Mindset: The Powerfulness of The Pause and Mindfulness Training For Leaders With Catherine Bell

In this episode, Joel, and Andy speak to Catherine Bell who is a bestselling author, and a teacher at one of the world’s top business schools, Queen´s University. She specialises in creating healthy corporate cultures. Catherine shares some of the key lessons she has learned, after decades of helping companies of all sizes and many types to transform their culture.

During the episode, she takes Joel and the listeners through an exercise that improves awareness and positivity. Catherine also touches on the role enneagram testing can play in helping leaders to understand themselves better and the impact they are having on the culture of their businesses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Take time out every single day to practice mindfulness and root yourself in calmness.
• The most self-aware leaders are the most powerful.
• Our company cultures are built on our relationships with others. How you behave has a huge impact.
• Mindfulness is immensely powerful for leaders.
• The vast majority of us are disengaged. We are sleepwalking through our days.
• Pause every day to think about your focus and vision.
• Many businesses focus on their bottom line rather than on solving their business problems while benefiting their customers and others.
• Understand who you have to be to get to where you want to go.
• Take notice of what everyone on your team is doing and comment regularly on the positive things they are doing.
• Doing small positive things regularly throughout the day adds up to high levels of positive change.
• If you want to help others, you have to help yourself first.
• Leaders can suck the energy out or inject it into a room very quickly.

BEST MOMENTS

‘The majority of people are disengaged. ´

‘People support what they create.’

‘Greatness is a series of small acts….’

‘If we are going to solve the problems that are facing our planet, we have to ask – how much is enough.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

The Awakened Company by Catherine R Bell - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakened-Company-Catherine-R-Bell/dp/1897238797/

Website: https://awakenedcompany.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakenedCompany/featured

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Joel started his working life as a graphics designer. Pretty quickly he got bitten

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