Building Elite Grit & Resilience
Our performance as a team and organisation are accelerated, or have the handbrakes pulled, through the 6 levers of human performance. Our resilience to maintain performance and wellbeing is challenged when a lever acts as a handbrake. Our grit, resilience, and drive to push through draw from our strong levers. Our accelerators.
When our goals are audacious and complex, having the resilience and grit to bounce back and to keep moving forward becomes a critical prerequisite. Thankfully we know that human beings have been leading the league in resilience, problem solving, and adaptation for more than 300,000 years.
Beyond simple 'self-care' in an effort to improve resiliency to challenges to a surface level, Building Elite Grit & Resilience directs the spotlight to our unique strengths and the evidence-based knowledge on what really accelerates our performance as innovative and gritty human beings, providing every individual and team with a bespoke roadmap and compass to perform and flourish.
Who we work with
You may be a…
- Project Delivery Team
- Talent | People | Wellbeing managers
- HR Team
- Sales Director
- Team Leader
- Athlete Coaching Team
- Sports Admin
- Director of Performance
- High Performance Manager
Knowledge
- Working, practical knowledge of what resilience really means, understanding of the 6 levers of human performance, and how these levers can show up in our work and lives to accelerate, or pull the handbrake,. on our resilience and ability to perform
- A framework to understand and guide your decisions and communication when deliberately and mindfully leading your team to build a performance of elite and sustainable performance, and thriving with your team in any environment
Resources
- Personalised leadership and strategy map - 'what does resilience and grit in the face of challenges look like in practice for us, how do the levers of performance accelerate or handbrake us, individually and as a team?'
- Ongoing access to eyeYou resources, personalised and curated for your team, to guide specific concrete processes (challenging conversation guides, cheat sheets and formats for conducting effective one-on-ones, integrating our strategic efforts to improve resilience into our concrete business strategy, people strategy etc
Intangibles
- A grittier and more adaptable team with the skills to thrive when the heat is hottest, and trust and performance flourish
- Leadership and culture and a climate in the workplace that understands and accepts the human condition, and how we can be supported to perform best
- Confidence in handling the levers required to expertly guide the wellbeing and performance of your team, knowing you are leaving nothing on the table
$5.30 per dollar return on investment on average found for mental health and resilience programs through reduced absenteeism
$5.30 per dollar return on investment on average found for mental health and resilience programs through reduced absenteeism (Deloitte 2026)
You could be
You are leading a team through a period of extreme market volatility and need to move staff from "threat appraisal" to "challenge appraisal" mindset
An R&D team is facing a long-cycle project failure and needs grit development to maintain momentum during "the dip" before a breakthrough
Teachers are facing high emotional labor and need evidence-based resilience training to maintain wellbeing and sustainably robust and focused performance
A medical and performance unit needs to sharpen and reinforce their understand the principles of building grit in elite athletes, for example and especially those navigating the psychological hurdles of a 12-month return-from-injury program, or at the very beginning or closing stages of their playing career
An athlete coaching team needs to build "Clutch" mental strength for a squad heading into a high-stakes finals series with a history of underperforming under pressure
Junior and senior school deputies need to support their cohorts through the intense grading and reporting "peak cycles" to minimise mid-term staff absenteeism
A busy development team utilising seminar-style sessions to develop the capability and resilience for audacious goals