MANAGING ATTENTION AND AWARENESS FOR SUSTAINABLE EFFECTIVENESS

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1 THE PRAXIS CENTRE MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE MANAGING ATTENTION AND AWARENESS FOR SUSTAINABLE EFFECTIVENESS Transforming knowledge into action

2 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE For executives who want to raise their own resilience, make better decisions and manage organisations well in today s complex world Discover why the management teams at Google, Deutsche Bank, and Transport for London apply mindfulness practices to generate sustainable personal and team effectiveness. You can do the same. Join us for this innovative two day training course and find out what mindfulness looks and feels like for you, and how you can establish evidence-based habits for developing consistent clarity of thought. Learn to apply the science underlying mindfulness techniques to raise your resilience and capacity to deal with today s complex work challenges sustainably and intelligently. As a result you will make high-quality decisions and boost performance in your organisation. Here at the Praxis Centre we are committed to helping you benefit from the insight that increasing self-awareness and attention management serves to improve individual and organisational performance. We lead the field as an innovative centre of excellence in management development and have been responsible for pioneering many new approaches in the development of managers. We aim to focus our attention on the personal development of you who you are and who you can become. A 3-STEP FRAMEWORK TO CULTIVATING SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE THROUGH MINDFULNESS We will follow a step-by-step approach in this programme to help you better manage your own attention and awareness as well as move towards generating sustainable performance. 1 2 AttentioN Management Awareness Management continued cultivation 3 Sustainable Performance Start

3 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE Programme outline Mindfulness the capacity for managing attention and awareness in the moment with the intention to engage with it in an open mindset involves attending to the situation at hand in ways that are purposeful and flexible. The ability to be in the present moment releases the mind from automatic or habitual thought patterns that can generate tunnel vision and defensiveness, and ultimately burnout. Instead, mindfulness facilitates more innovative, productive and creative responses to new and complex challenges. This programme is based on the latest scientific evidence of what mindfulness is and how it can help cultivate the primary elements of sustained attention and awareness management. By participating in this programme, executives will learn how to raise their own resilience and make better decisions, and manage organisations well in today s complex world. The programme will take you on a journey of developing self-awareness and emotional intelligence using evidencebased mindfulness techniques. It will give you a comprehensive set of tools to develop clarity of thought both for yourself and for those you lead in your organisation. CRANFIELD RESEARCH The course facilitators are collaborating on an ongoing scientific mindfulness research programme at Cranfield University s School of Management. This research informs their mindfulness teaching, and helps them explore new ways of bringing mindfulness to people and organisations in a sustainable, compassionate, and effective way.

4 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE WHAT IS IT ABOUT? The programme focus is on the key domains of personal resilience and emotional intelligence, including self and social awareness, selfregulation and perspective-taking. We will integrate mindfulness practice with insights about the scientific foundation of the course content as well as outline and discuss with you how you can apply this to your personal leadership in your organisation and to team development. WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF IT? In this two-day residential course, you will follow a structured process that helps develop your attentional capacity, selfawareness and situational awareness. Using a series of activities based on scientific evidence, you will learn how to: WHAT WILL MY ORGANISATION GET OUT OF IT? The programme helps organisations address some of their most difficult challenges: Building resilience in times of rapid change Helping leaders solve not just technical but adaptive problems, for which there are no unambiguous answers Supporting people to thrive in a fast-paced and interconnected world without boundaries or Pause buttons Creating an inspired workplace that supports genuine human development Enhance your personal resilience and emotional intelligence Create the mind-body state that is at the heart of attention and awareness management Facilitate improved decision-making and higher performance in your work teams

