Mental Skills Development
Suffering stress and anxiety is not a prerequisite for success in self-employment–there's a better way. Mental skills provide you with the means of coping effectively with difficulty and achieving your goals. Essential Mental Skills takes you a step further with practical application of mental skills, and provides live onboarding, mental skills assessment, video lessons and much more.
Why This Course Is For You
And what you can do about it
You're technically excellent at what you do. You have the knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and drive to succeed. Yet something's holding you back from making your business successful, or maybe from even starting.
Does this sound familiar?
❌ You struggle with impostor syndrome, despite your proven track record
❌ You lie awake at night worrying about meeting your bills or paying wages
❌ You undercharge or undersell yourself, despite delivering exceptional value
❌ You avoid pitching to bigger clients because you doubt you're "ready"
❌ You keep all these challenges to yourself and hope things will improve, but they don't
You've been told that technical skills and hard work are enough. But the problem isn't talent, ability, or expertise—it's self-doubt, lack of confidence, and poor composure under pressure. The problem is underdeveloped mental skills.
Anxiety, stress, lost opportunities, underperformance in crucial moments, chronic stress, and feast-or-famine cycles that prevent you from scaling your success.
✅ You can develop and master mental skills through guidance and systematic practice, regardless of your starting point.
Files & Resources
The course includes all the materials and resources you will need to complete the program and support you after it's complete. First, you'll receive an onboarding session to explain the entire process and walk you through the content. You also receive lesson slides, recordings of all sessions, PDF resources, access to the community space, and a completion certificate upon completing the course. You'll also get lifetime access to this course, including all future updates.
Testimonials
Clients include business and career people, athletes, HR departments, educational institutions, self-employed people, and companies from various domains. Here are some of their comments regarding our work together
Business Owner
Larry gave a workshop for me which was top class. Hugely informative and helpful in practical ways on the topic of mental skills and peak performance. So good I asked him to run it twice!
Sports Coaching Officer
Business Owner
About Your Tutor
MSc. Org. Psych., BA (hons) Psych., M.Ps.S.I., M.A.C., R.Q.T.U. (TUOA, TUOP)
I'm an Organisational Psychologist, lecturer in HR and Organisational Psychology, and I am a registered Psychometric Test User with the BPS. I work with individuals and organisations on mental skill development, leadership, organisational culture, performance, and well-being. My background extends to 25 years of business ownership in construction and services in Ireland.
Mental Skills
This course comprises nine modules, along with an introduction and a conclusion. Each module includes video lessons and supporting materials such as PDFs, a slide deck and a quiz to test your knowledge. Modules are released every three days.
Welcome to this introduction to Essential Mental Skills
Three lessons on the role of mindset, or attitude, in the development of mental skills
The role of motivation in the development of mental skills
Lessons on the mental skill of values based goal-setting using a modified version of the SMART model
Understanding and working effectively with others is a valuable skill. Learn about it here.
How you think and talk to yourself from moment to moment has a significant impact on your performance. Learn why in the following three lessons.
Closely tied to the inner conversation, the movie reel you run in your head influences your behaviour. Learn why in the next three lessons
Managing anxiety is key to mental skill development. It is linked to how we mentally prepare, so a good follow-on from the last section
Developing the skills of understanding our own and others' emotional reaction to events and conditions is critical for effective decision making
Without focus and undivided attention, how can we expect to achieve the highest standards? In these lessons, I discuss how to cultivate focus and attention.
In this section, we summarise the course, provide a daily practice you can use to develop the mental skills you need to succeed
Piece of mind
Get a full refund if the course is not to your satisfaction
I appreciate that the content may not be suitable for everyone, and your expectations may not always be met. So, I'll will guarantee you a full refund with no questions asked. Just let me know by email within seven days and I'll organise it.
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