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lives potential fulfilled.
Mindfulness: Creating a More Positive, Productive Environment
Mindfulness helps foster a more focused, productive, and connected workplace where employees feel fulfilled and valued.
Each training session will provide your team with evidence-based practices to cope with stressors common to the workplace like distractions, conflict, and performance reviews.
Work...
- ...can provide a sense of purpose.
- ...can be a mechanism to achieve great personal success.
- ...can provide opportunities for personal growth and long-term fulfillment.
- ...can be a place to connect and foster important relationships.
"Mindfulness has had an incredible impact on my life. Life happens. Minds think. Thankfully, neither of those things will ever change. But mindfulness gives me what nothing else could: the ability to pause and see that there are choices in every situation. That, to me, is freedom."
Why It Matters: Endless emails, meetings, "always on" technology, and other distractions have us operating in high-gear, often on auto-pilot
Maintaining this pace requires a kind of “partial-attention” multitasking where our brains switch back and forth between competing priorities.
This inability to prioritize tasks and focus on just one thing at a time can result in:
- Reactivity (as opposed to responsiveness)
- Difficulty performing or finishing tasks
- A constant, underlying “buzz” of stress
- Decreased time management
- Lack of focus
- Disengagement
- Overall dissatisfaction
The bottom line: Investing in mindfulness is investing in a more engaged workplace culture that gives people a sense of satisfaction and purpose.
Mindfulness in the workplace means implementing practices like paying attention on purpose and focusing on one thing at a time. These methods help minimize distractions and empower employees to better manage their workloads and time.
When people can create space by pausing between thought and reaction, they make better decisions and can respond more thoughtfully. Being more present within oneself and with others also leads to empathy, focus and, ultimately, better engagement.
A more engaged workplace culture has:
- Higher productivity
- Increased job satisfaction
- Higher employee retention
- Greater well-being for all employees
ROI Mindfulness will work with you to understand your workplace culture. We will then craft a customized and secular program aligned with your professional development goals. ROI Mindfulness works with businesses throughout the country and offers:
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Like many, I have experienced the peaks and valleys of life in the corporate world. I have over 25 years of experience as a quota-carrying national and regional sales professional for both private and public corporations in the hospitality and technology sectors. I have ridden economic storms, leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions, downsizings, public-private transitions, acts of God, performance reviews, KPIs, great mentors, not-so-great mentors, workplace cultures with every type of morale, and many other variables that impact one’s relationship with work.But six years ago, I faced my greatest challenge when I suffered a serious spinal injury. After a lifetime of fitness that included 25 marathons, six ultra-marathons and countless half-marathons, and leading four to six indoor cycling classes a week, I found myself dealing with chronic pain and an impaired ability to walk. The life I knew had ended and this incapacitating injury—alongside shifting circumstances at work—held me captive in a persistent state of anxiety. I was in a constant “flight/fight/freeze” mentality about my health, my career, and my future.
After recovering from back surgery and returning to work, I tried and failed to talk myself out of this constant internal “buzz” of nerves and anxiety that seemed to escalate with work-related stress.
How was it that I could complete a marathon, fly around the country to meet with c-suite executives of Fortune 500 enterprises, present to rooms full of strangers, and receive accolades as a top performer—but now shake at just the thought of picking up the phone to call a prospect?
All the podcasts and books in the world didn’t seem to help. Even the return to vigorous workouts only provided a temporary respite.
Then, I discovered the practice of mindfulness and learned that stress is a physiological experience—not something you can “talk yourself out of.”
I thought meditation was too passive for someone “high energy” like me. But after experiencing the pronounced professional and personal benefits of mindfulness derived from a disciplined, daily practice, I was inspired to dedicate my career to helping others by introducing mindfulness practices at work.
Like many, I have experienced the peaks and valleys of life in the corporate world.
I have over 25 years of experience as a quota-carrying national and regional sales professional for both private and public corporations in the hospitality and technology sectors. I have ridden economic storms, leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions, downsizings, public-private transitions, acts of God, performance reviews, KPIs, great mentors, not-so-great mentors, workplace cultures with every type of morale, and many other variables that impact one’s relationship with work.
But six years ago, I faced my greatest challenge when I suffered a serious spinal injury. After a lifetime of fitness that included 25 marathons, six ultra-marathons and countless half-marathons, and leading four to six indoor cycling classes a week, I found myself dealing with chronic pain and an impaired ability to walk. The life I knew had ended and this incapacitating injury—alongside shifting circumstances at work—held me captive in a persistent state of anxiety. I was in a constant “flight/fight/freeze” mentality about my health, my career, and my future.
After recovering from back surgery and returning to work, I tried and failed to talk myself out of this constant internal “buzz” of nerves and anxiety that seemed to escalate with work-related stress.
How was it that I could complete a marathon, fly around the country to meet with c-suite executives of Fortune 500 enterprises, present to rooms full of strangers, and receive accolades as a top performer—but now shake at just the thought of picking up the phone to call a prospect?
All the podcasts and books in the world didn’t seem to help. Even the return to vigorous workouts only provided a temporary respite.
Then, I discovered the practice of mindfulness and learned that stress is a physiological experience—not something you can “talk yourself out of.”
I thought meditation was too passive for someone “high energy” like me. But after experiencing the pronounced professional and personal benefits of mindfulness derived from a disciplined, daily practice, I was inspired to dedicate my career to helping others by introducing mindfulness practices at work.
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Success in any workplace today isn't just about getting the work done, it's about supporting the people who do the work. Shelley's ability to integrate mindfulness practices into the workplace fills a critical gap toward achieving organizational health and sustainability.
Thank you so much for guiding us through a great workshop! We would LOVE to have you again in 2019.
Shelley Brown lifts people up to their fullest potential. Blending her own powerful stories, well-researched mindfulness exercises, and heartfelt compassion for the struggles of corporate life, Shelley consistently connects with people in meaningful, authentic ways which both inspires and informs. I highly recommend her for any company wanting to increase their ROI and happiness at the same time.
Shelley has such a deep understanding of The Human Condition and the transformation between pain and being with the presence of one's personal experience. She has guided me time and time again on my own Journey, helping me create a new relationship with my struggles and my suffering. She is the essence of this work and has gifted me a new paradigm of being, as a result of her authenticity and embodying mindfulness and self-compassion.
As an organization that requires engagement and focus at every turn, Shelley Brown clearly understands the dynamics of our work environment. She customized several mindfulness exercises for our Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore Executive Committee Retreat with the intention of clearing our fast-paced minds for a productive day of goal-setting and planning. Her ability to personalize the approach really allowed the team to contribute to the day with thoughtfulness and focus. I recommend you engage Shelley for any corporate event to help support your objectives. It proved to be a great day in no small part due to our mindfulness towards the effort. Thanks, Shelley!