And to do that, it has to be more tailored. Gaj: Might be situations where you want to step back and allow perhaps people you delegate responsibility to, to actually take control of a situation or a meeting or a presentation. One of the key differences between a qualitative and a quantitative approach is the used of instruments to quantify the data. Can you imagine? Stephanie: Midnight, first of Jan. Easy, yeah. So actually I don’t need my emails right now, I’m going to focus on this task. It is essential for runners to be mentally tough near the end of a marathon. Hall also parsed the data to see which components of mental toughness most influence performance and what role mental skills and “hardiness” play. What is the message that I’m sending to the audience, whether it’s my manager, my team, the organisation, my customers?’ And so that is really critical in that sense of reflection and self-awareness, which probably runs through all four of these factors, we have that self-awareness and the opportunity for us to gain that insight, we’re really restricted in lots of ways. Mental toughness didn’t ensure runners met a goal time, Hall clarified. Gaj: Absolutely. Rather, it influenced finishing time, meaning without mental toughness, finish times would have been slower. Mental toughness is a personality trait which embraces in a very practical way, ideas such as mindset, character, resilience and grit. Gaj applies a Model of Mental toughness developed by AQR that identifies 4 Critical Components to mental toughness, Find out what the ‘4 Cs are. What would it look like for example, if I was low commitment or one of my team is or my team as a whole, sort of skews towards like commitment? And so that brings a sense of personal responsibility to whatever it is. Maybe it allows you the time to reflect and to think about what has been happening rather than being on the front foot in all situations. af TEC Live - Leadership Insights øjeblikkeligt på din tablet, telefon eller browser - download ikke nødvendigt. We love the science behind it-. This is phenomenal.’. There are varying degrees of mental toughness. So what’s one person’s clutter is another person’s order. Yes, I know I have the knowledge, skills and abilities to achieve this challenge but I also need the right support to enable this to happen. Describe what Mental Toughness is and how it affects performance, wellbeing and behaviour; Measure an individual’s Mental Toughness and make predictions from that; Develop Mental Toughness, where needed. It’s like serving the same food to everyone. Mental toughness isn’t a quality people are born with. Now, if you are narcissistic with the single intention of helping yourself and yourself only, agreed, it is perhaps not the best strategy to use as a leader. But if you’re not convinced that that’s going to be the case, it’s a much harder sell, and this is what we tend to find. At this point, they need to be mentally tough and push themselves through the. One question that is commonly thrown around in conversations centering around sport performance is how much of sport success is “mental?” Most people think this number is quite high, sometimes even suggesting close to 100%. And so if you feel that having more confidence is going to help you to be able to achieve better outcomes, you’re more likely to kind of look at opportunities and strategies in which to do that. There is a belief that mental toughness and mental health are contradictory in elite sport . And so therefore the activation energy principle says, ‘Look at the things around you that typically cause you distraction.’ If it’s an email, is your phone. So there is an inherent issue with that. Gaj: How are we going to still allow ourselves to be able to be a little bit uncomfortable, to be able to step up and do what we need to do? Gaj: So for me, commitment is about delivering on promises. So you work out what is the energy that I need to activate a positive mindset to overcome this challenge and increase the amount of energy I would need to be distracted, which is kind of interesting. Gaj: My pleasure. It’s three in 100 in the general population. And so any opportunities to do that can get you to perhaps at some point to be a little bit of a passenger, to reflect on things, to not be on the front foot on all occasions. It’s complex (it involves focus, belief, drive, self-talk, communication skills, and more) and it’s on a dynamic continuum, meaning abilities can increase or atrophy over time. https://media.whooshkaa.com/show/7009/episode/518719.mp3. Dehydration Affects Mental Toughness and Performance. As your mental toughness reserves increase, you will see a significant improvement in your performance. Stephanie: So let’s go into the elements because when you talk about, and I have heard you talk about the model, emotional intelligence comes to mind as far as control. Gaj: So there’s that sense of overcoming challenges and the mindset you use. Factors impacting on performance - Introduction, Impact of emotional factors on performance, Impact of physical factors on performance - Fitness, Impact of physical factors on performance - Skills, Impact of physical factors on performance - Tactics, How factor interaction impacts on performance, Religious, moral and philosophical studies. But then it’s also then the regular support. Whenever I am asked to defend this position – that mental toughness and mental health are not the same – I use the same example. And those four factors resulted in having significant impact on people’s performance and ability. Gaj: No, I think I’d put a post up on the Life Of An Entrepreneur and that had been observed by a few people and as I was paying for the bill, the individual had-. Great choices result in a better life. So we all have a baseline of confidence in which we operate in and what we tend to find is that that then has a consequence. Copyright © 2020 The Executive Connection (TEC). Very interesting. Mental toughness is considered one of the key attributes required in athletes as physical ability and talent alone are not enough to be successful in this field. Bad choices result in a poor life.’