Mental Toughness

Your Competitive Edge - How to apply optimism and resilience to improve your effectiveness in your job and in your life.


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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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What Participants Say

"The mental toughness course was one of the best short courses I have attended. The skills learned were extremely useful and practical. I found myself using them automatically, without needing to refer to any notes. I now feel that I can confidently deal with any challenging situation."

Anna Pollock - Communications Consultant @ IAG New Zealand

"This course teaches an attitude to life which is just what we need working in our tough field. Jamie is an excellent presenter and his message of taking control of our responses to both adversity and success is very important. As a result of this course we will be introducing changes in the way we relate to each and how we work with our clients, which may include the development of a specific programme on optimism for traumatised children"

Jane Drumm - Executive Director @ Preventing Violence in the Home

"This course gave me real insights and understanding of how attitude can make a huge difference in achieving success and in dealing with setbacks. As a person who is not naturally optimistic, I was given excellent tools and strategies that I could put to use immediately in my work and my personal life. A thoroughly worthwhile investment in time and money."

Stan Gregec - Internet Development Manager @ University of Auckland


Cancellation
Subject to unforeseen circumstances such as student demand and/or resource availability, The University reserves the right to cancel, or change the content, timing or method of presentation of any course.

All notification of withdrawals, transfers, and substitutions must be sent in writing via email to The University of Auckland Business School Executive Development Team at shortcourses@auckland.ac.nz. Full refunds can be obtained up to 30 days before the program start date. Due to the costs incurred for program preparation and administration, any cancellations or requests for transfers or deferrals received 14 days or less from the program start are subject to penalty fees as described below.

If you do not attend the course and have not advised us in writing or by email before the start date the full fee will apply.

Transfers: Transfer requests must indicate the new dates and/or new program the participant wishes to attend.  If the transfer request is made at more than 7 days from the original course dates - a service fee of $300 is applied, but the 50% cancellation fee is waived. A transfer request made with more than 14 days' notice can be made with no penalty. Transfers are valid only within one year of the original program start date. Your current cancellation policy is intact until you have attended your Short Course or the original penalty will be imposed.

All participant substitutions are subject to the sole discretion of The University of Auckland Business School Executive Development team.  Requests must be submitted in advance and will be reviewed on an individual basis, based on participant qualifications and lead time needed for any program pre-work.

Full enrolment is non refundable under these conditions:

  1. The registrant or substitute does not enrol in another program within one year of the original start date, and/or
  2. The registrant or substitute defers or transfers more than two times.

* The University of Auckland Business School Executive Development team is not responsible for travel or related costs under any circumstances. Participants may want to consider purchasing trip cancellation insurance in the unlikely event that a program is cancelled or they cannot attend for personal or professional reasons.

** For any program with more than two iterations in an enrolment year, tuition is non-refundable after 2nd transfer.

Course Size
Numbers are limited, and enrolment is on a first-come-first-served basis.

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