Mindful Leadership Program

Team leaders and managers have the most challenging role in professional and business services.

As a team leader and manager you drive business performance. You are responsible to the client, to senior leadership and to your team.

As a team leader you are responsible for

  • a high-quality deliverable while inspiring your team members to deliver on time and on budget

  • onboarding, on the job training of new team members

  • the wellbeing and performance of your team members

  • managing client expectations and pushing back when the client asks for requests beyond the scope

In your efforts to deliver results you face a lot of pressure and get squeezed balancing the expectations of your client, your team members and your business leaders.  

During the pandemic burnout for managers increased 80%. Heavy workload was the most frequently cited woe associated with burnout.

Under normal circumstances, it is challenging to be a leader within a high-performance organization. In our extraordinary times, the potential for stress and mental health challenges is off the charts. Typically, it is team leaders like yourself who bear a disproportionate amount of stress and are highly likely to experience burnout.

And if you are dealing with stress and burnout, it will impair your performance.

You will potentially struggle with indecision, bad decisions, analysis-paralysis, over busyness, micro-managing, disorganization, conflict, or lack of inspiration and leadership.

If you are stressed it will create high levels of stress, anxiety, rework, and poor quality work for the team. Your team may miss deadlines or go over budget resulting in unsatisfied clients.


The good news is that you can achieve success and become the driving force behind your business with transformational leadership training.

A Wharton study confirms that managers have 3X the impact on business performance than team members.

Effective leadership ensures you stay at the top of your game. Promotions allow you to transition into leadership roles that enables you to fulfill their potential. As a team managers if you are more inspiring and empowering you have a more positive impact on their team's performance. So understanding the causes of stress and learning the skills to perform under pressure helps you sustain high performance for yourself and your team members.

 

It’s time to take a fresh look at your transformational power as a team leader.

You are a powerful part of your organization’s success.

Managers and professionals don’t simply respond to what’s happening but rather work together to bring out the best in one another.

And that ongoing collaboration contributes to your team and your organization’s purpose and results.

Transforming into a leader and catalyst for team performance

It’s possible for team leaders and manager to thrive even under intense stress and pressure and be the catalyst of great team performance.

Mindful leaders are more inspiring and empowering and have a positive impact on team performance. When you understand the causes and effects of poor leadership and learn the skills to perform under pressure it will help you sustain high performance.

 

Being a more engaging, empowering, and inspiring team manager positively impacts your team members.

You increase your focus and clarity while preserving your sense of wellbeing and bringing out the best in your team members.

You reduce stress, avoid burnout and improve your performance levels.

 

If you are fully present on the job, you will become more effective as a leader, you will make better decisions and you will work better with and inspire your team members to achieve higher levels of performance.

As a team manager you will be better at leading yourself, leading others, and leading the team.

A deeper understanding of self and others enables teams leaders and managers to better influence others. Team leaders who lead themselves are more inspiring, empowering and positively impact their teams. Team leaders who build skills to perform under pressure enhance not only their own performance but also that of their team. 

 
 

Lead Yourself

You are more focused and can sustain peak performance states. You have enhanced clarity and inner calm in uncertain times. You gain emotional awareness to support better decisions and behaviors.

Lead Others

You are more resilient and motivated to better engage and lead others. You develop your mindset and skills to be more adaptive. You are able to elevate motivation, meaning, and relationships at work.

Lead the Team

You have deeper connections and more influence and impact on teams. You develop high-performance standards within your teams and lead through a culture where the people on your teams thrive.

 

Become a Great Leader,

Not just a Good Manager.

 

Introducing:

The Mindful Leadership Program

The Mindful Leadership Program is designed to increase the resilience and elevate the performance capability of leaders and managers in the face of the challenging business dynamics.

The program teaches mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills that lead to:

1. Enhanced individual wellbeing and resilience,

2. Improved team collaboration and performance, and;

3. Expanded team leadership capacity.

The Program Experience

Mindful Leadership Program is a transformational learning experience for leaders and managers. You will come out of this experience with deep confidence and convocation in your ability to lead your people and teams. You will get strategies, systems and tools to create lasting change. It will allow you to access your own capabilities and intuition as a leader.

This program is designed to be a profound, defining, game changing experience.

You will discover and tackle the obstacles and challenges that have been holding you back from positive emotions, motivation, relationships, meaning, and achievement in your professional lives.

  • Six training sessions led by Gautam Deviah with up to 30 participants. Each session is 60-90 minutes and is scheduled on a convenient weekly / bi-weekly cadence. 

  • Science-based content, business case studies, team exercises, and individual practices which the program is accessible, relevant, and application-focused.

  • Implementation workbook and online resources to follow along with the session and to support immediate application of the skills and tools. 

  • A follow-up facilitated Implementation Workshop and Coaching focused on implementation ensures we keep the momentum going and address any unanswered questions.

Session

#1 - Mindfulness and Focused Presence

Agenda

  • Peak Performance and Stress Triggers

  • Neuroscience of Mindfulness

  • Focused Attention practices

Outcomes

Identify the stress triggers and manage your performance; Increased ability to focus and more accurate self-awareness. Enhance clarity and inner calm in volatile and uncertain times

#2 - Self-Awareness and Emotional Resilience

  • Wisdom of Emotions

  • Emotional Resilience

  • Emotional awareness & resilience practices

More accurate self-awareness; Develop emotional fitness & resilience and tap into your embodied wisdom. Gain emotional awareness to support better decision making

#3 - Self-Management and Cognitive Resilience

  • Conscious Leader model

  • Reframing model

  • Cognitive Resilience practices

Grow mindset and cognitive skills to be adaptive and resilient.  Less susceptibility to stress and greater resilience to meet daily challenges 

#4 - Motivation and Purpose

  • PERMA model and Flourishing 

  • Purpose, Values, and Vision

  • Flow State; Success and Fulfillment

Grow engagement, relationships and meaning at work. Improved sense of wellbeing and meaning in life and work

#5 - Empathy and Teams

  • Psychological Safety, Empathy and Trust

  • Effective Teaming

  • Connection and Compassion practice

Build trust and high-performance standards on teams. Strengthened ability to understand and influence team members; Higher-functioning teams with better communication and compassion

#6 - Leadership and Culture

  • Difficult Conversations model

  • Effective Feedback

  • Leadership Commitment exercise

Increased ability to maintain poise and the courage to step into challenging situations. Step into leading change and create a thriving team culture

What results can you expect?

Performance & Leadership

Wellbeing & Resilience

  • Greater mental clarity, creativity, and insights

  • Strengthened ability to understand and influence team members

  • Better and wiser decision-making

  • Higher-functioning teams through enhanced communication and empathy

  • Increased ability to maintain poise and the courage to step into challenging situations

  • Increased ability to focus on one thing at a time

  • Greater and more accurate self-awareness

  • Improved sense of wellbeing and meaning in life and work

  • Less susceptibility to distractions, overwhelm and stress

  • Greater resilience and mental readiness to meet daily challenges