Mental Skills Coaching

What is Mental Skills Coaching?

Mental Skills Coaching focuses on helping pilots achieve their personal and professional goals through the cultivation of mental skills training for performance. The work focuses on exploring obstacles to change, creating and maintaining motivation for change, and creating and executing specific and targeted strategies for change. Coaching offers clients a structured plan of action. This includes “homework assignments” of various kinds that help you practice new skills and strategies outside of your sessions.

The fundamental presumption of coaching is that clients are healthy mentally and emotionally and are ready to receive directed guidance and instructions on how to make the necessary changes that will help them achieve their goals.

Some of the benefits that can be achieved from individual mental skills coaching include:

  • improved performance and productivity
  • improved learning
  • improved personal and professional relationships
  • improved quality of life for individuals
  • more time for enjoyment
  • more creativity
  • better use of people, skills, and resources
  • faster and more effective emergency response
  • greater flexibility and adaptability to change
  • increased motivation
  • greater adaptability to cultural change
  • new life skills

All LiftAffect Mental Skills Coaches have a bachelors degree or higher, received LiftAffect Mental Performance training from LiftAffect founder Matt McNeil, and have extensive experience working with professional pilots.