Mindfulness is an individual being aware of his or her thinking so that he or she can, with calm, reflective mind and action, see things with clarity, continual innovation and renewed energy.

Beginning a mindfulness practice helps us to:

• cope with stress
• deal with change
• find more time
• enjoy what we are doing
• develop choices
• stop knee-jerk reactions and 
• patterns of thinking

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On a day-to-day basis, people within an organisation need to know how to work with inflexible thinking, attitudes and beliefs that their peers, subordinates or superiors may hold. As leaders, our ability to role-model flexible thinking is a 'must have'. So what model should we attempt to follow in changing inflexible attitudes and beliefs? If we start with our premise that we need to work on our behaviours, skills and thinking, then we could apply a fifth level to the four stages of the competency scale.  Download full article here.