Mindfulness is a mental and physical technique that requires you focus your awareness on the present moment. Mindfulness in  is important to help employees to manage their stress levels. It also has many other added benefits such as; boosting creativity, improves attention, working-memory and concentration and can strengthen relationships. If you would like to improve mindfulness in your workplace the following are a couple of thought starters:

• Provide mindfulness training
• Teach your employees to mediate
• Provide “colouring in books” in the lunch room
• Install “Break reminders” or stretching reminders on computers
• Have a meditation or prayer room
• Allow meditation music
• Put 3 min hourglasses timers on desks
• Encourage walking meetings
• Provide stress balls
• Have an Oxygen bar or get one to come to you
• Promote the “R u ok?” program