"Since the Mental Toughness Programme the Directors have shown a staggering degree of resilience and bravery"
Mental toughness solutions designed for you
A mental toughness solution designed and implemented by JHK will provide you and your organisation with the skills and a development programme that you require to develop your mental toughness and meet your organisational and personal challenges head-on.
We provide two mental toughness programmes:
- Organisation
An organisational programme designed to assess mental toughness within your organisation and to develop a bespoke coaching and development plan that will enable your key personnel to enhance their mental toughness in line with your organisational requirements.
- Individuals
An individual programme that will assess your personal mental toughness score, create a personal development plan in order that you can achieve your personal and professional goals and provide one-to-one coaching to enhance your mental toughness abilities.
JHK’s mental toughness programmes are exclusively delivered by JHK founder and managing director Judith Krichefski. A Mental Toughness Accredited Practitioner, Judith brings her unique blend of experience and skills to each mental toughness programme, applying her unrivalled knowledge of development techniques to create a truly bespoke and powerfully effective solution to your organisational and individual challenges.
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
Overview
Process
Benefits
Applications
Overview
JHK’s organisational mental toughness programme
Our mental toughness solutions are design to enhance the mental toughness of your target group, typically a senior leadership team within an organisation, by a process of assessment, development, coaching and training.
You will attain a much greater understanding of your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses. You will also learn why some people in your organisation relish a challenge and others struggle or fail to perform under pressure. You will also be shown how to develop strategies to help teams and individuals perform in highly challenging environments.
Process
JHK’s organisational programme is an eight-stage process designed to:
- Understand your organisational needs
- Assess the current mental toughness of your target group, using the MTQ48 questionnaire
- Provide feedback and interpretation of the MTQ48 questionnaire
- Create individual development plans for each member of your target group
- Use group sessions to introduce mental toughness and other skills and tools
- Coach the target groups to enhance mental toughness
- Deliver an organisational report on the impact and return on investment of the programme
- Provide a personalised ‘distance travelled’ report for each member of your target group.
The eight stage process:
Stage 1
Pre programming preparationStage 2
Participants PreparationStage 3
First one-day team sessionStage 4
Participants FeedbackStage 5
Participants coaching sessionsStage 6
Disatance travelled reportStage 7
Second one-day team sessionStage 8
organizational report & ROIStage 1
Pre programming preparationStage 1
Pre-programme preparation
Our first step is to fully understand your organisation’s objectives, the context in which it operates and what it is that you require from a mental toughness solution. By understanding what drives your organisation, we ensure that the mental toughness programme links to your objectives at every stage of the process.Key tasks
- Take detailed briefing and direction from client
- Understand organisational objectives
- Link mental toughness programme to those objectives
Stage 2
Participants PreparationStage 2
Participant preparation
Each participant in your target group will complete an MTQ48 online mental toughness questionnaire, powered by AQR, which takes only eight minutes to complete and automatically creates initial reports and assessments of mental toughness. Participants will also complete personal questionnaires and co-workers/managers/direct reports are asked to contribute to a 360-degree questionnaire.Key tasks
- Participants’ complete:
- Online mental toughness questionnaire, MTQ48
- Personal questionnaire
- 360-degree co-workers questionnaire
- In-depth organisational research of JHK team
Stage 3
First one-day team sessionStage 3
First one-day team session
The team of participants from your target group will undergo a one-day induction to mental toughness, including a team-building and skills development session facilitated by Judith Krichefski [link to about us page]. Other tools will be introduced as required. Participants will also be trained in using observation techniques for self and group assessment. This can be completed on or off-site; generally we recommend holding the session off-site, to ensure maximum engagement of the participants.Key tasks
- Introduction to mental toughness
- Team formation and team-building exercises
- Introduction to entrepreneurialism
- Introduction to other relevant tools, e.g. using the systematic approach
- Observations of participants’ interactions
Stage 4
Participants FeedbackStage 4
Participant feedback
Judith will personally prepare feedback for every participant based on the MTQ48 results and reports. Each participant will have a one-to-one, face-to-face feedback session of up to two hours with Judith, who will review the personal and 360-degree questions to build a personalised development plan designed to enhance each participant’s mental toughness. A mental toughness workbook is also provided during this session.Key tasks
- Face-to-face feedback – up to two hours per participant
- Review of:
- Online mental toughness questionnaire, MTQ48
- Personal questionnaire
- Creation of personalised development programmes
- Preparation of mental toughness workbook
Stage 5
Participants coaching sessionsStage 5
Participant coaching sessions
Judith will personally deliver three one-to-one, face-to-face coaching sessions of up to two hours for each participant. It is during these sessions that participants will receive training, coaching and skills development aimed at producing instant results to gradually enhance mental toughness. Progress from the start of the programme and between each coaching session will be measured and reviewed.Key tasks
- Three one-to-one, face-to-face two-hour coaching sessions per participant
- Application of appropriate coaching and development tools tailored to each person’s personal development requirements
- Measuring progress between each session
Stage 6
Disatance travelled reportStage 6
Second one-day team session
The second one-day team session facilitated by Judith will educate participants about stress, its impact and management. Additional skills, such as techniques for organisational and personal reflection, monitoring and action planning will also be covered, and there will be ongoing use of observation tools introduced during the first one-day session.Key tasks
- Understanding the impact of stress
- Organisational and personal reflection techniques
- Time management of self and team training
- Monitoring and action planning
Stage 7
Second one-day team sessionStage 7
Organisational report
Judith will prepare an in-depth report designed to inform the senior leadership team, chief executive and chairman of the organisation about the progress of the mental toughness programme, its impact, legacy value and return on investment.Key tasks
- An in-depth report written for the senior leadership and management team’s
- Details the impact implementing a mental toughness approach has had on the organisation
- Assesses the legacy value of adopting a mental toughness programmed
- Provides a basis for evaluating return on investment using mental toughness
Stage 8
organizational report & ROIStage 8
Distance travelled report
A personalised and confidential report is prepared for each participant, detailing each person’s ‘distance travelled’ along their personal development plan.Depending on participant availability, each organisational programme typically spans three months from the initial briefing to the production of the organisational report and distance travelled report.
