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Feel good and mindfulness can also make a big difference in companies, but they are often misunderstood. 5 books do away with prejudices.

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Digitization, flexibility, automation are the buzzwords of the new Working world, the welfare of Employees is all too often forgotten. But: In the future, companies will increasingly differentiate themselves through their employees. And you have to pay attention to these.

Because: companies that also Future successfully want to be, must after Solutions looking for how their employees vital and healthy remain. The topic “Mindful Organization” has therefore clearly on Significance won. A mindful culture makes it possible People be able to work vigorously and healthily in the long term. This is how value is created through appreciation.

The desire for a new corporate culture is becoming increasingly clear, so that high sick leave figures can be avoided and progressive job density and demographic change can be effectively countered. One answer is the "mindful organization".

Basics and Best Practice

As editor, Claudia Härtl-Kasulke was looking for expert authors who impressively show how Esteem Create values ​​in companies. Because mindfulness and resilience are more than newfangled frills from esoteric circles.

The authors want to promote mindfulness in companies and thus accompany them on the way to mindful organizations. For this purpose, the book first provides the theoretical in an introductory part Basicsto get the reader's understanding. This is followed by a whole series of instructive case studies from companies.

Compendium of methods for practical implementation

The third part of the book, which is also strong, presents concrete methods that can be used when changing a Company to a mindful organization will help. Individual mindfulness plays just as much a role as theirs Implementation im Team.

Any methodology or exercise is described here briefly and concisely and tips for implementation are given. And from the point of view of Executives Of course, interestingly, there are also tips on how much time should be planned for an exercise.

The editor and her authors have succeeded in creating an excellent mixture of basic scientific work, field reports and instruction book. The reading can therefore be recommended without hesitation to anyone who is interested in the subject of mindfulness in companies.

Does work have to be fun?

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But the topic can be looked at even further: Digital giants like Google, Apple and Amazon are showing how it is done, others are doing it more or less well: Classic medium-sized companies have recognized that employees want more than the monthly wage transfer. Fun should do the work too.

Not so new is the realization that too customers would like to be made happy. A new specialist book is dedicated to the topic of “Happiness in Business” and shows what feel good management can achieve at all levels.

Where luck and business meet

In our minds go the terms luck and Economy far apart, we locate them in different living environments. Happiness, that sounds like fulfilment, love and Family. economy is hard Shop, where facts and figures speak. But: “Every person is in search of happiness every day. And everyone is in some way a player in the economy,” explains the team of authors of “Glück im Business”.

It consists of the Zen teacher and mental trainer André Daiyû Steiner, the graduate psychologist Carolin Hefele and the EconomicsProfessor Christian Schmidkonz. The latter also offers its students courses such as “Success Factor Happiness” or “Conscious Business”. Those who use luck in business correctly hit the nerve of employees and customers alike.

Happy product marketing: selling luck

From a management perspective, happiness is a valuable asset: people want to buy their happiness. If the juice promises me that I will eat healthier and more vital with it, it will feed my happiness. The sweater conjures up five kilos less? Bring it on! If you look around in supermarkets and the current advertising landscape, you will encounter amazingly often "happiness products".

"Of course, this form of linking consumption and happiness is extremely superficial and yet it speaks to the consumer in its own way," say the authors. In their specialist guide, they show how happy advertising messages affect consumers act and how marketing campaigns can be prepared with the PME Happiness Model in a particularly promising way.

Investment in happiness is worthwhile for companies

It's also worth it from an employer's point of view Investment into happy employees: Those who lead a happy life are more productive and more balanced. So if companies ensure that their employees feel comfortable and valued, they can optimize value creation. But that has less to do with the accumulation of material goods.

If companies provide table football, seating areas and coffee indiscriminately based on this idea, the idea has not really caught on. With such Measures employees can be satisfied at short notice during working hours.

