One Second Ahead - Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness

In today’s complex, fast-paced, always-on world, our ability to perform at our best is challenged. Many of us feel under pressure to deliver results in the face of competing demands on our time and attention.

In this book, Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Gillian Coutts, share simple, yet profound tools and techniques to enhance performance, creativity, and wellbeing at work. The premise is that we can rewire the brain to be responsive rather than reactive so we can do more of the right things as opposed to just lots of things. The key is getting One Second Ahead leveraging the power of corporate mindfulness.

The book is based on 10 years of development and research results from the work of Potential Project – the global leader in customized organizational mindfulness programs. It includes insights and experiences working with hundreds of global brands including Accenture, Nike, Microsoft, American Express and many more. Further, it is based on the latest scientific understanding of the plasticity of the brain and how it can be trained to be more focused and effective.

One Second Ahead is a proven formula for enhancing performance and wellbeing at work and includes: 

• Practical, easy to apply, tools and techniques to enhance performance and effectiveness in day to day work activities such as meetings, emails, communication, planning, creativity and more
• Real-world stories of how mindfulness changed the workdays of leaders and front line employees
• Tips for cultivating mental strategies and routines that can reduce clutter, increase focus, and rewire your brain to enhance presence, patience, kindness and other valuable mind states
• Simple yet detailed step-by-step instructions for a more systematic approach to mindfulness training to enhance focus and awareness
• Guidelines for a 10-minute-per-day mindfulness program that can reshape your life both at work and at home
• A reproducible planning worksheet and further resources in the Appendix.

By following these guidelines, One Second Ahead can transform individuals and organizations by helping everyone realize more of their potential through greater focus and awareness.