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Using Mindfulness To Improve High Potential Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2015

Marian N. Ruderman  and
Cathleen Clerkin
Marian N. Ruderman*
Affiliation:
Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina
Cathleen Clerkin
Affiliation:
Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Marian N. Ruderman, Center for Creative Leadership, 1 Leadership Place, Greensboro, NC 27438. E-mail: [email protected]
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Hyland, Lee, and Mills (2015) have provided a thorough and much needed overview of the construct of mindfulness within the context of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology and have offered several reasons why mindfulness programs should be considered in the workplace. In this commentary, we focus on their suggestion that mindfulness may improve the development of high potentials through enhanced self-awareness. We agree that mindfulness is likely an effective tool to help high potentials succeed in an increasingly complex world. We come to this conclusion after conducting a rigorous review of the literature and talking to experts (Ruderman, Clerkin, & Connolly, 2014), learning various forms of mindfulness including completing the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, and our experiences conducting applied leadership research at the Center for Creative Leadership—a 45-year-old organization devoted exclusively to leadership development.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 694 - 698
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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