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Mental Toughness

Understand the Mental Toughness model and look at how to improve your mental toughness with the 4c’s.

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Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from succeeding, or excelling at a task or towards an objective or a performance outcome that you set out to achieve.

Our one day programme can help you to achieve this by using tools and techniques to help you perform under pressure and ensure your wellbeing.

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will to:

  • Identify the causes of stress and how to prevent them
  • Assess your mental toughness using the MTQ48 measure
  • Use tools and techniques to develop your mental toughness

Content

Understanding Stress, Pressure and Challenge

  • The causes of stress
  • How stress can manifest itself
  • Threat response
  • The Stress performance curve
  • Stress, challenge and pressure
  • Positive stress

Mental Toughness, Stress Management and Resilience

  • Defining stress management, resilience and mental toughness
  • How they differ and how they affect each other
Mental Toughness
  • Understanding mental toughness
  • The importance of mental toughness
  • The benefits of developing your mental toughness

The 4 Cs of Mental Toughness

  • How we approach Challenge
  • Control our emotions
  • Develop Confidence
  • Create Commitment

MTQ48 Profile

  • Understanding your MTQ48 profile
  • Looking at your mental toughness
  • Areas for development

Developing Mental Toughness

  • Managing physical energy to deal with stress
  • Developing healthy habits for managing stress
  • Multitasking and the ability to focus
  • Identifying unhelpful thought patterns
  • Positive and pragmatic thinking approaches
  • Managing your approach to change and challenge
  • Ways of developing mental toughness

Testimonials

"I would definitely recommend this course. It was very informative and I found the four C’s particularly interesting in relation to mental wellbeing. The tutor delivered the session extremely well, and linking the content to day-to-day situations like COVID-19 made it very relevant. I was impressed with the interactive tools and felt at ease even though it was my first online session."

Deborah Butt – Driver, South Western Railway

"I loved that it was delivered in hour-long sessions, easy to fit into my calendar and digest. Lucy was incredibly knowledgeable, able to reference her own experience and bring in examples from delegates. The content was eye-opening and directly relevant to my team dynamics, helping me understand different perspectives and how to build resilience."

Kim Vallis – Customer Experience Training Programme Project Manager, South Western Railway

"This was an excellent course that I would recommend. It helped me with self-reflection and understanding how I function mentally. I’ve learnt to be more aware of my mental and emotional state when confronted by difficult tasks. The virtual delivery was ideal, with fewer distractions, and the trainer made the material engaging and easy to apply."

Paul Watts – Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd

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