“For me, the adventure starts when everything goes wrong”
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The Mindful Manager

Mindfulness and Psychological Safety within the workplace is a strategic approach to unlocking corporate culture enjoyment and driving business success.

Incorporating Mindfulness into the culture leads to a more resilient, adaptable and positive work environment which fosters the ability to create Psychological Safety.

Benefits of Psychological Safety in the workplace

  1. Improved Innovation and more ideas
  2. Reduces Turnover – Team members who feel psychological safety are less likely to leave
  3. Higher employee productivity -Creating psychological safety in the workplace can lead to a 12% increase in productivity
  4. Cultivating Collaboration and Teamwork
  5. A more motivated, satisfied and dedicated work force
  6. Employee Well being – Reduced stress/Absenteeism
  7. Increased Profit

Benefits of Mindfulness in the work place

  1. Reduced stress levels and burnout prevention
  2. Improved emotional regulation and conflict resolution.
  3. Enhanced focus, productivity and cognitive abilities.
  4. Greater job satisfaction and employee engagement.
  5. Better work life balance and physical health

Mindfulness brings awareness to participants of how they are, it develops the ability to view their perceptions, beliefs and perspectives from a broader view. This broader view takes them out of limiting belief systems and creates a more harmonious way of being, it creates strong internal resources that help cultivate the ability to see challenges as that challenges, as opposed to a threat. Mindfulness brings a sense of happiness, cultivates harmonious relationships internally and externally .

Team Psychological safety is a shared belief held by members of a team that it is OK to take risks, to express their ideas and concerns, to speak up with questions and to admit mistakes – all without the fear of negative consequences. Its permission for candour. – Any Edmondson Harvard Business school. It describes a manager that can cultivate a team climate characterised by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.

“Culture isn’t something you can build up and then ignore. At Netflix, we are constantly debating our culture and expecting it will continually evolve. To build a team that is innovative, fast, and flexible, keep things a little bit loose. Welcome constant change.” – Reed Hastings