Benefits to the workplace
- A tangible way to boost productivity and wellbeing.
- A sensible and ready component of your workplace wellbeing program.
- People walk away feeling calmer and more confident, with specific tactics.
- An engaging, practical way to develop composure skills, backed by science.
- Reduce the risk of stress and conflict, increase mental wellbeing and resilience.
Tactical Composure can help increase people’s..
- attention regulation
- mental responsiveness
- emotional resilience
- physical readiness
Benefits to Individuals
Self-Awareness
- Improved self-insight
- Awareness of personal triggers
- Awareness of effective composure tactics that work for you
- Awareness of personal strengths, values, connections to your bigger picture
Wellbeing
- Improved sense of wellbeing and positive emotions
- Increasing health and immune function
- Feeling more relaxed and calm
- Reduced feelings of stress, frustration and/or anxiety
- Feeling less rushed
- Feeling more patient
- Enhanced sense of empathy and compassion for oneself
- Improved ability to fall asleep and return to sleep once woken
Relationships
- Improved ability to listen
- Composed conversations, through a more responsive approach
- Becoming more approachable, through composed body language
- Improved patience with others
- Enhanced sense of empathy and compassion for others
Performance (Longer-Term Benefits)
- Improved mindfulness
- Boosts working memory and concentration
- Increased focus and information processing speed
- More cognitive flexibility
- Less emotional reactivity, more frustration tolerance
- Improved ability to maintain composure in the face of challenging situations (courage)
The usefulness of Tactical Composure
Accessible
- Free of side effects
- Free to use anywhere, anytime
- Don’t require any equipment or ongoing subscriptions
Transferable
- The tactics can work in all settings: work, home, study, relationships
- Can be practiced in different postures sitting, standing, lying down, walking etc
- Can be practiced in different environments: such as quiet or noisy, alone or with people around
Personal
- You get to choose the tactics that suit you, from a range of demonstrations
- You get to choose how and when to practice
- You can quietly build self-insight and self-awareness along the way
Purposeful
- A number of purposes, beyond just feeling good
- To proactively build stress-resilience and wellbeing
- To activate the cool, clear and constructive thinking centres of the brain
- To help manage feelings of discomfort and pain
- For preparing for difficult situations and conversations
- Used before, during and after potentially stressful situations
Relatable
- More men and women of varying ages and backgrounds are using the types of exercises that are embedded in Tactical Composure
- Everyday people can make sense of the need for composure in the face of challenging situations in life
- The language of composure is already used in our home and work life; including deep breathing; being mindful; time-out; re-focusing; handling triggers; managing stress and frustration, and so forth