meditation (mindfulness) techniques, without any
discussion about CSR topics, impacted significantly
on the probability of managers to act in a socially
responsible way.
I A ‘non-orthodox’ training intervention, based on
hatha yoga techniques (postures, relaxation etc),
produced a positive impact on socially responsible
behaviour.
Mindfulness and wellbeing
Whilst the INSEAD report suggests that mindfulness-
based leadership interventions offer the potential for
managers to act with greater care and compassion,
the authors of the Ashridge article suggest that the
world of business has been ‘won over by findings at
the American Institute of Health, the University of
Massachusetts and the mind-body medical institute
at Harvard’. The findings that are highlighted include:
I reduced costs of staff absenteeism caused by illness,
injury, stress
I improved cognitive function – including better
concentration, memory, learning ability and creativity
I improved productivity and improved overall staff
and business wellbeing
I reduced staff turnover and associated costs
I enhanced employer/employee and client relationships
I reduced health insurance premiums for the business
I a visible and tangible corporate responsibility stance
I enhanced employee job satisfaction.
What next? Implications for
practitioners
Whilst the crossover of mindfulness from the marginal
to the mainstream in organisations is embryonic,
nonetheless there is a lot of fuss around this seemingly
counter-cultural idea. The main reason is that
mindfulness-based interventions are being translated
into ways in which these unorthodox interventions
address the challenges organisations face at this
moment in time. One of the exemplar organisations
mentioned earlier that is successfully developing
emotional intelligence through mindfulness is Google.
Their programme ‘Search inside Yourself’ is based on
MBSR and includes a mix of the scientific, with
meditation and business expertise, and, to quote one
of the principal SIY’s teachers: ‘...within Google it is
working. For people who take the course, it makes a
difference in how they operate... how they
communicate. They learn they don’t have to leave
their emotions at the door when they come to work,
and that is big. If Wall Street Traders, for example had
more emotional intelligence, they might have realised
that the crazy derivatives they created, were wrong.’21
However, a note of caution; mindfulness, whilst
a low-cost intervention in financial terms, is an
experiential intervention that demands a high degree
of motivation and commitment. Thus there is a cost to
individuals – commitment to practice. This is currently
one of the key issues occupying commentators in the
field, as mindfulness moves from clinical to
organisational settings. In addition, there is a question
as to whether a cut-down version of the original
programme will yield similar results to those studies
based on the original configuration development by
Jon Kabat Zinn22
. A central concern is that the integrity
of mindfulness, as originally conceived, needs to be
protected. The early proponents argue that
interventions should be based on the structure and
shape of the original eight-week programme, that
comprises daily practice, interspersed with weekly two-
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hour led sessions and day-long integration of the
learning. In this respect, on whether or not a shortened
version will work, the jury is still out. However, evidence
is emerging that adapted versions, applied in the
workplace, to reduce stress, do work23
.
This is where the trajectory of mindfulness into the
workplace, differs from earlier configurations of EQ
programmes. Mindfulness interventions will take time to
embed as mindfulness cannot, as Jon Kabat Zinn
regularly asserts, be learned out of a book, attending a
seminar or going on a one-day workshop. Mindfulness
is an embodied practice. This means that in order to
implement mindfulness-based interventions, counsellors
in the workplace first need to experience and develop
their own mindfulness. There is no short cut. However,
from my own experience of developing my mindfulness
practice over the last three years, it does make a
difference personally and in working with clients; similar
benefits are reported in the psychotherapeutic
literature24
. It is well worth commencing the journey,
because, in the words of the originator of MBSR, Jon
Kabat Zinn: ‘We cannot stop the tide, but we can at
least learn to surf the waves.’
Mindfulness is moving from the marginal to the
mainstream because it speaks to the challenges of our
time, which are to build our own, employees’ and
organisational resilience. Mindfulness practice provides,
as Wendy Harvey, observes: ‘individuals with new ways
of responding to life’s experience and cultivating a
deeper sense of health and wellbeing.’25
Counter-cultural and unorthodox interventions may be
just what are needed to help ourselves and others ‘surf
the waves’. In so doing, mindfulness offers the potential
to address the gaps left by the shortcomings in EQ
interventions, that is, as Bazzano, Harvey and others
have observed, to really create the kinds of organisations
in which individuals thrive and that are fit to house the
human spirit26
. A goal, I am sure, that concerns all of us
engaged in facilitating health and wellbeing at work. I
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Useful websites
http://www.mindfulexperience.org
http://www.mindfulnet.org
http://www.bemindful.co.uk
University-based programmes and research
http://oxfordmindfulness.org
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness
http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/pgmindfulness/
whatismindfulness
Work-based articles on mindfulness
http://www.coaching-at-work.com