Mental Toughness Development Programme

Employees increasingly have to work to demanding targets, handle several things at the same time, respond to sudden changes and new demands and achieve goals despite set-backs or interruptions. Mental Toughness is a significant factor in determining how a person responds to pressure and how that might result in excessive stress. Put simply Mental Toughness is the ability to cope with stressors effectively.

The programme introduces the 4 elements of Mental Toughness, the most frequent sources of pressure in the workplace (and outside the workplace) and, most importantly, how individuals react to those pressures.

A range of psychometric measures are used, including measures of self-esteem, self-efficacy and general personality measures, to enable individuals to better understand themselves. Following from this we look at tools and techniques to deal with stress using "hands on" experience of the various techniques - this includes a simulation exercise where individuals can experiment with putting these techniques into practice in 'a real life setting'.

Every person who attends a programme will find stress reduction techniques which really work for them and should emerge with an increased capacity to handle pressure - whatever its source. It also equips participants to understand others in the same way - so that they can be increasingly supportive employees and managers.