This course is for anyone in a long pursuit who wants more than talent to carry them: someone building a career, mastering a craft, or leading through a demanding season. Its examples come from competitive sport, and its practices travel to whatever stage you are at.
The course brings grit, resilience and growth mindset together in one framework you can train, VIPER: Vision, Intention, Purpose, Energized Execution and Resilience. It helps you embrace challenge, keep going through difficulty, learn from each setback and keep growing over the long run.
Each module pairs assessments that show where you stand with exercises that build the skill. In Develop Your Grit & Growth Mindset you meet The Three Hard Things Exercise, a daily practice of choosing something difficult, and Meet Me in Ten Years. Develop Your Purpose includes Values Clarification and a Purpose Statement. Energized Execution looks at flow and deliberate practice through tools such as Your Personal Flow Profile, and the resilience module adds the Performance Journal and the 100 Seconds Mental Workout, a daily identity statement with a short mental rehearsal. Integration and Sustain & Flourish bring it together into a routine you keep.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sharpen, the move about attention and focus. If your team chose Mindset in Work Well Together, the shared tool Cultivate a Growth Mindset is one bridge, and this course takes that block much further for each person. Begin with the first module, and complete its assessments before its developmental exercises, as the course notes advise; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course lets you look around first.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life