We will now learn about how Google's highest performing teams have one key component, psychological safety. Google found that psychological safety is built when you train people in three skills. Self awareness, self management, and empathy. Google Search Inside Yourself Program is designed to improve participants emotional intelligence through mindfulness techniques across three steps. Step one is attention training. This is where participants use mindfulness exercises to create a calm clear quality of mind. This forms the basis for their emotional intelligence. Step two is self knowledge and self mastery. This is where participants turn their attention in words and create quote high resolution perception into their own cognitive and emotive processes. This step aims to help participants view their own thoughts and feelings from an objective third person perspective. Step three is creating useful mental habits. Search Inside Yourself emphasizes making it a habit to treat everyone with sincere good will. This step is aimed to facilitate interpersonal relationships and to would develop participant's empathy. Tan is so passionate about meditation that he wants it to be normalized like exercise or healthy eating. He's on a mission to create world peace with this program. Preliminary research at Google shows that this program is having a positive effect on employee retention and satisfaction. More importantly, many participants report life-changing results in both their work of life and personal life. For example, one participant said, I have completely changed in the way I react to stressors. I take the time to think through things and empathize with other people's situations before jumping to conclusions. Bill Dwayne, who is Superintendent of Wellbeing at Sustainable Performance at Google says that after drinking too much bourbon and eating cheeseburgers he realized that there must be another way to cope and meet the high expectations he had for himself and others had for him at Google. In addition to managing stress through the search inside yourself program, he developed better awareness of the dynamics on his team. He calls the lessons learned in this Search Inside Yourself Program, neuro self-hacking and organizational hacking. While we don't have time to go through the entire Search Inside Yourself Program together. You can experiment with using the techniques in the program first here. Here are step by step instructions for doing a mindful breathing exercise on your own as recommended by Tan. You can use this exercise to train your own attention and you can improve others attention by guiding them through the exercise. Tan recommends taking ten minutes, but you can use the timeline that suits you or your group. First, sit in an upright position on a chair, cushion, or floor. Then bring consistent attention to your breath for two minutes. The idea is to fully focus on the breath. You will naturally get distracted, but when you notice that you're distracted, that is a moment of awareness. Gently guide your tension back to the movement of breathing. Is the breath deep or shallow? Is it fast or slow? Is it smooth or jagged? These are all qualities you can pay attention to as you breathe. The other option during these two minutes is to simply sit and breathe with no agenda at all. That's it. This is a two minute practice to cultivate mindful attention. As you sit for longer periods of time and you sit consistently you will find your ability to pay attention to the present moment becomes stronger over time. In the examples of both Phil Jackson's high performance coaching and of Google's mindfulness based emotional intelligence training. Mindfulness methods were used to develop emotional intelligence dimensions. Ultimately, high performance was an outcome in each of these coaching efforts. Next we'll go through how to go through mindfulness techniques to have emotionally, intelligent coaching and feedback conversations with your team members.