Key tasks
- A report for each participant that details how much progress has been made on their personal development plans through adopting mental toughness
Benefits
Benefits
The core benefit to your organisation of a mental toughness solution will be improved performance. Specifically, improved performance can mean for your organisation:
- Focus, clarity and leadership from the senior leadership team
- A winning organisational strategy
- Higher productivity and efficiency
- Improved staff recruitment, retention, motivation and reduced absenteeism
- Enhanced service delivery
- An organisation that embraces and effectively manages change
- Reduced stress, and a reduction of the negative impact of stress
- Empowered, resilient capable, decisive and motivated ‘can do’ managers
- The creation of high performing teams.
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Applications
Applications
Our mental toughness solutions can be applied in a wide range of contexts to address challenges facing organisations. Applications of JHK’s mental toughness solutions include:
- Diagnostics of why an organisation is not achieving its goals
- Management and leadership development, training and coaching
- Understanding and reducing stress and mitigating its negative impact
- Managing organisational change and stimulating organisational culture change
- An assessment tool for selection and recruitment
- Talent management and retention; identifying and nurturing top performers
- Changing culture to ‘can do’
- Confidence building and improving delegation skills
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.
Overview
Process
Benefits
Applications
Overview
JHK’s individual mental toughness programme
Our individual mental toughness solutions are designed to enhance your existing mental toughness that you can apply to meeting your personal and professional challenges head-on by a process of personal assessment, development, coaching and training.
You will attain a much greater understanding of your personal strengths and weaknesses and how you can apply your enhanced mental toughness to your personal situation. You will be shown how to develop strategies to help you perform in highly challenging environments.
Process
JHK’s individual programme is a five stage process designed to:
- Understand your personal and professional needs and goals
- Assess your current level of mental toughness using MTQ48
- Provide feedback and interpretation of the MTQ48 questionnaire
- Create an individual development plan for your personal development
- Coach you to enhance mental toughness
- Provide a personalised distance travelled’ report to track your development
The five stage process
Stage 1
Pre programming preparationStage 2
Individual preparationStage 3
Individual feedbackStage 4
Individual coaching sessionsStage 5
Distance travelled reportStage 1
Pre programming preparationStage 1
Pre-programme preparation
Our first step is to fully understand your personal objectives, context and what it is that you require from a mental toughness solution. By understanding what drives you, we ensure that the mental toughness programme links to your personal goals, aspirations and objectives throughout the process.Key tasks
- Understand personal and professional objectives
- Link mental toughness programme to those objectives
Stage 2
Individual preparationStage 2
Individual preparation
You will complete an online mental toughness questionnaire MTQ48, powered by AQR, which takes only eight minutes to complete and automatically creates initial reports and assessment of mental toughness.Key tasks
- The participant completes:
- The online mental toughness questionnaire, MTQ48
- The personal questionnaire
Stage 3
Individual feedbackStage 3
Individual feedback
Judith will personally prepare your feedback based on the results and reports from the MTQ48. You will have a one-to-one face-to-face feedback session of up to two hours with Judith, who will build a personalised development plan designed to enhance your mental toughness. A mental toughness workbook is also provided during this session.Key tasks
- Up to two hours of face-to-face feedback
- Review of:
- the online mental toughness questionnaire, MTQ48
- The personal questionnaire
- Creation of a personalised development programme
- Preparation of mental toughness workbook
Stage 4
Individual coaching sessionsStage 4
Individual coaching sessions
Judith will personally deliver three two-hour one-to-one face-to-face coaching sessions. It is during these sessions that you will receive training, coaching and skills development that will have instant results and gradually increase your mental toughness. Progress from the start of the programme and between each coaching session will be measured and reviewed.Key tasks
- Three one-to-one, face-to-face two-hour coaching sessions per participant
- Application of appropriate coaching and development tools tailored to each person’s personal development requirements
- Measuring progress between each session
Stage 5
Distance travelled reportStage 5
Distance travelled report
A personalised and confidential report is prepared for you detailing the ‘distance travelled’ along your personal development plan.Depending on your availability, each individual programme typically spans three months from the initial briefing to the production of the distance travelled report.
Key tasks
- A report detailing how much progress has been made on personal development plans through adopting mental toughness
Benefits
Benefits
The core benefit to you of a mental toughness solution will be improved performance, which can mean:
- Significantly greater personal and professional success
- A greater understanding of your personal goals and aspirations
- Enhanced earning potential
- Lower personal stress levels
- Enhanced focus and greater self-confidence
- Improved analysis and decision-making skills
- Improved 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.
Applications
Applications
Our mental toughness solutions can be applied in a wide range of contexts to address challenges facing individuals. Typical applications include:
- Diagnostics of why you are not achieving your goals and aspirations personally and professionally
- Personal and professional development, training and coaching
- Overcoming personal and professional barriers; meeting challenges
- Life- or career-changing processes
- Understanding and reducing stress and mitigating its negative impact
- Managing change
- Confidence building and improving delegation skills
- Careers advice and outplacement
To find out how a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK can optimise your personal and organisational performance, contact us now.