mental toughness sectors
Mental toughness benefits for probation trusts
With the Ministry of Justice facing spending cuts of up to 23% by 2015, funding for probation trusts will fall in real terms, stimulating a period of sustained change and downsizing. Trusts' senior leadership teams will be required to create and implement challenging change programmes.
If you are the chief executive of a probation trust, or the chairman of a probation board, you can use mental toughness when:
- Performance improvement is required
- You need to rapidly create a change programme to implement budget cuts
- Greater accountability is required from senior leaders
- You are facing significant resource cuts whilst having to maintain service levels
- Improved delegation and decision-making skills are required
- Your staff are suffering the adverse effects of higher stress levels
- Productivity and efficiency gains are needed to offset the impact of cuts
- You need to instil a 'can-do' attitude
- Staff motivation and morale are low
- You and your senior leadership team have tough decisions to make and implement
The benefits to a probation trust of a mental toughness programme created and delivered by JHK are:
- Improved performance
- The creation of an effective change management strategy
- Reduced stress, and a reduction of the negative impact of stress
- Maintained, or increased, service delivery
- Empowered, capable, decisive and motivated managers
- Increased productivity and efficiency
- Budget savings
- Staff retention, improved morale and increased motivation
- Senior leaders who accept responsibility, take timely, effective decisions and are more accountable