Flash back to your previous successes A lack of confidence in high-pressure situations is common to many of us, so...
Pressure Solutions Articles
IHHP has conducted extensive research and published a New York Times and Amazon bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure – The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most. Learn strategies to build the foundational skill of Emotional Intelligence to perform your best when it matters most.
Pressure Solution #6 – Recognize That You Are Worthy
Do you recall a pressure moment in which you didn’t do as well as you hoped? That was you in the past. Today is a new...
Pressure Solution #5 – Anticipate, Anticipate, Anticipate
The What If Game The rules are simple. Select an upcoming high-pressure situation. Let's say it's giving an important...
Pressure Solution #4 – Focus on Your Mission
There is probably no easier pressure solution to use before and during a pressure moment than this: FOCUS ON YOUR...
Pressure Solution #3 – Downsize the Importance
This pressure solution is spurred by the well-documented fact that the more important we appraise an event to be, the...
Pressure Solution #2: Multiple Opportunities
In our previous pressure solution, Befriend the Moment, we referred to research that indicated people tend to view...
Pressure Solution #1: Befriend the Moment
Choose Pressure Do you see high-pressure situations as threatening or challenging? Do you embrace such moments, or do...
The Irony of Pressure
One of the major findings in our book, Performing Under Pressure, and one that surprises many of the people we train...
Pressure Changes Everything
Why Managing Pressure is the New Competitive Advantage at Work What do you do when you’re under pressure? How does it...