Work & Leadership Archive

A Color Meditation Script

Watch your world come alive as you open your curious eyes for this color meditation script. Suitable for personal practice or for leading others.

Rewriting Your Bad Day

Rewriting Your Bad Day. No day is 100% bad. You can train the mind to recognize both the good & bad, helping you see clearly the enjoyable moments.

Setting Goals And Accomplishing Them

Setting Goals and Accomplishing Them. In this meditation, the mind is relaxed & opened up to take on the challenge of committing to goals & achieving them.

Building Confidence For Social Settings And Meeting New People

Building Confidence For Social Settings. This script is a worthy consideration for intermediate to advanced groups ready to explore the topic of confidence.

10 Mindfulness Exercises for Work and Purpose

Mindfulness exercises for work can make us feel confident & inspired as we uncover various layers of peace, purpose, & patience for the vocation we chose.

What You Practice Grows Stronger

Dr. Shauna Shapiro, a clinical psychologist and professor at Santa Clara University, explains how mindfulness practice can help us change, in this TEDx talk.

The Mindful Leader

Ebook by Hult Research, The Mindful Leader: Developing the capacity for resilience and collaboration in complex times through mindfulness practice.

SIY 103.2 Self Regulation

SIY 103.2 Self Regulation: showing emotions is not always the best response. Learn the basics of self-regulation through mindfulness training and practice.

SIY 101 Intro to Emotional Intelligence

SIY 101 introduces Search Inside Yourself, the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program that began at Google with Chade-Meng Tan and is now run by the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.

How Ford Fosters Mindfulness at Work

Mark Higbie, senior advisor to Ford Motor Company, explains how the company began introducing mindfulness in the workplace.

10 Tips for Starting Mindfulness Program at Work

Kelley McCabe, founder, and CEO of eMindful shares easy to implement tips on how you can begin and sustain mindfulness practice in the workplace.

Six Questions For Greater Accomplishment

A mindfulness worksheet of six reflection questions, four daily and two weekly, about what is disturbing you, new possibilities, relationships, nurturing yourself, and where your attention is.

Inner Strength: Techniques to Improve Your Willpower and Self Control

A positive self-talk is a powerful tool for increasing willpower and self-control. Improve your inner strength by paying attention to your inner voice.

The Art of Generous Learning

In the Art of Generous Learning, realize that teaching others is a generous act, but being willing to learn from others can be generous as well.

How To Find Fulfilling Work

Finding fulfilling work can be an incredibly challenging task. In this video, you’ll learn how to find fulfilling work that’s right for you.

When to Follow Your Intuition

Brendon Burchard on telling intuition from fear, and the four planes on which he says intuition operates.

Playing in the Zone

A Wisdom 2.0 2015 session on how meditation and mindfulness may help athletes live in the present, play in the zone, stay mentally strong and reach peak performance.

Time Management

Time management can help you assess how well you are managing your time. It also offers suggestions to improve your time management skills.

Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Steven Kotler’s Talks at Google presentation on flow states, an optimal state of consciousness where we both feel our best and perform our best, and how to get more of it.

Identifying Strengths

In this mindfulness exercise, you write about a hard day you got through and use a checklist to name the strengths you notice in the story.

Acknowledging Success

A mindfulness worksheet on acknowledging success: honoring the past, savoring the present, and embracing the future.

Eckhart Tolle’s Top 10 Rules For Success

A list of ten rules for success from a YouTube video titled for Eckhart Tolle, with a short note on who Tolle is. The list is the video creator’s summary, not Tolle’s own words.

Are You Aware of Your Mindful Leadership?

Mindful leadership. It is leading with the idea that things be done with a purpose and for a purpose. Understand how to reach that purpose first.

Mindfulness at Work: How to Approach Workday Challenges Mindfully

being mindful throughout your workday can ease challenges and stresses that come up, which can make your workday and workplace calmer and easier to manage.

Am I Dreaming Too Big?

How do you know when you’re thinking too big? Do you have dreams that seem beyond your reach? Here’s how to think it through: First, Plan Big.