. Where’s the crossover do you think? I heard this fantastic quote the other day which was, ‘Good choices result in a good life. Gaj: Yeah. Gaj: And not poor in terms of monetary but poor just in terms of options and situations. The environment impacts our personality so differently. So you make it harder for you to actually get distracted-. So with all of that in mind, as a leader, if I’m looking at my team and I think there’s a challenging mental toughness and it might be shown by the way that the team responds to setbacks, that there’s a setback, they’ll take it to heart or it really throws everyone’s confidence because it was a big setback. Learn Mental Game Strategies to Improve Composure in Sports! Jim Loehr, a well-known sports psychologist and author of many mental toughness books, describes mental toughness as follows: Mental toughness is the ability to consistently perform to the upper range of your talent and skill, regardless of competitive circumstances. “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” – Bobby Knight. So I’m thinking of when I have to have a specific output like a board report, and I tell people and we’ll make a joke of it, ‘No one interrupt me. But what exactly is mental toughness — and how does an athlete develop it? As a peak performance coach, Gaj Ravichandra assists individuals, sporting teams and educational institutions to enhance and maximise their potential and performance. As a Peak Performance coach, Gaj Ravichandra, assists individuals, sporting teams and educational institutions to enhance and maximise their potential and performance.Do you believe that you are contr... – Lyssna på What is Mental Toughness and how does it affect your Performance? When I’ve been listening to you talk about this, is choice is really a big part of it that I’m hearing you saying. It’s hardly surprising therefore that the issue of mental health in athletes is not exactly top of the sports health agenda. Many marathon runners often talk of hitting the wall: a psychological barrier where their bodies seize up and they feel like they cannot go on. Gaj: Absolutely. So confidence is a choice in a lot of ways. And so what we tend to find with a lot of low to medium performers is that the way they look at challenge is very different to how a high performer looks at challenge. Mental toughness isn’t a quality people are born with. Read about our approach to external linking. So if we get a sense of what is actually the thought that is taking place in the heads of our people, that can help us to understand what’s going on. Sport Psychology is an emerging new field within the world of psychology and athletics that concentrates on preparing the mind of the athlete as thoroughly as the body. One of the highest compliments an athlete can get is the label "mentally tough." Stephanie: So it’s about being intentional, isn’t it? So they said, ‘Why are we not talking about this? But we do it all the time. Stephanie: If you don’t really believe you can do it, you find the light. Gaj: It is. Was a group study of personalities and how it links to the dark triad of personality, the Machiavellianistic, the narcissistic and psychopathy, but also mental toughness. You usually get broken in overcoming a challenge or a problem because you lose your focus on things. Over the past several years, coaches and athletes alike have started to realize Resilience or hardiness versus Mental Toughness. And so that is also a sense of empowering somebody to feel like you are in control and you can see some of the links coming back between each of the factors as well. In Gestalt psychology, do you want to get too deep. Athletes, coaches, and sport psychologists have consistently implicated mental toughness as one of the most important psychological characteristics related to success in sports. So absolutely, those choices that we make can dictate the outputs in a lot of ways and it’s about us taking ownership. This is great news because all athletes can benefit from mental toughness training. For any athlete to deliver a gold medal performance, mental toughness is an essential ingredient. But if you’re doing it in a way that demonstrates a sense of community, a sense of tribe with your people, where you’re bringing people together against your competitors, against the challenging situation or the environment that you’re in, perhaps that could be a benefit to helping them and to helping your customers to get the best outcomes. It’s just going to be cruisey. Gaj: Yeah, so there are probably a number of things that a leader can do. In professional sports, there aren’t huge differences between athletes in terms of potential, training, or physical ability.The determining factors of success, therefore, lie in the psychological realm. So that can be quite helpful. Are the outputs worth it?’ The second thing they might do is they might say, ‘Well, it’s going to be hard. Powerful strategies for learning a composed mindset can be developed, but you must first strip away the mental ball and chains that … Stephanie:  And be interesting to see how people respond to that because in a past life we would have had people coming to us saying, ‘Can you do resilience training for my organisation?’ We were chatting on the way over about… something on the ABC this morning about an organisation doing resilience training and mindfulness for young children. And so that is a critical piece. Gaj: Absolutely. Consider a marathon runner. Stephanie: So there’s a theme through all of that. It’s complex. And at 2:00 in the morning, I wrote an email to the publishers to saying, ‘Can I please meet with these people? But, how and why do such seemingly personal issues affect work performance so much? We behave in a way because we do get something in return from that behaviour. When it’s cold outside, I’m in the month of May.’, Gaj: And this mindset, to choose your reality, to overcome a problem or a challenge by saying, ‘I’m going to turn the problem into an opportunity,’ we use that word probortunity-. Tell us a bit about the model. At this point, they need to be mentally tough and push themselves through the wall if they are to complete the event. And whether you’re a leader, whether it’s about self-leadership, leading a team, leading an organisation, we inherently are bad at creating spaces for ourselves to think and reflect, we’re caught up in all this stuff that’s happening around us. And what they had been doing for 20 years is trying to understand what were the key elements of mental toughness and how was it