Activate Your A-Game®

Dr. Cory Middleton’s Ultimate Mindset & Culture Workshop Experience

Quick Message from Dr. Cory:

I wanted to share with you a little background about the ‘Activate your A-Game’ workshop experience. This program brings together over 20 years of experience working with elite performers, researching exceptional performers and assessing people performing (including a PhD on Mental Toughness at the Australian Institute of Sport). What becomes very clear working in this environment is that there are clear and consistent patterns that separate those who excel compared to those who struggle. I’m talking about patterns of belief, patterns of motivation, ways of dealing with difficulty, and good old-fashioned disciplines practiced daily. The great news is that a high performing mindset is not complicated to understand and can be achieved with training.

The ‘Activate your A-Game’ is not a standard, one-size-fits-all ‘resilience’ workshop. Instead, the A-Game workshop gets results because it uncovers memorable insights about your teams personal story, inspiring team members to want to lift for their true A-Game. Participants find the A-Game strategies incredibly influential in the way they approach their own work.

This workshop experience gives you the confidence and focus to take your game to the next level. What could you achieve if your team delivered A-Game results?

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Workshop Flow

The ‘Activate your A-Game’ workshop experience can be delivered in a variety of formats, including:

  • Keynote experience
  • 2-hour team workshop
  • ½ Day team workshop
  • 1 Day Workshop
  • 2 Day Workshop
  • 3 Day intensive workshop

Dr. Cory will always work with you before your team session to understand the dynamics of your current team environment. With this in mind, Dr. Cory incorporates the most meaningful strategies into your workshop. The more time you have, the more A-Game strategies can be included in your session.

The overall flow begins by engaging the audience with an insightful look at the way their mindset and behaviour are linked in their current circumstances. The team describes themselves at their best and at their worst, whilst drawing out the personal triggers that send them to their best or worst. It is at this point where we aim to create a fundamental shift in the way we think about the problem, empowering the team with a sense of purpose and control over their immediate future. As a team, we double-down on this new found energy and discuss practical, proven strategies to be used in the situation they are confronted with at present. The whole workshop experience is dynamic yet authentic. Inspiring moments backed-up with practical strategies to improve mindset and results.

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The Leadership Experience

6 Modules Support your leaders to improve their experience of leading

6 modules & coaching delivered over 10-months 

Quick Message from Dr. Cory:

Leaders have had a tough time leading your business throughout 2020 & 2021.  As we prepare for 2022, let us help your leaders have a better time leading - that is, let us improve the daily experience of those valued leaders guiding your business forward into 2022 and beyond. 

Now is not the time to tell them to toughen up with a  resilience program. Leaders are craving meaningful support in what has been a most challenging time. "The Leadership Experience Program" listens to your leaders hopes and their challenges with a  great deal of authentic empathy.  The program engages your leaders in finding an inspiring way forward through real and complex organisational pressures. Leaders will co-design the program, allowing us to be laser focused on creating meaningful change to the way they experience their work of leading. 

The Leadership Experience program is a 10-month intensive program, blending an effective blend of group workshops with individual coaching support. 

An example of the content included in 'The Leadership Experience' program is;

  • Building a strong motivational compass (What is their vision and plan to realise their full potential?)
  • Inspiring beliefs & confidence (Building deeper and more inspiring beliefs about ways to lead for results whilst bringing the team on the journey)
  • Emotional intelligence (effectively manage personal stressors that can sometimes get in the way of effective leadership)
  • Attentional control (How to actively stay focused on your strategic objectives whilst managing the day-to-day)
  • Powerful communication disciplines (effectively read audiences, build persuasive messages, and deliver inspiring formal and informal communication)

Key outcomes for this program include:

  1. Acknowledge ownership of the way your team experience your leadership
  2. Effectively re-focus and prioritise on constructive leadership motivations and behaviours
  3. Leadership mastery. Learn how to build and sustain continuous growth in leadership effectiveness, even under pressure
  4. Build healthy relationships across the business, creating more supportive and stress reducing support mechanisms.
  5. Communication effectiveness. Enhance awareness of different communication styles and improve ability to adapt style to suit.
  6. Mindfully connect to more positive and healthy leadership beliefs and ways of working.
  7. Maintain a healthy balance between the work, family and personal/individual recovery
  8. Renewed focus and energy on personal wellness goals that will support a healthy experience of being a leader.
  9. Practical leadership strategies that can be applied immediately! 

I'd be delighted to walk you through what we could achieve with your leadership team. Get in touch and let's talk about "The Leadership Experience". 

Have a conversation with Dr Cory today.

Discuss how to support your leadership through times of pressure, change and uncertainty.