Minding Our Business: Mindfulness at Work

No matter what we do for a living, most of us require complete concentration to do a good job. That is why it’s necessary to practice being mindful at work.

Mindful Leadership in the Workplace

Just what is mindful leadership? It is the ability to anchor mindfulness into the complex and challenging situations presented to us by the workplace.

“Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence” [Video]

A Talks at Google video in which Daniel Goleman discusses his book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence and the role of attention, with a transcript.

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Right Livelihood And Vocation [Audio]

Right Livelihood And Vocation, by Donald Rothberg: [ai_playlist id=”194287″] About Donald Rothberg: Donald Rothberg, PhD, has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice and the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy. Formerly on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook Graduate School, […]

How to Increase Focus

We are told from childhood to focus. We grow up and go to work, where we are told to focus on the job. We get married, have kids, and are told to focus on our parenthood skills. We are exhorted to pay attention, concentrate, sharpen our minds, all of which are the definition of the […]

Understanding Judgment and Discernment [Audio]

Judgment and discernment are essential aspects of the spiritual path. Mindfulness exercises can increase one’s ability to feel and skillfully respond to suffering. Understanding judgment and discernment by Chas DiCapua: The theme I want to talk about tonight is I believe a really important one and certainly has been in my practice, and that is kind of […]

Clarity and Calm – For Busy People

Clarity and Calm – For Busy People is a short booklet by Ajahn Sucitto of brief exercises, from ten seconds to a few minutes, for stepping out of the momentum of the day. The booklet is embedded here with an excerpt.

Goal Planning

Use this Goal Planning Exercise to set your goal on a daily and monthly basis. Ascertain why that goal is meaningful, and explain how you can achieve it.

Dissolving Our Barriers to Power

Dissolving Our Barriers to Power: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

What is Important to do Today

What is Important to do Today: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

The Sources of Your Distraction

The Sources of Your Distraction: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Optimizing Your Schedule for Growth

Optimizing Your Schedule for Growth: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Mindfulness of Your Relationship with Technology

Mindfulness of Your Relationship with Technology: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Facilitating your Learning

Facilitating your Learning: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Doing What You Want

Doing What You Want: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Best Use of Your Time

Best Use of Your Time: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

How to Set Realistic Expectations

How to Set Realistic Expectations: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Optimizing Your Requests

Optimizing Your Requests: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Making Successful Requests

Making Successful Requests: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Learning How to Challenge What is Said

Learning How to Challenge What is Said: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Building True Power

How to Build True Power with Mindfulness Mindfulness can help us develop inner strength and a true sense of power. How?

Assessing Your Decision-Making Skills

Decision making is not always easy. This worksheet helps you look at how you make decisions now, and where mindfulness could help you choose with more clarity.

Appreciating How You Contribute

How often do we take pause to recognize how we contribute to the world? Many of us wonder how to contribute to society, and yet we don’t often take the time to look at what we are already offering.

How to Optimize Your Marketing Efforts

How to Optimize Your Marketing Efforts: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

How to Stick to a Plan

How to Stick to a Plan: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

How to Make Important Career Changes

How to Make Important Career Changes: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Discovering the Concerns of Your Team

Discovering the Concerns of Your Team: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Defining Your Meaning of Success

Defining Your Meaning of Success: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Dealing With Busy Schedules

Dealing With Busy Schedules: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Appraising My Career Values

Appraising our career values is an important step towards ensuring that we are doing work in alignment with who we are.

Refining How You Speak Up

Refining How You Speak Up: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Gauging External Contributions

Gauging External Contributions: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Feeling Good About Supporting Others

Feeling Good About Supporting Others: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Evaluating How Wisely You Spend Your Time

Evaluating How Wisely You Spend Your Time: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Assessing Contributions To Your Team

It is often said that teamwork makes the dream work. This worksheet helps you look honestly at what you contribute to your team, and where you might contribute more.

Appreciating Your Accomplishments

Acknowledging our accomplishments is not something that comes easy to most of us. Often, we are taught that to acknowledge what we are good at is contrary to humility.

Gathering Focus

Gathering Focus: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.