In days’ past, year-end planning and reporting was the order of the day as organizations took time to review their accomplishments, measure against goals and objectives, and prepare to execute new plans.
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What is Mindfulness? There has been a lot of buzz around this topic as we are in constant search for the desire to perform well and feel better. Ironically, we spend much of our lives, nearly half of our waking hours, in a state of mindlessness—functioning in autopilot. The antidote to mindlessness is in fact mindfulness—a conscious awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and surrounding environment. The past decade has seen a surge of research on the many benefits of mindfulness linking its practice to a host of positive outcomes, including improved psychological health, physical well-being, interpersonal relationships, and job performance. In fact, many employers who have supported a mindfulness practice among their employees have seen a marked increase in engagement and overall job satisfaction from the reported 87% disengagement at work reported via Gallup.
Read MoreAbout the same time I wrote my book, Powered by Happy, the phrase "Employee Engagement" was gaining traction. It was great timing as my book is truly centered around employee engagement but my reference is happiness. Why? Because it just works!
Read MoreIf we continue the theme of “Happiness Just Works” from my first blog, we must figure out the best way to connect with our employees and our leadership in making this go from a thought to reality. As I mentioned before, the worst thing you can do is an “Employee Engagement” survey and do nothing with the results. When employees fill this out, it is a GIFT. A gift for you, as a leader, to understand what your employees need in order to be happy and satisfied at work.
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