Mindfulness in the Workplace

The short answer? Every member of the team! The long answer?

1. Team members who want to gain a better understanding of difficult problems and think innovatively
2. Team members who would like to learn how to better cope with difficult situations
3. Teams who feel they could work better together but need a guiding hand
4. Team members who feel they could communicate more effectively with others
5. Managers who wish to reduce conflicts in their teams
6. Those who are involved in reorganisation and downsizing
7. Team members who feel they could be more productive
8. Team members who feel they would benefit from being able to focus more effectively.
9. Managers who want to help create a positive, healthy working environment.

Thriving at Work is an independent review of mental health and employers by Lord Dennis Stevenson and Paul Farmer. If you don’t have time to read it all, the big takeaway - 'The cost to UK employers because of poor mental health is estimated as being between £33 billion and £42 billion a year.'

Taking care of your employees, and yourself, could make a huge dent in this statistic, and an even bigger growth in your turnover (we are talking money, not staff hopefully!) by providing them with the mindfulness tools they need to effectively communicate, feel empowered, creative, responsive rather than reactive and well both mentally and physically.