Nurturing Your Own Wellbeing

As a leader, taking care of yourself is crucial to your success and the wellbeing of you and your team. Prioritizing your self-care and wellbeing can lead to greater clarity, focus, and emotional intelligence. But that's not all; by prioritizing your wellbeing, you'll also create a positive workplace culture that promotes employee wellbeing and helps achieve organizational goals. When you lead from a place of wellbeing, you inspire and motivate your team to do the same, creating a ripple effect that can transform your organization. This course will help you identify the benefits self-care can bring to leaders, implement techniques to develop mindfulness as a leadership trait, identify effective strategies to assess your personal wellbeing, and choose effective self-care strategies to better manage leadership challenges.

Especially in times of disruption and change, your health and wellness - both physical and mental - can sometimes take a backburner to urgent and pressing needs. Prioritizing your wellness can be life-changing on a personal level, with the added benefits to employers of increased productivity, employee engagement, and retention. In this course, you'll learn to identify the elements of well-being at work and understand how common work and home factors can cause wellness to go out of balance. You'll also learn how to recognize signs of stress in yourself and in others, and what strategies help build resilience and promote wellness in all of life's dimensions: at work and at home; in mind, body, and human connections.

The stress that comes with work pressures can be overwhelming. But while you can't control the external events that lead to pressure, you can be proactive at recognizing stress and pressure, and consciously choose how you react. This allows you to use pressure to sharpen your focus and energize your work instead of being rolled by its force and dragged under its waves. In this course, you'll learn what situations are likely to trigger pressure, and how stress affects you physically and mentally. You'll also learn daily methods to make you more resilient to the challenges of pressure and stress, techniques for developing the mental flexibility to adjust to a high-pressure situation, and how to take action in the midst of one.

The word meditation conjures up images of specific practices in specific positions, such as putting yourself in the lotus position and controlling your breathing while guided by a knowledgeable practitioner. But sitting meditation is so much simpler and yet all the more challenging as it involves simply that - sitting. It is the practice of paying attention to the right here and the right now. There is no complicated technique or particular object or focus. In this course, you will practice a ten-minute sitting meditation with mentor and life coach Florian Brody that will help you find the right here and right now.

Losing focus? Need to stay calm? Mindfulness clears your head of the busyness that keeps you from leading effectively. These techniques for managing distractions, overcoming negativity, and dealing with stress can get you back on track.

The business world is changing like never before and the pace of change requires solid, thoughtful leadership. When faced with greater responsibilities and pressures, how do mindful leaders slow down and focus in a 24/7 world? In this course, you'll learn how mindfulness can strengthen your ability to pay attention to what's most important. You'll learn how mindfulness techniques can enhance your effectiveness as a leader and how to develop clarity and focus. Additionally, learn how to: • Become fully present in the moment • spot mindless behaviors that weaken effectiveness • how mindfulness builds effective business relationships with your peers and direct reports