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The 'Head-Talk' Workshop

Support your people, gain control and clarity, master your inner head-talk 

Quick Message from Dr. Cory:

The Head-Talk program helps your team understand the narrative they bring to surviving and thriving, in their work and in their personal well-being. This session has specifically been built manage the complexities and challenges presented to managing prolonged periods of stress and workplace pressure. The game has changed, is our Head-Talked ready for the level of focus and commitment needed in 2024? This workshop elevates the conversation beyond the fundamentals of resilience, to help teams build superior mental resources to outperform the market. Connect with Dr Cory Middleton today to have a conversation about the head-talk of your team and your 2024 goals.  

The Head-Talk program options include:

  • a 1 hour Keynote event
  • a 2 hour interactive, high energy team workshop
  • a 1-Day Inspiring Team Workshop

The content can be varied in discussion with Dr Cory Middleton before the session. Cory will speak with you before the session to understand the specific 'talk' that may be going on in the heads of your people. The session is then shaped to unpack that narrative that needs to be discussed with your team. Some examples of common points of focus include:

  • Tactical Goal Setting - Respond to new market conditions & limitations. Build 30-day / 60-day / 90-day action plans. Remain tightly focused on top priorities. Build momentum and sense of progress.
  • Motivating leaders and teams - Manage personal and team anxiety. Inspire the troops to march together, potentially like they never have before, in pursuit of meaningful steps to full recovery and beyond. Inspire a time of greatness!
  • Personal resilience and mental wellness - Inspire your team with practical ways to be deliberate in training your mind and body for resilience. Understand how your daily actions (or lack thereof) leave an imprint on your soul. Learn how to lift from a mentality of surviving to one of thriving.  
  • Re-building business confidence - Understand how trust and confidence can be built with your people and your clients. Help team members really 'see each other' and their needs. Learn how to renew shared goals with clients. 

Have a conversation with Dr Cory today.
Discuss how to support your team through to full-work, full-performance.

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Quick Message from Dr. Cory:

This program takes a direct, raw and honest look at team attitudes, behaviours and cultural patterns, through the lens of the Mental Toughness Framework. Your leaders and teams will participate in an inspiring group experience that causes reflection and change. This program is for those wanting to gain quick and direct linkages from them Mental Toughness Framework back into super practical team patterns.

The Mental Toughness Method helps your team do four things:

  • Mater Motivation: Become better friends with what motivates you. Discover how to set a direction that matters. Learn to find motivation in pursuing complete mastery as a worthy goal in itself. Understand how to feel genuinely motivated, even through tough times.   
  • Build Belief: Their is power in certainty. Yet we live in very uncertain times. Learn how to train your mind for great confidence, belief in potential, and overall mental strength. Control the narrative that feeds your inner belief. Succeed where others fail.
  • Activate Emotional intelligence: Improve the way you handle conflict, change and pressure. Learn how having a healthy empathy for others and a healthy empathy for the self can help you lift out of anxiety, to act with purpose, control and clarity. Train your response pattern for intelligent performances.
  • Optimise their focus and concentration: Improve alignment between what you focus on and what is important for performance. Learn to master the art of presence and 'holding time and space' for high performance moments.

Mental Toughness Method: Program Flow

The ‘8-Month Mental Toughness Training Program’ includes an individual intake interviews with every participant, followed by 4 x 1-Day Inspiring Workshops.

  • Pre-program interview (Month 1) : 30-Minute,  1 to 1 interview with Dr Cory Middleton - assessing personal sticking points and motivations
  • Workshop 1 (Month 2): Master Motivation
  • Workshop 2 (Month 4): Build Belief
  • Workshop 3 (Month 6): Activate Emotional Intelligence
    • Workshop 4 (Month 8): Optimise Focus

    Why Mental Toughness?

    The year has 2020 brought about a rapidly changing world of business, with increasing demands on employees. These pressures and changes take their toll - on mental health, physical well-being, but also business agility & performance.

    The path back to recovery requires mentally tough leaders and teams, capable of doing the much-needed heavy lifting to rebuild sales pipelines, reactivate operations, and find business confidence. Helping leaders and teams find their mental toughness helps the following challenges:

    • Ongoing uncertainty in the market
    • Customer conversations about spending
    • Employee anxiety and reduced motivation
    • Panic and job insecurity
    • Maintaining accountability - helping people stick to numbers that seem unachievable
    • Overwhelming number of fires to put out, whilst expected to strategically work on the future of the business
    • Having authentic and yet challenging conversations with clients and with internal staff
    • Changing expectations about ways of working
    • Leaders may have a loss of confidence within themselves
    • Managing the sheer volume of heavy lifting that will be required (whilst avoiding burnout)
    • Fighting fires at work and at home
    • At a time like this, mental toughness could be the difference.

    Key 'Fortius-Mindset Method' Components

    Have a conversation with Dr Cory Middleton today.

    Discuss how to support your leaders and grow your level of business results.

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