Happy employees do not need a company car

To make them happy, employees need to feel valued and picked up feel. Enjoying coming to work, completing projects successfully and maintaining a friendly atmosphere among colleagues – that is what matters. “In fact, the company as a whole, with its values, its culture and its people, has to fit with you – and you with it,” explain the authors.

Happiness management for companies starts with the Choice of the right employee and employer and goes all the way to team building. But it's worth it - this is also shown by the success of companies with an appreciative employee culture. The guide "Happiness in Business" uses impressive best practices to show the whole range of areas of happiness in our lives:

From personal tools like meditation and mindfulness, to happiness as a marketing message, to happiness as a management tool. On top of that, there are 19 happiness exercises for the (work)Everyday life. Everyone is talking about growth hacking, but what really makes a company sustained successful? How do they become resilient and emerge stronger from crises? How does a healthy and sustainable growth? Growth expert Oliver Wegner answers this in his practical guide “The Growth Formula”. Ask.

We are growing - are they all there?

But as a decision-maker, you have everything you need for the success of your Company done and still not reaping the fruits of your labor? The latest software has been purchased, a renowned agency takes care of the PR machine that never stands still and the canteen has just been extensively renovated to make the stay for the growing number of employees as pleasant as possible.

That's fine, but does your team feel like they've been picked up and integrated into the change process? Did you even think about asking your employees what they want?

So check what's about to grow: growth requires inner strengths

Often, decisions about how to grow a business are taken from a bird's eye view. Every effort is made to financially and materially equip a company so that it can go with the competitor and withstand a comparison.

This is especially the case when the company is growing and structurally changing. But: A healthy growth process can not be imposed on a business from the outside. Companies have to grow from within.

The growth formula for sustainability and resilience

Growth = people x (organization + leadership culture)

“People are the key factor in generating growth,” says Wegner, who advises companies worldwide that want to grow sustainably. In his guide, he gives the reader 11 “Weg.WEISER”, which he has gained from his experience as a consultant.

One of the experiences he wants to pass on is the fact that employees need to be taken along on the path of structural and very real changes that a growth process entails for healthy growth.

If the hardware is very important for growth, the soft factors must also be taken into account, because without them, a growth process will come to fruition fast a bloat trap – which, in the worst case, bursts.

Practical examples from the middle class

Wegners can look deeply into practical examples. They show that in many medium-sized and even larger companies the awareness of healthy growth-oriented corporate governance has yet to be created.

"As a decision-maker and responsible person, ensure that your managers and employees develop an awareness of growth", recommends Wegner, "then all those involved understand that growth must be controlled in order to be able to use the opportunities associated with it". The growth guide shows through many best practice examples how companies stand in the way of their own growth and which internal changes are needed in order to grow healthily.

Working in the hamster wheel, stress around the clock and constant dissatisfaction are a constant companion for many people. The fact that something can be done about this is shown by the examples of Federal Minister Julia Klöckner, Prime Minister Malu Dreyer and Anja Gockel, among others.

When the joie de vivre is missing

It took a lot of overtime, but now the position in the company is perfect. Nice friends make an evening together something special and nothing is missing materially either. And yet it can be that something is missing: joie de vivre. It cannot be worked for, it simply has to be recognized in the small things in life. This requires mindfulness of one's own needs.

How important this is is shown in Patricia Küll's book not only by numerous tips and interviews with personalities such as the new Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Julia Klöckner, the Prime Minister of Reinland Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, and Eveline, the former Minister for Economic Affairs of Rhineland-Palatinate Lemke or fashion designer Anja Gockel.

Eveline Lemke recommends: Disciplined self-love

“Sleeping regularly, eating healthy, exercising, experiencing nature: a bit of a disciplined lifestyle. This is part of mine Self love, and it doesn't do any harm, it helps," says Eveline Lemke, summing up her secret for more joie de vivre. The former Economics Minister enters her sports sessions as a fixed date in her calendar.

