Leadership powered by Mindfulness - Level 1 for Beginners

Name: Leadership powered by Mindfulness - Level 1 for Beginners
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How to build leadership skills and mind skills more attuned to a complex and rapidly changing world

Created byStephen Presley, PhD

Last updated 12/2022

English

What you'll learn

Why leadership is so challenging today-The VUCA factors
Why certain mind skills are needed for leaders to up their game
Getting started with meditation as a means to build key mindskills that impact leadership
How to complete the rest of the course

Course content

1 section • 4 lectures • 27m total length

Getting Started: Five Powerful Ways to Power-Up Your Learning2:03
To get the most out of this course, one needs to try out and practices the various meditation, mindfulness, and leadership practices to see for yourself what works for you. These five learning tips can really make a difference in the quality and speed of learning and skill building that occurs.
Why Mindfulness and Meditation to Improve Leadership15:06
Since meditation and mindfulness are uncommon approaches to leader development, you'll go over the reasons and evidence so learners can be confident that the LpM approach can work for them. Some of the key charts used are provided in the Resources Tab.
Getting Started With Meditation9:09
In this lecture, you'll learn how to get started with meditation and start meditating using the guided meditation called Mindfulness of Breathing (1), a form of concentration.
We do this meditation because it builds and strengthens two mind skills, or aspects of your mind: Your ability to focus, and your ability to notice when you've been distracted. This second ability, known as metacognitive awareness, is the skill you use to see how your mind operates. It's the skill that allows you to see aspects of how your mind works that you couldn't see before. Seeing what you couldn't see before is what will lead you to make mind changes that you couldn't make before, changes that will improve a variety of areas central to performance, leadership, and good outcomes.
Establishing Your New Meditation Practice: The Learning Feedback Loop1:38
Since daily practice is required to build the new skills that meditation and mindfulness offer, use the techniques covered in the next three videos to get your practice moving in the right direction so it becomes a new habit.

Requirements

A desire to improve your understanding of leadership and ability to lead
No previous experience with meditation and mindfulness required
A willingness to learn about and work with your mind as a way to improve performance and outcomes

Description

Work and lead more effectively by learning to use your mind differently, by aligning it better to today’s complex world, and by expanding your leadership skills with state-of-the-art leadership practices that tap into everyone's contributions.

What's unusual about the LpM course is its inclusion of mind development practices and leadership elements. Why do this? Because of the cognitive and emotional demands we now face from a complex and rapidly changing world – those demands are really challenging us. At times they can seem overwhelming. You’ve probably heard Einstein’s famous saying that you can’t solve [big] problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. I think it is undeniable today that we need to see and think differently, especially when it comes to leadership. We need to upgrade our minds to understand better and deal with today’s complex challenges. After all, these challengers certainly have been upgraded regarding their volatility and complexity.

THIS FREE PORTION of the LpM course comprises the first seven lectures from section 1 of the full LpM course on our upgradingleaders website. Here's the overall structure of the free portion.

- Why meditation and mindfulness as a means to improve leadership

- Research findings on meditation and mindfulness and how they relate to leadership

-How to get started meditating.

The full LpM course is comprised of the following five sections.

- Section 1: Overview and Getting Started

- Section 2: Going Deeper with Meditation and Mindfulness

- Section 3: Defining Leadership

- Section 4: Compassion and Leadership

- Section 5: Integrating Your Learning

Whether you are a working professional, manager, or senior executive, if you are interested in improving your leadership, I encourage you to take a look at this uncommon and effective approach. You can find the full LpM course at our upgradingleaders website.

I wish you the very best in your efforts to learn and grow.

Stephen Presley, PhD

Founder of Upgrading Leaders

Who this course is for:

Leaders and Professionals
New and experienced managers
Team and project leaders
Project managers
Hi-Potentials
Individuals in organizations who want to improve their performance and their mind
Meditators who want to add a bit more leadership skills to their skill set