According to Stephen R. Covey’s book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have--you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual.”
Can Meditation Shift Your Mindset?
Meditation has moved from something a few specialists did to becoming a mainstream phenomenon. I’m not sure when I made the shift myself in wanting to check it out. It might have been when a colleague shared his experience with daily meditation to get his head clear, or perhaps when watching the students learn the art of Buddhist mediation at a mountaintop monastery in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Nevertheless, I recently found myself opening to the idea of meditation.
Build an Engaged Team with Staying Power
Turnover is high and costly. A study by the Society for Human Resource Management states that employers spend the equivalent of six to nine months of an employee’s salary to attract, identify, and train their replacement. So that means that an employee salaried at $100K will cost the company $50-$75k to hire and train a replacement. Do I have your attention yet?