Peak Performance in Talented People
Specialist doctors for talented people
In demanding and complex environments, why do more than half of finalised plans still fail to reach execution? We know that technical skills are not to blame. Talented executives, elite athletes- these are knowledgeable and skilled people.
The issue turns out to be how we manage our cognitive assets: mindset, culture, composure under pressure, internal and interpersonal awareness, motivations, and so on.
Intense pace and complexity are the norm at this level. People are not limited by intelligence or skills here, but by their ability to access them. Performance drops due to things like cognitive pressures, emotional intelligence, workplace uncertainties and quirks, historical demons, and constant firefighting: the culprits that hold multi-billion dollar success back. That's where we come in.
We help clients gain sustained and difficult-to-match advantages across the board. The secret is in our expertise in clinical-grade skills and techniques, adapted directly from medical and evidence-based practice, applied to industry. Until recently, these skills have simply not been found outside clinical fields.
Routine coaching or management advice do not work here. Time to move the game upwards.
Performance psychiatry is the respected medical field concerned with high performance. It has quietly gained attention for its ability to transform performance in the most demanding situations. Helping skilled and talented people in both professional and personal life is the very core of our business (American Board of Performance Psychiatry).
Starting in the Oxford Spinout orbital in 2010, Harris Hawkins Performance Projects has helped private clientele to surpass their cultural and cognitive limitations. From racing drivers' lap times, to CEOs who want to unlock their directors and boards. We develop and install bespoke systems to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements. Systems simple enough to pass on after we have gone. The results surprise even the most experienced players.
How does it work?
Over a number of sessions, our specialist team set out to understand the client/ team confidentially, using specialist tools if appropriate. We use this time to diagnose issues, and develop a plan of action and outcomes. These beinbg agreed, we move to cycles of delivery and review. Goals and targets are particularly adjusted to clients' proclivities, strengths, and circumstances. In between sessions, clients are given extra exercises to quicken or broaden their growth.
Master stubborn difficult challenges within yourself. Learn how to restore relationships between others. Re-calibrate your approach to risk after incidents and stressful times. Gain a whole new level of command over your and your team's abilities. Better relationships, better decisions, greater productivity- all of these and more are achieved, step by step, using methods and metrics that you can understand and pass on.
It is our business to find your best:
Better earnings? Yes.
Better safety and reliability? Sure.
Spot and nurture game-raising talent.
Find breakthroughs that transform your work.
Investment returns that keep growing:
Enhancing peoples' capabilities and decisions.
Billions are lost due to poor cohesion, cultural friction, toxic cultures and so on.
Yet only 44% of C-Suite execs are actually good at managing these things(HBR, 2021)
People urgently need a better, more reliable approach.
Real Risk =
Real Losses
Executive failure costs 200-400% of annual salary (up to 10x with opportunity cost). 60% of executives fail within 18 months without skilled coaching and performance support.
People deserve better methods.
Self-directed courses have 15% completion. Unused learning licences litter every HR department. People deserve better: a deep, immersive learning experience, and world-class support.
A Better
Answer, Now.
A performance psychiatrist guides people through individual and group-learning, and coaching skills. They pass it onwards. The result: dramatic, cathartic change. Improved conduct, relationships, reputation and profit.
How does it work?
Performance Psychiatry is about improving real-world thinking and behaviour. Methods include one-to-one sessions, group-seminars, and prescriptions of specific learning. The experience is positive, cathartic and transformative.
1:1 Strategy Sessions
Directly engage with the doctor for deeply personalised diagnosis, strategy development, and long-term coaching designed to accelerate your professional and personal growth.
- Comprehensive assessment of strengths and potentials.
- Targeted interventions for high pressure failure points.
- Custom protocols for mental clarity and emotional regulation
- Confidentiality and discretion guaranteed
Group Sessions
Week by week, your group will work singly and together, supervised by the specialist. In between briefings, Access more than 400 specialised learning modules online from our proprietary MentalWealth app. Discuss the content in special group workouts and assignments:
- On-demand flexible access to proprietary techniques and frameworks
- Multi-media learning: videos, tutorials, downloadable assignments
- Community support online and in person
- Group and private feedback
App-based solo sessions
Total flexibility and 24/7 accessibility, suitable especially for people who prefer to learn alone or as a cost-effective way to help entire organisations gain key skills.
- App-based therapy and learning topics designed by doctors in special format: much more effective than using non-specialist apps.
- As effective as seeing a counsellor 1:1
- Private, discreet, self-directed
- Whole organisations can access the entire suite, at no additional or metered cost.
- Wide range of topics: genuine techniques to improve performance, polish skills, or overcome common issues like anxiety and stress- the choice is open.
Drop-in sessions
Highly popular. Unlocks a huge amount of productivity and satisfaction, even in 1 or 2 sessions. Open to anyone in your organisation. Book in using a simple link.
- Free, strictly confidential sessions with a performance doctor, to discuss or debrief any issue, urgent, work, personal, any.
- Especially good for retaining those reserved but talented people who would be at risk of leaving otherwise.
- Accessible with no conditions or forms, more immediate and comfortable than counsellors, EAPs or GPs.
- More attuned to working people; advice and techniques relevant to them, free from jargon or medicalisation.
FOUNDATIONAL MASTERY
Get the Book: Exceptional
by Dr TK Harris, Program Director, Consultant Performance Psychiatrist, Harris Hawkins Oxford.
This book is the perfect combination to the art and psychology of high performance, soft skills and overall high functioning, made accessible to the intelligent user.
Give yourself a genuine head start on the journey to contentment, achievement and fulfilment-the Harvard-coined trinity of Mental Wealth.