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Practical Mindfulness for Business Success: Be More Mindful

Name: Practical Mindfulness for Business Success: Be More Mindful
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Learn The Neuroscience Of Mindfulness, The Ancient Discipline of Mindfulness & Practical Mindfulness For A New You!

Created byPeter Alkema, Melanie Britz

Last updated 11/2024

English

What you'll learn

Cultivate improved relationships at work and at home
Be able to apply various mindful techniques to improve productivity and focus
Be more resilient in the face of challenges, mistakes and perceived negative events
Use new cutting edge problem solving and time scheduling techniques to improve creativity and workflow
Be able to deal with mental, emotional and physical stress better
Understand the transformational, bottom-line, Return on Investment (ROI)-improving role of modern mindfulness in a corporate or entrepreneurial environment
Have a catalogue of practical mindfulness techniques to apply to and improve their everyday work-life
Improve their general sense of fulfillment, happiness and life satisfaction

Course content

12 sections • 46 lectures • 5h 57m total length

Introduction8:38
Let's Celebrate Your Progress In This Course: 25% > 50% > 75% > 100%!!1:20
Throughout this course we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>
Meet Your Instructors: Melanie - Journey From Little Miss "What's Next?" to Here6:38
Meet your instructors!
In this video, Melanie shares a bit about her journey into Mindfulness as she goes from
being named little Miss "What's Next?"
to studying the concept of Time after finishing writing her first book
and in the process discovering Mindfulness
and eventually developing various tools and techniques to share this in a practical way with thousands of students across the globe.
Meet Your Instructors: Peter - Real World Business Acumen Meets Presence5:33
Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us About Your Mindfulness Journey0:21
This is your opportunity to share something about yourself with the rest of the students in this course. Tell us all about your goals and what you want to achieve. You can come back to this board and add more thoughts as you go through the course and achieve your goals. Seeing all the other students in the course will also motivate you and keep you going as you participate in this community of learning.
Wipeboard Lesson: Overview Of The Practical Mindfulness Course8:34

What Mindfulness Is And Why It Is Revolutionising The Workplace Right Now22:33
In this Lesson, we look at three definitions of Mindfulness that helps us understand it better, as well as its origins and how modern mindfulness is currently revolutionising the workplace. We also discuss what mindfulness is not and start learning a first Mindfulness Practice using the Breath.
Combatting Constant Connectivity By Adding More Real Life To Your Life5:43
It is important to combat the negatives of constant device connectivity by putting yourself into Flight mode (disconnecting from your devices and technology) for a few hours every week. In this lesson, we discuss the challenges of our device dependency on our health, wellbeing and mindfulness and why the practice of disconnecting is beneficial based on how we were designed to operate.
You've Achieved 25% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 50% >>0:24
Throughout this course we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>
Learn To Create Richly Textured Moments - A Key To Fulfilment And Happiness13:32
Learning the Art of the richly textured moment is the key to fulfilment and happiness.
In this lesson, you will learn the difference between a flat, one-dimensional moment and a richly textured one, and we practice how to start adding those textures and meanings into any moment, even small, insignificant ones, more of the time.
We look at two Ancient Greek words for time and how their concepts can help us live more satisfying lives and how to stop skipping over our moments in search of some future moment we believe will be better than this one.

