Mental Toughness Training – 4 Key Points To Your Success

Let’s face it – changes often cause stress, which requires Mental Toughness to stay in control.
Mental Toughness is a key feature of Emotional Intelligence.

Acceptance – A pre-requisite to Mental Strength

Acceptance of change often creates inner space to accommodate its many expressions without being emotionally reactive in a negative way.

Because, when we accept things we can deal with them, and acceptance is an important ingredient of personal development in leadership.

Many professionals and Human Resource consultants are unaware of the extraordinary benefits to the workforce that come with Mental Toughness training in the context of Emotional Intelligence training seminars.

In this case, mental toughness is the willingness to look at our personal challenges without escaping reality.

Mental toughness is a byproduct of emotional intelligence, in that when we become emotionally reactive in a negative way we tend to lose our mental strength.

When we can think, we can be strategic which results in high-caliber decision-making.

Emotional intelligence and mental toughness are extremely underrated keys in leadership training that need urgent attention to improve the workplace scene.

Key Point #1 – The State of Affairs In The Workplace Today

Well, I am sure you know it, but I will write it anyway.

To understand how change can cause stress in the workplace, it is important to look at the reality that faces all professionals today.

The workplace has become a stressed place that needs to operate in stressful conditions, which require long hours, handling heavy workloads in an insensitive, and often, hostile workplace environment, coupled with a disharmonious and suspicion-based relationship with the management and leadership.

We see these conditions continue to worsen from day to day, week to week, month to month, resulting in a permanent state of stress in many professionals.

It wears people down and has extremely negative effects on their productivity and levels of intelligence.

This state of affairs often makes change the tipping point, where stress takes over. That’s why mental toughness training is required to be able to overcome the accumulative effects caused by stress.

Mental toughness training goes a long way to reduce the symptoms of stress in the workplace by providing a personal leadership development plan, which is a combination of strategic thinking skills and EQ skills.

Key Point #2 – Mental Toughness Makes the Difference Between Managing Change or Being Managed By Change

Truly accepting change as a state of affairs makes it manageable, simply because it is recognized, not ignored.

When things are recognized, they are being brought from their “hiding places” to the forefront and can be dealt with.

this is when you bring people like me to conduct think tanks, demonstrate and teach what the new kind of strategic thinking and strategic planning looks like.

And how the process of decision making should be conducted in these new times.

Yes, it’s simple, it’s called acceptance. Yet, I will tell you, that many organizations, and many people who are in top leadership positions but not just, avoid accepting new realities like the plague.

Lack of acceptance, which means thinking in old ways, acting in obsolete ways, operating by yesterday’s standards, dealing with people as commodities rather than human beings, using leadership styles of command and control, lack of proper use of strategic communication throughout the organization strata, all these features and more are symptoms of organizations that have not updated their thinking, day to day operations and long term vision.

Such organizations will be managed by change and will eventually find themselves obsolete in the business world.

It may take time, but it will happen.

Key Point #3 – What is Life Leadership About In The Context Of Mental Toughness?

So what is meant by life leadership?

Well simply put,  it is how you lead your own life and whether or not you are a person that is developing their own expression of day to day living in the way that you think, act, communicate.

And whether or not you truly lead by example in whatever it is that you do.

It being, that “BY EXAMPLE” are the two most important words in personal self-leadership and the leadership of others without which we cannot even begin to use the term leadership. (More on this later.)

Creating a personal leadership development plan is what I help people discover.

Because each person faces different challenges and therefore needs a unique personal leadership development plan.

Inevitably, the areas of personal development by at least 90%, involve the development of soft skills.

Life leadership is about learning to be the architect of your own life with standards, values & principles that keep you intact, and give you a sense of personal identity, make you feel strong, and can stand the shock-waves of change.

When I go to organizations and conduct such training, over time it makes a huge difference in the energy of the workplace, and it results in a level of teamwork that is very rare to see these days.

This undoubtedly is the best ROI for organizations that have a future.

Key Point #4 – So What Is Mental Toughness About – The Bigger Picture

Mental Toughness and The Power of Positive Thinking are coupled together, while mental weakness is a bi-product of a workforce environment that is negative, punitive and threatening.

Negativity weakens, while the power of positive thinking empowers!
Mental Toughness Training will, therefore, focus first and foremost, on the power of positive thinking!

You have to understand that to fight external negative influence you need internal “antibodies” that can fight off the invasion from outside just like with the process of immunization.

Therefore, getting mentally tough and emotionally resilient is absolutely critical to workforce stability.

Again, it is important to keep in mind that the power of positive thinking is far stronger than being negative and causes a chain of effective thought patterns and actions, which truly redefine what is a success.

Finally

when you accept, you see, you are aware, you don’t hide, and it is then, and only then, that you can move on to the next level, to the next success.

This is true on a personal level and organizational level.  Because the organization is made from people, and if people are stuck, the organization is stuck.

Eli Harari

The Life Coach for Professionals™