INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM PROVES THAT MINDFULNESS REALLY WORKS

Having conducted mindfulness courses and seminars for not only law firms but firms of all shapes and kinds I am not surprised to read in the Australasian Lawyer today that one international law firm has actually demonstrated that mindfulness really makes a difference in the workplace. Not that I am surprised to hear that.

Listen to these results from a six-week program in mindfulness run by the major law firm Herbert Smith Freehills:

*  a 12 per cent increase in employee focus

*  a 10 per cent increase in employee performance

*  a 10 per cent increase in employee efficiency

*  a 17 per cent increase in employee work/life balance

*  an 11 per cent increase in employee communication skills

*  a 14 per cent decrease in employee multitasking (yes, out with multitasking).

Here’s the link to the article.

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Michael Chaskalson, who is a mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) trainer based in the United Kingdom, has written a wonderful book entitled The Mindful Workplace.

Chaskalson, who is one of the world's foremost proponents of the use of mindfulness in workplace settings, offers a practical and theoretical guide to the benefits of MBSR in the workplace. He describes the latest neuroscience research into the effects of mindfulness training and details an eight-week mindfulness training course.

Chaskalson makes the point---and also provides evidentiary material to support his view---that business success and other ‘economic imperatives’ are not only not inconsistent with human wellbeing, they are totally consistent, even synergistically interrelated. I only wish more entrepreneurs were of that mindset. Too many of them are concerned only with the so-called ‘bottom line,’ failing to realise that their bottom line would significantly improve if they wisely invested in the human wellbeing of their employees.

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