Mental Toughness

Overview

The Competitive Advantage You Can Learn
Mental toughness is a learned process that provides superior resilience. This Short Course will demonstrate how Mental Toughness enables you to meet and overcome the adversities and hardships that cause others to stumble or slow down.

From education, sport, health and business - resilience is the one factor that delivers greater results. It provides significant competitive advantage enabling you to take the knocks, recover swiftly and get up again quickly, ready to move forward faster than the competition.

Adversity is a fact of life.  Being mentally tough and resilient will enable you to master the negative influences at work and in life - achieving where others struggle.  This Short Course will provide you with the capacity to:

• Persist against adversity and setbacks, until successful
• Be composed under pressure
• Handle adversity with aplomb
• Embrace changes at work and life in general
• Turn the vision into reality
• Improvise creatively
• Enjoy better health and well-being
• Be more productive (work smarter)

Topics Covered

The material covered in this Short Course draws on the latest research of the eminent motivational psychologist Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, Author of Learned Optimism & Authentic Happiness. Hundreds of studies prove that mental toughness and resilience is a predictor of mood, motivation, and achievement, and can be learned. For many people and organisations, learned habits of perceiving the causes of adversities and setbacks severely handicaps their capacity for the resilience needed to overcome them quickly.
This Short Course will cover:

• Explaining Mental Toughness
• What the Explanatory Style is
• How your explanatory style affects your mental toughness
• How your current level of mental toughness is formed from the impact of work and life events, belief systems, attitudes, feelings, and actions
• The process of developing your mental toughness and resilience muscles
• Applying the 8 primary skills of mental toughness to your life and work
• Action planning for maintaining your resilience
• The case for mental toughness and resilience in a business context
• The Seligman model of mental toughness

The Short Course begins with a case study and moves quickly on to providing a comprehensive understanding of the topic, before concentrating on a series of exercises, case studies and discussions designed to grow the your mental toughness and resilience.

You will receive a personal optimism and resilience profile using the Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire [SASQ], as used in over 1000 studies worldwide.

Who should attend

• Those who want to increase their own mental toughness, and the resilience of their organisation, and their people
• Those who sense the value of increasing their capacity for mental toughness, using it to pull out of the slumps faster, and to make greater gains in good times

Outcomes

At the end of this two-day Short Course, you will gain:

• A comprehensive understanding of the value of resilience and mental toughness
• A clear picture of your own level of mental toughness and the improvements made over two days
• How to use a variety of mental toughness tools for yourself and your organisation
• A significant competitive advantage in personal productivity and employment value

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