Quadruple Your Productivity And Creativity With These 3 Easy Mindfulness Hacks6:54
In this lesson, we look at three easy and practical ways to bring more mindfulness into your work-day that will quadruple your productivity and creativity.
Using the latest groundbreaking research we identify three hacks that will make a big difference in helping you get into an optimum performance state, better able to focus, innovate and do quality work.
Your Body And Mindfulness - 3 Practices For A Happier, Healthier Body and Mind10:47
In this lesson, we look at
how we can use awareness of posture, breathing and movement to give us valuable information about our state of being, our stress levels and our moods.
how to mindfully reconnect with your body in this moment
a special one-minute Mindful Stretching Routine developed for us by Registered Physiotherapist Ula Gillion to help us reset the tension that builds up in our muscles when we sit at our desks for long periods at a time.
Mindful Scheduling And Time Blocking - The Secret To Easy Peak Productivity5:44
In this lesson, we look at your internal body cycles and rhythms (including your ultradian and circadian rhythms) and three ways to align and schedule your day with these for easier peak performance.
Discover your own personal peak performance times by using the Peak performance tool at www.peakperformancequiz.com/ignite80 to figure out when you are naturally most productive.
Becoming Mindful Of How You Are Really Using (And Wasting) Your Time8:23
In this lesson, we look at two ways to start tracking how focussed and productive you are being in your work life, how you are using your time and what your habits are regarding your work and internet usage and why it is important to be more aware of this.
Either download the Mindful time log worksheet to do this manually or use the initially free app Rescue Time (www.rescuetime.com) for a two-day digital audit. Then set aside some time for introspection using the third page of the worksheet to take a look at your Time Use Patterns and how they could be improved, even in small ways.
You've Achieved 50% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 75% >>0:29
Throughout this course we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>
Mindful Email: Doing It Wrong Severely Impacts Your Work Quality.3:50
Managing your emails more mindfully is the key to higher work quality and less stress.
In this lesson, we look at some research on how your email habits are affecting your work focus and productivity and we learn how to manage them better to lessen 'switch cost', and not let them manage you.
Tap Into Your Intuitive Problem-solving Ability With This Step-by-Step Exercise
Resiliently Dealing With Mistakes And Negative Events - Mindful Mental Hygiene10:09
Mindfulness is a great antidote to a often counterproductive evolutionary tendency of ours to cascade small negative events through our value systems and overemphasise their importance - a built-in negativity bias.
In this lesson on Mindful mental hygiene, we learn how to restrict the meaning we are ascribing to a problem, mistake or perceived bad thing to just the present, by applying mindfulness to the research and teachings of Jordan Peterson and Daniel Kahneman.
Mindfully Switching Your Brain Mode For Increased Business Success7:57
Beyond the health risks which eventually will affect your productivity and happiness, stress and worry have another negative side effect and that is their role in affecting your brain mode.
Stress takes up mental bandwidth and switches our brains from Exploratory mode to Exploitatory mode (a type of autopilot). In this lesson, we learn how Exploratory mode is linked to business success, creativity, innovative and focussed out-of-the-box thinking and how to start switching your brain mode today.
How technology makes mindfulness more challenging.5:43
You've Achieved 75% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 100% >>0:31
Throughout this course we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>
Powerful mindful problem solving19:43
Mindful balance6:39

Mindful Relationships Help You Get The Most Out Of Engaging With Other People7:12
In this lesson, you will learn how to cultivate better and more rewarding relationships by focussing on three principles of mindful relationships, namely
Active Listening,
Being aware of your own Triggers, and
practising Generosity.
Mindful Social Media3:45
In this lesson on Mindful Social Media, we look at the downsides of being the reward-based social creatures we are and five ways to practice more discernment in how we use Social media on a daily basis.

Establishing Mindful Habits by Balancing Your Mental and Emotional Balance Sheet6:45
In this lesson, we bring everything we learned in the previous lessons together. You will learn how to put together all the tools you added to your Mindful toolkit during this course, to start creating new habits to balance your daily Mental and Emotional bank account in a mindful sense.
You've Achieved 100% >> Let's Celebrate! Remember To Share Your Certificate!!1:04
Throughout this course we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

What is mindfulness?3:28
Mindfulness 'where i am, when i am, as i am'3:22
Why do we need be more mindful?7:21
What is "The art of the richly textured moment"3:54
what is time and why is it important for mindfulness3:01
What are the practical techniques that people can learn4:22
What about mindfulness in hybrid working?4:32
Create a conducive environment for working and studying when disruptions8:23
Mindfulness in the workplace8:00
How about mindfulness for writers8:12

Requirements

You don't need any prior knowledge or experience. In the course you will learn and practice everything you need to know.

Description

We live in a time where constant connectivity offers amazing opportunities to have access to wonderful moments from all over the world, almost limitless entertainment, and information on demand.

And yet we have never been more stressed, unbalanced or experiencing life on autopilot...

