At Vienna Media Group, we’ve been ruminating lately about mindfulness and how it fits into some of the training programs that we have under development. For some time, mindfulness has become a well-publicized tool for increased self-awareness, but importantly is also a technique used to gain better awareness of the environment that surrounds us. It is with this application that we are most interested as a means of improving worker skills.

Lectures have their place, delivering as much new or technical content as possible in a short period of time, but such a classroom experience may best be put in writing and delivered in that format to students. Then reserve follow-up in-person instruction to be more facilitation-focused, allowing the students to be active participants in the learning experience, which will provide for better retention and stronger buy-in. Here are just a few considerations on how to do this.