Mindfulness and HR Professionals

Organizations are Changing

Forward-thinking companies are looking for innovative ways to enhance organizational excellence and well-being. All of these programs allow your employees to gain the skills and competencies necessary to excel in today’s ever-changing business environment.

Why is Mindfulness essential for HR professionals?

Life is stressful, and Human Resources (HR) professionals are no exception.  The American Institute for Stress (yes, there is such an organization) has done some research. They have concluded that approximately 80% of American workers say that their main cause of stress is work-related.  Half the workers said they needed help learning how to manage stress better.

Let’s face it, many tasks in the HR profession are geared to focus on the negative.  You often get caught between trying to help the employees and your obligation to serve the organization.  HR professions require competencies that span a wide range of skills, from emotional intelligence to analytical and problem-solving to effectively communicating.  This can be overwhelming, and learning how to balance everything can be very stressful.

Why Mindfulness?

Our minds are really good at scanning and looking for danger:  physical, social, financial danger etc…  When danger is perceived, our focus is locked onto that experience or situation.  This is helpful in some instances, but when we are not aware of what our mind is doing, it can hijack our focus and remain focused on dangers that do not exist.  Being Mindful is about becoming more aware of what is happening around us AND within us (in our minds and bodies). We can then consciously decide to act in a manner that may be more helpful and productive versus reacting to a situation or experience automatically.  This awareness or Mindfulness allows us to take charge of our lives then and move in a direction we want to move in instead of just getting caught up in a negative emotional state.

Taking a Different Approach

We all want to succeed and achieve. Unfortunately, many professionals still believe that being tough and pushing themselves and/or others around is the only way to “make things happen” and “achieve success.”  They want to “make it to the top,” and being tough is the only way.  Science tells us this is not true.  This approach damages us physically and mentally, resulting in high anxiety, depression, stress and physical illness.  The good news is that the latest findings in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience show us a different approach; a Mindful and Compassionate approach.

Our 4 Steps to Balance™ programs are designed to help professionals better deal with the challenges of their day-to-day work lives through Mindfulness.  Becoming more balanced and resilient allows us to have that stable platform from which we can move in any direction we choose with greater ease and less stress.  We actually achieve more and are better able to direct our lives in the direction that we want.

In a nutshell, Mindfulness has been scientifically shown to have many benefits, not the least of which are:

• Reduced Stress and Increased Well-being
• Increased Focus and Productivity
• Increased Creativity and Innovation
• Better Customer/Client Service and Focus
• Improved Communication Skills
• Fosters Teamwork and Collaboration

The great news is that everyone can learn to improve.  Mindfulness is a foundational skill that enables all others, and that is why all our professional development courses have Mindfulness at their core.  Our courses focus on teaching you the 4 Steps to Balance™ approach FIRST and THEN bring in other approaches which allow you to APPLY these other skills more effectively in the real world.

Our 4Steps™ approach will train you so you can develop this skill.