The ability to maintain focus, control emotions and perform under pressure is often the difference between winning and losing. Winning Mind, LLC is a high performance consulting firm dedicated to helping people dramatically improve their ability to perform under pressure.
The Winning Mind Team specializes in identifying and developing Mental Toughness in golfers. We provide bottom-line, practical information based on years of experience working with elite performers in sport. Profile data from our unique WM Assessment process is used to pinpoint your golfers’ strengths and weaknesses and to customize Mental Toughness development plans that improve focus, confidence and commitment on every shot.
The following packages are outlined for golf teams, but they can be customized for golf instruction centers and for individual golfers.
Winning Mind Performance Packages include:
Mental Toughness Training
The first step in developing Mental Toughness. Playing at the top of your game when it really counts requires an understanding of how pressure can negatively impact concentration, emotions and confidence. In this program, your golfers will learn simple techniques that will immediately improve how they handle pressure in any aspect of their game.
Mental Toughness Profiling & Feedback
Your golf team under the microscope. We use our mental game assessment process to develop a complete picture of a player’s psychological strengths and weaknesses. Individual interviews allow for profile debriefs and the setting of developmental goals for improving performance. Coaches gain insights that will help them bring out the best in all their players.
Mental Toughness Development
Ongoing involvement produces lasting changes. We combine Mental Toughness Training and Profiling with one-on-one coaching sessions to develop the complete player. This is the kind of work necessary for a player to take it to the next level.
Mental Toughness Training
Program Length: ½ day
What is Mental Toughness and how does it fit into your golf game? Elite performers in any sport share common mental strengths. They understand the concepts of intensity, focus, confidence, commitment and adaptability. They’ve built these mental elements into every aspect of their performance. Combined with highly developed physical abilities, Mental Toughness becomes the key to championship performance.
Your players will come to appreciate the enormous impact that mental factors have on success and failure. They will see how easily mental mistakes can undermine a solid physical game. Most importantly, they will develop a working knowledge of how pressure creates all sorts of performance headaches. This is a critical first step to mastering techniques for taking care of business when the pressure is on.
For the coach, there is time devoted to trouble-shooting and discussing general strategies for helping golfers improve performance and practice habits.
- Learn how elite performers concentrate.
- Understand the relationship between paying attention and avoiding mental mistakes.
- Learn techniques for improving focus, managing stress and developing confidence.
- Q & A session with team.
- Coaches troubleshooting session.
Mental Toughness Profiling & Feedback
Program Length: 2-3 days
The Winning Mind Assessment Process is key for developing Mental Toughness. Our performance profiling process combines in-depth player interviews, insights from coaches, and mental game testing. We use The Attentional & Interpersonal Style (TAIS) Inventory to benchmark a player’s mental strengths and weaknesses against those of elite players. This process has improved the performance of Olympic and professional athletes (including amateur and pro golfers from around the world), Navy SEALs, the US Army Special Forces, and Fortune 500 executives. This process has proven especially effective with elite amateur, junior and professional golfers around the world.
Armed with profiles of each of your golfers, we can easily pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses on and off the course. We start with our Mental Toughness Training program and continue with a complete debrief of TAIS results. Players begin to see the implications of high and low scores and how they react under pressure.
Individual player sessions are conducted to provide profile feedback and create a Mental Toughness Development plan. Plans are customized based on profile data to help improve and maintain Focus, confidence, commitment, intensity and adaptability. A final debrief with coaches includes recommendations for ongoing Mental Toughness development and the keys to working optimally with each golfer.
- Mental Toughness Training session to provide basic information on performing under pressure.
- Winning Mind Profiling Process:
- Each athlete completes WM Performance Assessment.
- Individual feedback sessions with athletes to discuss profiles.
- Feedback session with coaches to talk about bringing out the best in their athletes.
Mental Toughness Development
Program Length: Ongoing
Many golfers who work with us significantly improve their performance after their initial meeting. This isn’t surprising. Becoming aware of important obstacles to peak performance can, by itself, improve one’s game (at least temporarily). But old habits die hard and lasting change can only be made with a commitment to regular mental training. There is no one-minute solution to developing Mental Toughness. Focus, confidence, and commitment that hold up under the toughest conditions are skills that must be built over time.
The WM Development program lasts a minimum of three months, with regularly scheduled sessions every other week (these can be done in person or on the phone). Players and coaches also benefit from on-call service for post-round debriefs, talking through tough times and helping reinforce good habits after successful rounds. We will work with you to get the most out of a player.
- Mental Toughness Training.
- Mental Toughness Profiling & Feedback.
- Ongoing sessions with individuals for Mental Toughness Development targets.
- Specific objectives outlined with each athlete.
- Regularly scheduled meetings for long-term performance improvement.
- On-call service for problem-solving and crisis management.
Program spans three months to one year with lower costs for longer engagements.
For more information, please contact Geoff Miller at miller@thewinningmind.com
San Diego Sports Psychology 