The cup of tea, a jog or a nice one Conversation are a welcome break in which you Head, “who nevertheless continues to work, notes down the events, the experiences, the things that concern me, the worries and needs and somehow files them differently,” says Lemke. Then they would come again ideas and solutions and they in turn from “get off the hamster wheel”.

Discipline for the joy of life

The politician's philosophy can be summarized in the sentence "Be disciplined when it comes to your zest for life". Mindfulness towards yourself and others is a basic rule for more joy in life. The beautiful things in life have to be firmly anchored in everyday life, otherwise they are quickly forgotten in a busy schedule or postponed to later.

Take a look back and discover the qualities that make you who you are. Maybe you're stifling your curiosity so you don't look like your dad's crazy aunt. You may be trying to come off as an extrovert because you were teased for being quiet as a child. supposed weaknesses can also be strengths – find what makes you special and stand by it.

Lebensfreuderegel: Nothing happens without a reason

The systemic coach Patricia Küll gathers 17 such rules of joy in her guide “From today I sing in the shower”. The thinking exercises give small incentives for the organization of the day and bring new impetus to established behavior.

Just as lack of vitality and dissatisfaction could creep into life, so the joy of life could slowly find their place in life again, according to the author. It's just about becoming more and more the person you are.

Mindfulness in the shower

And for that it takes Discipline and mindfulness. While we never miss an appointment at work and work overtime to keep our Tasks to fulfill, there is a lack of discipline and commitment in private life.

"Do most things have more priority than your personal plans?" asks Küll. With every postponed evening with friends, every stressful morning without breakfast and a failed evening at the cinema, we neglect our joie de vivre. mindful Behavior so it starts with ourselves.

“What is this good for? What should I learn from it? ”

Seldom does a low come without a reason. Those who constantly catch a cold are neglecting their health, and having little enjoyment of the job may indicate that a change of perspective is necessary. Author Patricia Küll therefore advises: “Ask yourself: What is that good for? What should I learn from it? "

A great book with rules for joie de vivre, practical exercises and stimulating interviews with exciting personalities such as Julia Klöckner, Malu Dreyer or Anja Gockel. And it will be fast clear: Just start the day singing in the shower!

Instructions for letting go and accepting

Living in the moment - who doesn't want that. But it is often not that easy, especially when it is difficult. Ernst Bohlmeijer and Monique Hulsbergen show how mindfulness can also be used to master stressful situations and to achieve a better quality of life. A perfect introduction to mindfulness teaching!

“This book is intended for everyone who is dissatisfied with their life or struggles with psychological stress such as misery, pain, tension, fear, uncertainty or sadness”, write the authors Ernst Bohlmeijer and Monique Hulsbergen at the beginning of their book “Live in the Moment”.

But what they don't promise: to make you a happy person. There is no method for that. But for more serenity and more acceptance. The authors have picked two of them for their guide.

Mindfulness and Act

Inspired by mindfulness theory and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the authors design a nine-week self-coaching session in which the primary aim is not to fight or suppress psychological suffering, to give up the control mania and instead to accept the positive and negative feelings and in “Being-mode of living”.

The training for “a different attitude towards psychological suffering” requires a total of six stations. Acceptance and “cognitive defusion” are on the agenda in the first few weeks. Enduring instead of avoiding is an essential part of this Objective.

From the cognitive defusion to the reorientation of the values

In “Cognitive Defusion” is the Distance to your own thoughts in the foreground. Allow thoughts (there's no other way), but don't simply accept them as reality. In the middle part you will learn to live mindfully and “be kind to yourself”.

An important building block is the “observer set”, with the help of which you no longer define yourself only through thoughts and emotions. Finally, it is about realigning your values ​​and new patterns of action.

Better deal with stress and anxiety

The numerous exercises and reflections make it very easy to follow the course and gradually transfer the knowledge into one's everyday life.

Better with stress and Anxiety avoid – Ernst Bohlmeijer and Monique Hulsbergen provide a convincing recipe for this with “Living in the moment”. Free from esotericism, the book is a perfect introduction to the teaching of mindfulness.


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