PRACTICAL MINDFULNESS FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS is a course in which game-changing research on neuroscience, focus and productivity has been curated in a practical and easy-to-understand way.

Combining this insightful modern research with the ancient discipline of Mindfulness gives you as a business owner, employee or entrepreneur the opportunity to take your business activities to new heights, but also to experience greater feelings of well-being, lower levels of stress and an improved sense of life satisfaction.

With a varied toolkit of practices and techniques that don’t focus primarily on meditation, this course is perfect for anyone who wants to experience everyday life with more self-awareness and presence.

In the course, you’ll explore the origins of and latest spins on Mindfulness, and begin to understand why Mindfulness is revolutionising the business world right now. Big corporations like Google, Goldman Sachs and Intel are increasingly focussing on mindfulness programs because it is the exact medicine that our fast-paced stressed-out lives need, and in search of greater productivity, success and employee satisfaction companies are realising this.

They are seeing the benefits of their mindfulness investment in bottom-line Return on Investment (ROI), and so can you!

You will learn a unique Mindful Problem-solving Technique that allows you to tap into your awesome intuitive problem-solving capabilities.

You will also be taught a Mindful Stretching Routine to do right at your desk, which was specially developed for this course by a Registered Physiotherapist, to enable you to effectively dispel tension building up in your muscles when you sit for prolonged periods of time.

· How to deal mindfully with email and Social Media,

· why Purposeful Procrastination is the key to creativity

· how to build Resiliency by practising mindful Mental Hygiene when confronted by a mistake or perceived negative event, and

· how to switch your brain from Exploitatory mode to Exploratory mode for more innovative bandwidth...

These are just some of the varied and interesting topics you will explore on this journey into Practical Mindfulness.

Every lesson comes with a different practice that will add another tool to your Mindfulness toolkit and you will learn how to put together all these tools to create new habits to balance your daily Mental and Emotional bank account in a mindful sense.

This course will guide you step-by-step in how to start adding more richly textured moments to your life and how to make the most of your natural rhythms, time-blocking that works and mindful scheduling for easy peak performance.

The main advantage of this course is that it is imminently practical and that it includes easy-to-do steps that will make a big difference to your focus, productivity, overall happiness and stress levels.

By the end of the course, you will:

know how to add rich textures to more of your moments,
be self-aware about your state of being more often and
have begun developing beneficial mindful habits that can last a lifetime.

This course comes with over 2 hours of video-based lessons encapsulated in bite-size training, worksheets and downloadable resources.

You can progress at your own pace, as fast or as slow as you’d like and you can study anywhere, anytime, using any device.

Who this course is for:

Entrepreneurs, managers or employees that want to deal with and balance their modern day work/life stress better
Employees or entrepreneurs that want to learn practical techniques and habits to be more productive, creative and happy at work
Anyone that wants to apply mindfulness to cultivate better relationships with clients, colleagues and their families
Remote or hybrid workers finding it challenging to focus and separate their work or private life moments or are finding life bland and boring
Managers that want to learn how to improve their employee engagement and productivity, and how mindfulness is transforming the modern day workplace
Anyone who wants to learn the art of experiencing richly textured moments to improve their happiness, satisfaction and overall wellbeing

Practical Mindfulness for Business Success: Be More Mindful

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Introduction And Overview of the Course6 lectures • 31min

Understanding Mindfulness And Its Beneficial Role In Our Business Lives4 lectures • 42min

Using Mindfulness To Up Your Productivity And Effectiveness At Work12 lectures • 1hr 27min

Mindfulness In Your Everyday Life2 lectures • 11min

Mindfulness And Hybrid Working: Practical Techniques To Be More Present3 lectures • 13min

Test your knowledge now to achieve your goals!0

Case Studies Of Mindfulness In The Workplace: Intel, Asana, Goldman Sachs3 lectures • 10min

Extra Insights: Parenting, Meditation, Nature And More3 lectures • 21min

Bringing It All Together - Balancing Your Mental And Emotional Balance Sheet2 lectures • 8min

Extra Insights From A Live Mindfulness Webinar Q&A With Peter & Melanie10 lectures • 55min

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