Here's how you can foster presence and focus in your team members through mindfulness.

Start by encouraging your team members to incorporate short mindfulness practices into their daily routines. This could be as simple as taking a few minutes each morning for deep breathing exercises or practicing gratitude before starting work. These practices help to center the mind and cultivate a sense of calm which is essential for maintaining focus throughout the day. Another effective way to foster presence is by promoting mindful communication within your team. Encourage active listening during meetings and discussions. This means truly paying attention to what others are saying without thinking about your response while they're talking. This not only improves understanding but also strengthens relationships among team members.

There are so many misconceptions and myths about mindfulness. Hearing your team out, and addressing these misunderstandings can be an important step before embarking on a mindfulness project or implementation in your organization.

When you want to introduce any kind of mindfulness in your team, the most effective way is to lead by example, share your insights and results and create space for team members to practice. When you inspire through demonstrating results, there is no need for formal explanations which may create pressure, an opposite effect of that you want to achieve.

Understanding mindfulness is very crucial, many people have so many myths about mindfulness. People relate it with religious practices, people have so many misconceptions. So it is must to break all concerned myths. Mindfulness is nothing but being present at present without judgement. It helps to reduce stress, emotional regulation, self awareness, emotional wellness and many more.

I think starting the day with mindfulness can be game changer. Such as practicing mindful smile, Mindful breathing, mindful walking for short period. Introducing such small practices in daily routine of your team members can play pivotal role in their emotional and mental well being and boosting productivity.

You can start by introducing mindfulness practices at the begging of each team meeting and encourage your team members to practice independently. Some beginners practices could be like mindful breathing, body scan or other form of short meditation to clear and refresh the mind before the meeting, you can gradually introduce other exercises when you feel that the team is ready for more.

Mindful communication fosters the patience. One day I was discussing on presentation with my accountability partner. She was sharing what she prepared. I was kept listening. I had doubt and I thought to interupt her but I stopped myself and kept listening. A moment later what I realized that all doubts of mine were sorted out by just actively listening her. So it's crucial to inculcate mindful communication especially active listening that enhance your patience. And byproduct is like, other feels respected, feels heard and valued so it's win win for all stakeholders.

When implementing corporate well-being and mindfulness programs, inviting an external support can make a real difference: 1. It will help find mindfulness tools that will be the most effective for your team depending on your objectives (e.g. foster creativity, innovation or reduce stress, burnout or absenteisme rates). 2. Team members will be inspiring for the team to get this additional support and care from an expert. 3. You will define which kind of approach is better for your team, it is not always a formal training, it could be some kind of gamification, challenges or other engaging methods that can be easily integrated.

Nowadays, mindfulness is quite familiar in corporate world because of constant work pressure and mental health issues. Mindfulness training is must to empower and strengthen your team members emotionally and mentally.

Collaborating with a professional mindfulness training institution can be a tremendous help and support when introducing mindfulness in your team, division or company. Either collaborate with a university or private training institute will ensure that you have the needed expertise and quality of training on your team. And that you have help if challenges occur. Mindfulness is a powerful approach, and can invite individuals to touch painful experiences or habits in themselves they may need help to approach and address. Having a professional team to support you in these instances can be useful.

Leading by example is essential. Embodying the mindful attitude and presence. This requires you to have your own, personal mindfulness practice. Mindfulness is not about DOING - it is about the quality of how you show up, in your life, at meetings, with your family and colleagues.