The quality of coaches’ presence and awareness is key to the quality and success of their coaching relationships and interventions. Relational Mindfulness for Coaches supports coaches to co-create compassionate, psychologically safe yet courageous coaching spaces, generating profound insight, wisdom, and understanding in the client. At the book’s heart are powerful practices to expand mindful presence from the individual to the relational, bringing present-moment, non-judgemental awareness to self, others, and the relationship, whilst speaking and listening. The book provides understanding of Relational Mindfulness’s (RM’s) foundations in mindfulness, compassion, and Insight Dialogue. Drawing on their and other experienced coaches’ experiences, the authors illustrate the benefits of engaging in RM practices and provide easy-to-follow guidance for bringing RM into coaching. They also situate RM in the wider field of theory and practice, including neuroscience, and explore RM in relation to a host of other coaching models. In these challenging times of polarisation and conflict, the climate emergency, and a crisis in mental health, this inspiring book addresses the urgent need to create transformational dialogue and interrelatedness in coaching and beyond. This pioneering book will be essential reading for coaches, coaching supervisors, coaching psychologists, coaching academics, leaders, and other helping professionals.

Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff. Winner of the 2013 BPS Book Award - Practitioner Text category Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environment Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization’s existing practices and processes Serves as an essential guide for managers themselves on how to incorporate proven stress management skills into their everyday interactions with team members Balances rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises

The average level of absence in the UK is eight days per employee per year, so itiquest;s no surprise that nine out of ten HR managers identify employee absence as a significant cost to their organisation,* especially when that cost amounts annually to a calculated average of pound;600 per member of staff. Research now shows there is a clear need to recognise how the health and well-being of employees are interconnected with performance. Up-to-date and reliable information about maintaining and improving employee health is vital to increasing job satisfaction and improving your business performance. Now the CIPD has developed a Well-being and Performance subscription resource that helps you do this. It is the first such resource to bring together the three topical areas of: iquest; Absence and attendance: measuring and reporting, exploring the causes, annual leave, maternity, paternity, chronic illness, flexible working, and much more. iquest; Stress and well-being: workplace stress, stress management, legislative duties, bullying, harassment, sample policies, and much more. iquest; Occupational health; the duty of care, medical assessment, common illnesses, disability adjustments and rehabilitation, and much more. What can Well-being and Performance do for you and your organisation? Well-being and Performance guides you through the key stages of tackling absenteeism and stress at work, starting with the identification of problem areas and the assessment of their impact on your business, and takes you from building a business case and obtaining top-level investment in new well-being initiatives, to implementing the ideas in a practical setting and evaluating their success. The content is backed up throughout by the latest legal and compliance advice from leading experts, and a wide range of case studies from both public and private sector organisations, demonstrating how to make well-being initiatives a success.