5 PROGRAMME LEADERS Dr Jutta Tobias has about 15 years work experience in business consultancy, organisational development, and capacity-building in six countries on three continents. Dr Tobias serves on the faculty at Cranfield University School of Management. Her current research and teaching portfolio is focused on improving people s performance at work, by helping individuals develop their self-management skills, overcome obstacles in managing change and facilitating organisational learning, and improve managerial decision-making. She teaches on the full-time and executive MBA as well as on several executive and full-time Masters programmes at Cranfield. Per Norrgren is a Visiting Tutor at The Cranfield School of Management. He is currently engaged in a programme of research at Cranfield with Jutta Tobias, assessing the impact of mindfulness training on the performance, resilience, and decision-making of MBA students. Per trained as a mindfulness teacher with Bangor University Centre for Mindfulness and Breathworks CIC, and complies with the good practice guidelines of the UK Network for Mindfulness-based teachers. Having experienced the life-changing impact of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme for himself, Per has been passionately studying, training, facilitating and delivering mindfulness training in a variety of settings ever since.

6 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY OF APPROACH The programme is highly interactive and trains people to optimise performance, develop leadership skills and increase well-being. Each session is approximately one-third content and two-thirds skill training. Skill training includes individual, paired and group exercise consisting of attention training, active listening with verbal feedback, written exercises and practices to cultivate effective emotion regulation. As leaders become more senior they have to deal with difficult situations that require them to balance multiple considerations. Often there is no one right answer. In these circumstances you can t afford to dismiss perspectives simply because they are inconvenient or you disagree with them. Mindfulness forces you to pay attention to what s going on even when you don t want to. Dr Jutta Tobias Programme Leader (quoted by The Sunday Times)

7 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME CONTENT What mindfulness is, and what it isn t Mindfulness and organisational performance: What the scientific evidence tells us Cultivating mindfulness individually and in teams Changing mindsets Different enablers of mindfulness Mindfulness in leadership and how this may foster organisational development Some caveats for bringing mindfulness into organisations PROGRAMME DETAILS Visit: Contact: Faculty: Sue Bosher E: susan.bosher@cranfield.ac.uk T: +44 (0) Dr Jutta Tobias, Programme Leader Duration: 2 days, residential

8 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE WHO IS IT FOR? Leaders and senior executives, those taking on roles with increased complexity and responsibility High flyers who need to achieve a healthier work-life balance Individuals interested in bringing mindfulness into their organisations, to raise wellbeing and workplace performance Those seeking to experience work as more meaningful and productive, improve workplace relationships, increase ethical behaviour, and make perception more accurate People wishing to improve the quality of their listening and communicating skills

9 MINDFULNESS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE Leadership has always been about leading from the front and leading by example, the new effective leader in the modern world will also do that but start by leading from within. PER NORRGREN PROGRAMME LEADER

10 CRANFIELD MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE The Mindfulness for Higher Performance programme is held twice a year at the Cranfield Management Development Centre (CMDC). Full board accommodation (if required) and all sessions are usually held in this conference centre which has an established reputation for being one of the best centres in the country. Located in a rural setting on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border, CMDC is conveniently situated to the M1 motorway, railway stations and major airports. We even have an airport on site! TAKING CARE OF YOUR EVERY NEED We understand that development doesn t only happen in the lecture room. That is why the CMDC provides inviting lounge areas where you can network with your colleagues, restaurants that allow conversation to flow easily as you enjoy the excellent cuisine, and fitness facilities including a swimming pool, sauna and exercise room, to relax and invigorate you at the end of the day. A HOME FROM HOME After a hard day s learning, lie back and relax in one of the 186 modern en-suite bedrooms, all of which are designed to make you feel at home. The amenities include free broadband access, freeview television, a great working area with appropriate light and desk space and a music centre to help you unwind. Our residential Open Programme fees include tuition, course materials, full board accommodation and lifelong access to The Cranfield School Of Management Alumni Network.

11 Executives should use Mindfulness to clear their minds, calm their thoughts and concentrate on the task at hand, rather than letting their attention wander to other problems on their to-do list. This should improve their focus and, critically, their ability to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity DR Jutta tobias PROGRAMME LEADER (quoted by The Sunday Times)

12 YOUR CRANFIELD EXPERIENCE STARTS HERE The Praxis Centre Cranfield School of Management Cranfield, Bedford, England, MK43 0AL T: +44 (0)