resilient to other sort of key terms that people were looking at, like grit and resilience and so forth. The Hull researchers carried out two studies to show how mental toughness was related to performance and cognitive appraisal. Gaj: So the words are, ‘I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. Gaj: So they’re going to include sadism. Athletes, professional and amateur alike, are better informed than ever about the importance and power of mental clarity, but still in the dark about the crucial link between heart and mind. Gaj: So what is it that we can be doing to kind of change the way that we look at this challenge? Mental Toughness is a … As your mental toughness reserves increase, you will see a significant improvement in your performance. : a psychological barrier where their bodies seize up and they feel like they cannot go on. And to get a sense of that, they started looking at academic ability versus these components of mental toughness in terms of success and happiness. And of course we all have challenges and we all have obstacles that come in our way and it’s about identifying what those things are and how do we play on our strengths and try and optimise them to try and get to the outcomes that we want to get to? It is about not giving up even though you are struggling and seeing a task through to the end. We call this living in the discomfort, right? It cannot be 25 people sitting on a course expecting them all to take away exactly the same things, that they’re going to go back into the office tomorrow and start applying. In fact many researchers have attributed Mental Toughness as being a significant influencing factor contributing to successful performance excellence as well as a performance enhancer. Gaj: Challenge is so vital and part of that is because we are constantly faced with more challenges and I’m yet to hear a CEO tell us that there’s less challenges they’re expecting next year. Is it actually negative in a way or deconstructive to have these behaviours? Stephanie: Is that kind of how you frame it? The other one is challenge. I’m doing this thing,’ but that’s what I do. Can you control your destiny or are you leaving it up to fate to kind of do that for you? I’m going to face some reality around this and what do I need in terms of support to allow me to meet this challenge? Impact of mental toughness on performance curriculum-key-fact Being mentally tough involves continuing to persevere through the more difficult times in performance . This provides the sport psychologist or performance psychologist with incredible insight into how to assist this performer. Gaj: Absolutely. And so just being mindful of the mindfulness training and what is the impact on children and ensuring that we’re not giving a blanket approach that is too deep. When athletes “see” challenges instead of seeing threats, their mind and body flow in synchrony and often the athlete improves mental toughness and reaches his or her full athletic potential as a result. So the fourth C, can you teach someone to be confident? So for example, shut down your Outlook or turn off your computer because you know it’s going to take you four minutes to boot up your computer. Gaj: A high performer looks at the opportunity and they look at it a couple of ways. That kind of emphasis on people and development. Confidence for me is the foundational piece of all of this. This leads to you continuing in the event and completing it to achieve your targeted time. High-performance athletes claim that 90% of their success comes from mental training and ability. And so, went there, took my family, had some wonderful experiences working in various international consultancies and then set up Kompass in sort of 2013, and I’ve grown that and now sort of operating across sort of four or five continents at the moment, which is great. So first of all, you don’t have to tell the whole story, but you will recognise the other day you’re actually a famous person on TEC Live. Gaj: So I spend half the time in Sydney and half the time, probably about a quarter of the time, in the Middle East and the rest traveling to other places. Pre Shot Routines – A Great Example. But if we really want change and we want students in particular or employees to have that change and to buy into that change, we are going to have to go deep. Do I have to clean up my desk first? So tell us a little bit about it. So yes, you’ve given me a goal, you’ve given me a target to achieve, but what’s your stake in this? And that’s the research that has been coming out. So what can we do to positively manipulate the people in our teams, our customers and our shareholders? Thank you so much for your time. This is a relatively new area of research to sport and, although the concept of mental toughness was first explored in 1957 (Raymond Cattel), it is only since 2000 that significant research has been undertaken. And so being able to do that effectively allows you to be much more successful in terms of not only the thought processes of managing a situation, but also then post that situation, how you deal with that. And so in that context, someone with a low preference towards commitment would be somebody who perhaps isn’t necessarily goal oriented, they might be a bit loose when it comes to doing their work. Gaj: So somebody around that needs to have a mindset that really says, ‘Well, what is the impact of me demonstrating to other people that I am not delivering on my promises? I was just thinking when you were talking about, that’s assuming that everyone’s the same. You know that cognitive cycle we have of the behaviour that people might show of disengagement and disempowerment, it’s usually linked to the feelings that they have and those feelings are driven by their thoughts. As a person, it’s my choice how I’m going to approach each of these areas of mental toughness. Anchoring is sports psychology that the swimmer does or says or thinks either standing behind or on the starting block, just seconds before the start of an important race. But that’s kind of one size fits all, isn’t it? Everyone reacts differently. I was going to sing it for you! And so they started understanding that they were these four critical components to mental toughness, commitment, challenge, confidence and control. 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