Mindful Leadership
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In Bedfordshire
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Bedfordshire
Mindfulness is an exciting field of study and it is attracting a lot of media and research attention. Read more Read less Mindful leadership is about cultivating and generating mindfulness at different levels in an organisation: It helps leaders improve their relationship with themselves, it fosters improved relationships with others, and it can be a catalyst for transformative change in an entire organisation. Cranfield is at the forefront of the scientific enquiry into what mindful leadership is; how it works and how it can benefit individuals and organisations.
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- Leadership
Course programme
This ten-week programme is designed to support leaders as they:
- Develop their individual practice of mindfulness
- Learn highly practical and science-based methods to build stronger relationships with others through mindfulness
- Generate innovative insight and creative solutions for their specific organisational challenges and use mindfulness to have a positive impact on themselves. their team, and the system within which they work simultaneously.
The ten weeks are structured as follows:
- A three-day residential workshop (see dates below)
- A cohort webinar to address specific organisation challenges
- Peer to peer coaching and mentoring so that learning continues to embed following the workshop
- An online portal with staged learning materials and implementation support
Additionally, all participants who complete the ten-week programme are invited to the Cranfield Mindful Leadership Symposium which is held in Autumn, annually.
Core content
Mindfulness begins with an individual’s capacity to be mindful. This is the ability to be focused; to be open-minded; and to hold multiple perspectives. These three characteristics of mindfulness benefit individuals directly – generating a natural resilience to stress; allowing mental and emotional space for innovation; and supporting better decision making. When mindful, leaders begin to consciously re-balance their behaviour from reacting to responding. Personal change becomes effortless and instantaneous.
But “no (wo)man is an island". Individuals at work don’t operate in a vacuum. Much of our work is interactive, and depends on others and on factors outside our immediate control. In addition to reaping the benefits of mindfulness to you as an individual, our goal is to help you create mindful teams and foster mindfulness for your entire organization. More than simply the sum of individual mindfulness, mindful organizations include processes and systems that demonstrate a capacity to be failure-free, to achieve an unusual level of operational excellence and to adapt rapidly to dynamic contexts. Valued outcomes such as organizational learning, organizational commitment and change-readiness improve.
LEARNING OUTCOMES- Enhanced personal mastery
- Greater alignment of personal and organisational values
- Insights into habitual ways of working that hold individuals and organisation in stasis, and practical ways to solve problems and make decisions in high pressure situations
- Improved relating with others in teams and across the organisation, reliably and respectfully
- Practical tools for high-impact interventions to support organisational change
Mindful Leadership