Mental toughness is proven to increase performance in organisations and individuals who assess and develop their mental toughness ability, irrespective of the nature of the organisation, the sector or an individual’s personal and professional background.
Organisations of all types are facing an extended period of change. The public sector is being downsized on an unprecedented scale and businesses are emerging from recession only to encounter fierce competition.
Individuals within the public and private sectors are under growing pressure to produce ever greater results with significantly reduced resources, whilst coping with tighter deadlines and shrinking lead times.
But a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can provide organisations, and the teams and individuals within them, not only to cope but also to turn adversity into opportunity and thrive during periods of intense change. Programmes are suitable for a wide range of applications and sectors:
Programmes are suitable for a wide range of applications and sectors:
- Business
- A mental toughness programme can enable businesses to increase sales, profits, innovation and productivity and reduce workplace stress, staff turnover and absenteeism.
- Individuals
- A personal development programme based on a mental toughness assessment and feedback session will increase individual personal performance by building leadership and management skills.
- Public Sector
- Public sector organisations benefit from a mental toughness programme by honing the skills to make tough decisions and manage difficult transitions.
- Health Sector
- Many National Health Service (NHS) primary care trusts have used the mental toughness diagnostic and development plan to cut stress and ramp up productivity.
Mental toughness can be a highly effective tool in other sectors, including the emergency services, armed forces, in local and central government, in education at all levels, the ‘third sector’ and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
- Mental toughness benefits for businesses
Whether your business is exploiting a new market, suffering from competitors’ activities, enduring post-acquisition indigestion or you simply want to up your game, we can create and implement a mental toughness programme that will achieve your aims.
Your businesses can use mental toughness when:
- You are undergoing a period of internal or external change
- It is time to re-evaluate or create your business strategy
- You require control and focus from your senior leadership team
- The benefits from a merger or acquisition are not being realised
- You need to increase productivity and efficiency
- You are facing high staff turnover and absenteeism
- Your senior leadership team is new, or not performing as well as it could
- A sales uplift is required
- Your selection and recruitment processes are failing to pick the right people
- Innovation is stalling and requires stimulation
- You and your senior managers need to learn to delegate more effectively
The business benefits of a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK include:
- Improved business performance across every metric
- Focus, clarity and leadership from the senior leadership team
- Accelerated business growth
- A winning business strategy
- Increased sales and profits
- Higher productivity and efficiency
- Effective post-acquisition integration
- Improved staff recruitment and retention, with reduced absenteeism
- Enhanced service delivery.
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
- Mental toughness benefits for individuals
You can use mental toughness when:
- It is time for you to set out your personal goals and aspirations
- You need to improve your performance
- A period of major change is impacting negatively on your life
- You have started a new role that demands levels of mental toughness you don’t yet have
- Professional and technical ability is not enough and you need ‘an edge’
- You need to overcome personal barriers and self doubt
- Stress is starting to impact negatively on your professional and personal lives
- Your problem-solving and coaching skills require enhancement
- A tighter focus and increased self confidence are required
- You have tough personal and professional choices to make
The personal benefits of a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK include:
- Improved personal and professional performance
- An understanding of your personal goals and aspirations
- Lower personal stress levels
- Enhanced focus and greater self confidence
- Improved analysis and decision-making skills
- The ability to make tough decisions
- Better communication skills and professional and personal relationships
- More effective time management and allocation of resources
- Overcoming personal barriers and self doubts
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
- Mental toughness benefits for probation trusts
If you are an executive or H.R manager of a public organisation, you can use mental toughness when:
- Performance improvement is required
- You need to rapidly create a change programme to implement budget cuts
- Greater accountability is required from senior leaders
- You are facing significant resource cuts whilst having to maintain service levels
- Improved delegation and decision-making skills are required
- Your staff are suffering the adverse effects of higher stress levels
- Productivity and efficiency gains are needed to offset the impact of cuts
- You need to instil a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Staff motivation and morale are low
- You and your senior leadership team have tough decisions to make and implement
The benefits to a public sector organisation of a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK are:
- Improved performance
- The creation of an effective change management strategy
- Reduced stress, and a reduction of the negative impact of stress
- Maintained, or increased, service delivery
- Empowered, capable, decisive and motivated managers
- Increased productivity and efficiency
- Budget savings
- Staff retention, improved morale and increased motivation
- Senior leaders who accept responsibility, take timely, effective decisions and are more accountable
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
- Mental toughness benefits for the health sector
If you are an NHS trust executive or H.R Manager, you can use mental toughness when:
- Performance improvement is required
- Your senior leadership team is new and untested
- A new organisation is to be created from multiple GP practices
- You need to rapidly create a change programme to implement budget freezes
- Greater accountability is required from senior leaders
- You are facing significant resource cuts whilst having to maintain service levels
- Improved delegation and decision-making skills are required
- Your staff are suffering the adverse effects of higher stress levels
- Productivity and efficiency gains are needed to offset the impact of budget freezes
- You need to instil a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Staff motivation and morale are low
- You and your senior leadership team have tough decisions to make and implement
The benefits to health service providers of a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK are:
- Improved performance
- Consolidating and developing a new management team
- The creation of an effective change management strategy
- Reduced stress, and a reduction of the negative impact of stress
- Maintained, or increased, service delivery
- Empowered, capable, decisive and motivated managers
- Increased productivity and efficiency
- Budget savings
- Staff retention, improved morale and increased motivation
- Senior leaders who accept responsibility, take timely, effective decisions and are more accountable
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.