Efficiency in the Workplace Mindset Mastery and Meditation | BrightonSEO 2019 | Pole Star Digital
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The document discusses the impact of mindset and mental health on workplace efficiency, highlighting that a proactive internal environment is crucial for productivity. It emphasizes the role of modern meditation as a practice to improve mental clarity and reduce emotional blockers, ultimately enhancing creativity and focus. Additionally, it addresses the importance of self-awareness and observation in managing our habitual thoughts and feelings to foster a more effective working state.
Efficiency in the Workplace Mindset Mastery and Meditation | BrightonSEO 2019 | Pole Star Digital
- 1. SLIDESHARE.NET/ELLAGUNSON EFFICIENCY IN THE WORKPLACE: MINDSET MASTERY AND MEDITATION BRIONY GUNSON // POLE STAR DIGITAL // @BRIONYGUNSON
- 3. BY DAY…. Ensure my colleagues have sufficient time, resource and support to carry out their work to the best of their ability Operations Director BY NIGHT… Facilitating modern meditation courses and workshops around stress reduction, flow, creativity and wellbeing Modern Meditation Trainer
- 4. Common sense is not so common Voltaire
- 5. Why is this important?
- 6. Many factors influence our productivity and efficiency levels. They fluctuate all the time! #WeAreNotMachines
- 7. “Working conditions and environment can have a huge impact on mental health and, equally, someone’s mental health can have a significant impact to perform well in their job.”
- 8. Knowing what conditions you best work under is very important… But this talk focuses on our internal environment, rather than external.
- 9. Mental ill health costs employers in the UK £35 billion every year through lost production, recruitment and absence *Source:Centre for Mental Health - centreformentalhealth.org.uk
- 10. One in eight UK employees experience mental health problems in the workplace *Source:Mental Health Foundation- mentalhealth.org.uk
- 11. Taking ownership of our internal world
- 13. When we talk about efficiency, we are often focused on the final step: output. But our mindset has a huge influence on our productivity…
- 14. All sorts of negative and unhelpful thinking can cause us to get in our own way
- 15. It is harder for us to achieve states of creativity and focused attention, but it’s needed now more than ever. Cal Newport, Deep Work
- 16. Hello! Where is your attention right now?
- 17. Hello! Where is your attention right now? Thanks to smart phones, we lose our attention 6-10 times per minute #LessThanAGoldFish
- 18. Understanding the value and role of emotions
- 19. “Emotions” are complex biological signals in the body (e-motions) “Feelings” are our cognitive awareness and identification of those emotions in the body
- 20. We touch upon our beliefs and values particularly when we do creative work.
- 21. We touch upon our beliefs and values particularly when we do creative work. This is why we often experience a range of emotions during the creative process…
- 22. We touch upon our beliefs and values particularly when we do creative work. This is why we often experience a range of emotions during the creative process…
- 23. If feelings directly influence our actions, we had better have an awareness of “who” is at the control panel! #SparkJoy
- 24. By the time we are 35 years old, 95-98% of our thoughts, feelings and actions are pre-programmed
- 25. The mind is a record of our past experiences…
- 26. We so often run on autopilot… Do you know where you’re headed?
- 27. What thoughts, feelings and behaviours are you giving your attention to? #BadWolfGoodWolf
- 28. For example…
- 30. Where attention goes, energy flows…
- 31. Our past experiences can dominate our present thinking and feeling… Emotional blockers can cause us to get in our own way! Task
- 32. Task Without awareness of our mindset, pre-programmed thoughts and feelings can begin to play out, causing reactive behaviour and undesirable results
- 33. The Mind and Body Connection Our mindset plays a huge role in our productivity and efficiency at work. The Mind-Body Connection Our mind and body are a connected system; it’s a two-way feedback loop…
- 34. Even mild but sustained stress can cause a rapid and dramatic loss of cognitive and creative abilities. It also plays havoc on our body’s systems…
- 35. Task State of emergency ≠ State of efficiency
- 36. Top Tip: be upfront with your mindset • Remember: a problem shared is a problem halved • Suitable setting, right audience, e.g. trusted colleague, line manager, senior staff, HR • Courage, openness and patience
- 37. But only you can reduce these emotional blockers…
- 38. A highly effective solution?
- 43. #MakeHappyWork What is Modern Meditation? Simple but effective practices where we focus the attention of the mind on different objects. Then we apply the skills of increased awareness to every day life…
- 44. The Mind and Body Connection Our mindset plays a huge role in our productivity and efficiency at work. How does meditation work? A precious opportunity to reduce external stimuli, to pause, to observe, to become familiar with ourselves, to build the mind-body connection and hone mental faculties – just like building a muscle…
- 45. “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” Donald Hebb
- 46. When meditating, our brain is effectively being rewired. It also allows body systems to reset, switching off the stress response, and freeing up energy for other tasks, e.g. cleaning and healing.
- 47. You can try it now
- 48. Recap of what we’ve covered
- 49. #1 actions are the products of our thoughts and feelings (mindset)
- 50. #2 most of our actions are habitual – pre-programmed based on past experiences Without being consciously aware of our thoughts, feelings and actions, we get stuck in patterns of habitual behaviour…
- 51. Task State of emergency ≠ State of efficiency #3 if left unchecked, unhelpful thoughts and feelings can scupper our productivity
- 52. It is harder for us to achieve states of creativity and focused attention, but it’s needed now more than ever. Cal Newport, Deep Work
- 53. #4 self observation gives invaluable insight • Meditation • Journaling • Psychometric profiling • Colleague and client feedback • Push outside your comfort zone
- 55. Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world.
- 56. Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world. David Lynch
- 57. Thank you for listening Briony Gunson SLIDESHARE.NET/ELLAGUNSON @BRIONYGUNSON BRIONY@POLESTARDIGITAL.COM BRIONY@BEANDDO.CO.UK