Mental Performance Consulting Group offers a behavioural, methodical and practical approach to individual and organizational excellence.

Our goal is to create leaders and teams that consistently give their best performance in daily high-pressure situations.

Performance excellence is achieved when the client is able to focus, analyze and decide in a way that feels natural and effortless. We want our clients to always act in what we define as a “green zone” where pressure may be intense, but it has a positive effect, because the client is doing what he or she enjoys doing.

Too much pressure becomes stressful. Our physiological response is to survive so our vision narrows and our body becomes tense in a fight or flight mode. Our creativity shuts down and we seldom make the best choices. This is the “red zone”.

Not enough pressure and we become complacent and, while not sensing any threat, our enthusiasm and creativity tend to ebb. Boredom can result and even though this “blue zone” is not especially stressful, it is where a lot of derailment can occur.

Red and blue zones happen and can’t be avoided. So self-awareness, which is central to our methodology, is vital to help us understand how we behave in these zones and how we can avoid them. With practice, the green zone can be created, again, through self-awareness that guides to plan and organize and set schedules so our toughest challenges are presented when we’re best able to engage them.

An engagement with MPCG begins with in-depth consultation employing assessments such as the FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation – Behaviour) and the LEA (Leadership Effectiveness Analysis). From sport psychology, The Attentional and Interpersonal Style (TAIS) assessment forecasts how people perform under pressure and can predict a person’s tendencies to make mistakes.

Our assessment process is especially rigorous. It’s far more than numbers on a scale. Data obtained are both quantitative and qualitative from interview-based 360 instruments. Resulting qualitative data informs the coaching process with lengthy, comprehensive reports compiling direct quotes from all raters. Working with the HyperRESEARCH qualitative analysis application, every transcript is analyzed and discussed and forms the basis for coaching.

Then, it’s a coaching process with mutually derived goals for the client that are critical to the client’s day-to-day role. We establish consistent and regular one-on-one consultations in which successes and failures are discussed, insights are offered and new challenges are assigned help the client master new skills and improve on weaknesses. Ours is a project-management based process based on coaching regimens employed for Olympic campaigns. We use a cloud-based application, Goalscape, to give both the coach and the client round-the-clock access to goals, progress and documentation of the engagement.

None of this occurs in a vacuum. The goal is to get leaders outside of themselves to better engage with the stakeholders that matter most: direct reports, team members, supervisors, family members, etc.

The client defines the end game. Where does he or she desire or need to be? Some clients engage us indefinitely and others base our work around specific events that require their ultimate performance.