Mental Performance Therapy
Dr.Vernice Richards
Mental Performance Therapy for
Business Leaders
A career built around performing at a high level.
Making decisions with incomplete information. Navigating uncertainty. Solving problems. Leading people. Carrying responsibility. Keep moving when the outcome isn’t guaranteed.
The business performance culture requires and develops powerful mental adaptations.
Entrepreneurs
You move through uncertainty, take calculated risks, spot opportunities, experiment, pivot and keep going when the outcome isn't guaranteed.
Executives
You manage complexity, make consequential decisions, create structure, influence others and carry accountability at the highest level.
Over time, the performance culture shapes the thoughts, responses and output. The qualities that support success like decisiveness, persistence, control, speed, resourcefulness, can become limiting when the default is the response to every situation, in business or in life.
And sometimes, the qualities that made you effective become the very things that make it difficult to operate differently when the situation changes.
Business Strengths That Become Blind Spots
DECISIVENESS
DRIVE
RESOURCEFULNESS
STRATEGIC
THINKING
ADAPTABILITY
CONTROL
PERSISTENCE
Discomfort with ambiguity or lack of patience
Difficulty slowing down or recognizing when enough is enough
Difficulty asking for help or feeling responsible for solving everything
Difficulty staying present when there is always another possibility to consider
Difficulty staying with something when there is no immediate need to change it
Difficulty tolerating uncertainty or allowing others to take the lead
Difficulty recognizing when persistence is no longer the most effective response
The Hybrid Mindset for Business
The performance culture of business rewards initiative, decisiveness, strategic thinking, adaptability, resourcefulness and the ability to operate when the path forward isn't always clear. These qualities help entrepreneurs and executives navigate complexity, build, lead and make consequential decisions. But the same qualities can become limiting when they become the only way you know how to operate.
The Hybrid Mindset draws from the strengths of different performance cultures to expand the mental range developed through business. Learn More About The Hybrid Mindset
Sport offers different perspectives on discipline, recovery, consistency and performing under pressure. Read The Athlete & The Entrepreneur
Performing arts offer different approaches to presence, uncertainty, creativity and responding in real time. Read The Entrepreneur & The Artist
Cultivating a Hybrid Mindset gives you more ways to lead, decide and respond. More capacity to slow down without losing momentum. More tolerance for uncertainty without rushing toward an answer. More discernment about when to persist and when to change course. More ability to delegate, recover and create space for others. More flexibility when the demands of your role change.
That's adaptive performance. The ability to draw on different ways of thinking without losing the qualities that made you effective in the first place.
Read: Think Like an Athlete. Create Like an Artist. Build Like an Entrepreneur.