The Case for Chief Murabbi Officers in Organizations

You conscionable had an angry outburst astatine work, and you’re fuming – It’s nan 3rd 1 this week, and oneself don’t for illustration this emotion and crave to woody alongside it, but you’re unsure how. Suddenly, oneself perceive a sound connected nan door. You don’t crave to talk to anybody, but past announcement it’s belonging to you company’s Chief Murabbi officer. You sigh, knowing that this speech is about, but oneself reception it because he’s present to thief talk done belonging to you caller outbursts and support oneself alongside belonging to you belief and affectional well-being arsenic oneself tackle this challenge.

I’ve been speaking to respective CEOs, HR Directors, and managers astatine companies worldwide (small and big). They each look a accordant situation of managing people’s belief and affectional challenges that get successful nan way of doing their champion toil and effect squad and organizational performance. Challenges for illustration envy, anger, ego-centricity, gossip, lying, arrogance, etc.

Typically, companies tackle nan supra challenges done ‘cognitive’ interventions for illustration training, coaching, and giving feedback. However, immoderate belief and affectional challenges tin only beryllium dealt alongside done a deeper, heart-centric, and spiritual-based approach.

Enter – The Chief Murabbi Officer.

A personification aliases function/role of whom sole intent is dedicated to nan belief and affectional well-being of leaders and labor astatine an organization. 

The Arabic look “Murabbi” carries layers of meaning – astatine its core, a Murabbi is 1 that person nurtures souls. This domiciled is often viewed arsenic belonging successful general acquisition contexts for illustration schools and madrasahs. However, nan principle of a Murabbi is personification that person oversees nan belief and affectional improvement and attraction of others. In immoderate cultures, Murabbi is referred to arsenic an elder person, personification that person is sage (age and acquisition of life), and that person is respected, and is invested successful nurturing souls done belief and affectional intelligence.

We person nan champion illustration of a Murabbi successful Prophet Muhammad (peace beryllium atop him) that person said “I was sent to cleanable bully character.” (Muwatta). You often see/hear reports of him gently, and compassionately correcting behaviour and advising really to woody alongside immoderate of nan sturdy quality belief and affectional challenges ourselves look each day.

The Chief Murabbi is not an organization’s scientist – nor an organization’s chaplain but a operation of a counselor, psychologist, and executive coach, alongside sound characteristic and bully opinionated – that person tin speak to group astir their spiritual/emotional challenges and go a safe abstraction for group to talk these issues alongside them.

Imagine oneself visit belonging to you company’s Murabbi astatine that long you’re struggling alongside envy, and oneself crave to speak to them successful privateness astir this topic, and they’d perceive to oneself and springiness oneself applicable ways to woody alongside belonging to you heart’s disease.

Or ideate getting a visit from nan Chief Murabbi Officer astatine that long oneself person an angry outburst astatine an important gathering astatine work, and they’ll speak to oneself astir that triggered that anger and really champion to tackle it adjacent time.

So galore issues tin beryllium resolved done facilitated conversations alongside Murabbi officers that won’t person to spell to HR for disciplinary measures, issues specified arsenic arrogance, toxic aliases inappropriate behavior, gossip, aliases taking undue credit.

For mini organizations, this tin beryllium 1 personification (ideally nan leader). For larger organizations, this tin beryllium a usability alongside multiple/qualified Murabbi officers. Some workplaces whitethorn request astatine slightest 2 Murabbi officers, 1 for antheral unit and nan different for female staff, truthful men and women tin consciousness comfortable being defenseless alongside their respective officers.

Other notable features of this role: 

• It must beryllium a highly respected role, truthful I’m giving it nan C-suite heading “Chief Murabbi Officer.”
• It needs to beryllium a well-paid domiciled connected par alongside a leader successful nan statement and person a adjacent moving narration alongside nan C-suite and committee members.
• The personification must person a proven trail grounds of group guidance from a belief tradition, e.g., an Imam alongside a trail grounds of managing a divers organization aliases a trained Islamic psychologist/counselor.
• Their superior responsibilities include:
  • To counsel and counsel leaders and unit connected belief and affectional challenges
  • To promote bully ethical behaviour and counsel against inappropriate behavior
  • Be nan belief guideline for nan organization
• The personification must grasp nan firm situation and its divers affectional and belief challenges.
• Must beryllium likable and trustworthy, and group consciousness safe talking to them.
• Bonus: They must beryllium trained successful nan Barakah Culture paradigm of productivity that ourselves thatch present astatine ProductiveMuslim.

Are organizations fresh for specified a role? I could for illustration to spot if an statement is consenting to research alongside this domiciled for 12 months and measurement nan effect this domiciled has connected leaders and staff’s well-being.

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