Mental Toughness
Build resilience and perform with confidence under pressure. This Mental Toughness course helps you understand the 4Cs model and develop practical techniques to manage stress, stay motivated, and maintain performance in demanding workplace situations.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Understand mental toughness and how it impacts performance at work
- Identify stress, pressure and challenge responses
- Apply the 4Cs model to build confidence, control, commitment and challenge
- Develop practical strategies to perform effectively under pressure
- Strengthen focus, motivation and resilience in everyday work situations
Who is this course for?
Professionals, managers and teams who need to perform well under pressure, manage stress effectively, and build resilience in demanding roles. Suitable for employees at all levels.
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Course Outline
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
Why Choose Underscore for Mental Toughness Training?
Underscore Group delivers practical, instructor-led leadership and personal development training that helps people communicate clearly, build confidence, and work more effectively with others. Based in Sussex and supporting organisations across the UK, we specialise in relatable, real-world learning that strengthens capability at every level — from early-career professionals to experienced managers.
Every session is tailored to your organisation’s culture, values and ways of working, ensuring the skills taught transfer directly into day-to-day behaviour. Our leadership and people-skills programmes are trusted by organisations across finance, aviation, healthcare, construction and professional services.
- Trusted by leading UK organisations
- Expert trainers with real business experience
- Small-group sessions (6–8 people)
- Practical, hands-on learning approach
- Virtual & onsite delivery across the UK
- Six months of post-course support
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