KEY APPLICATIONS
The Navy Seals began using the
HardiSurvey after becoming concerned about the high dropout rate during
"Hell Week". The HardiSurvey helps predict applicants who are more likely
to drop out.
The HardiSurvey is used at West Point to determine leadership qualities.
There are currently conversations about using HardiTraining at West Point
to better prepare the Cadets for leadership and handling the responsibilities
of leadership.
The Army War College has used Hardiness Training in its General Staff Officer
training program.
The HardiSurvey was used, and participants tracked, before and after the
Gulf War to determine who might be more likely to suffer the affects of
stress and develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Its accuracy in this
use has been validated.
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Law enforcement officers, firefighters,
paramedics, and military personnel regularly deal with
diverse and stressful circumstances and events. Often
these events are extraordinarily stressful. The
affects of the stress presented by these daily occurances
can affect the outcome of emergency situations, critical
incident judgments, ethical decision making and the actions
of public safety personnel. The job of protecting lives
and keeping communities safe demands a high level of professional
and personal competency unlike any other industry. Some
of these demands are:
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- Carrying out job duties under the scrutiny of the
public eye.
- High physical, mental, and emotional demands with
little or no downtime (physical, mental, emotional
and behavioral fitness influences decisions and actions).
- Adapting to continuously changing circumstances
and conditions.
- Deferring personal issues and needs to meet the
demands of the job - both in the department or agency
as well as on the streets.
- Continuous pressure or desire to conform and/or
meet group needs.
- Submitting to policies which can be life affecting,
that are made by others.
- No control over level or work demands.
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This exposure to constant and
often extraordinarily stressful circumstances can wear
away at spirit, performance, morale, ethics, conduct and
health. This can lead to bitterness, apathy, withdrawal
and a host of other undesirable conditions. Public safety
workers need a high level of personal and professional
hardiness to endure and thrive in this type of work environment.
The HardiSurvey, used for years by personnel working under
these conditions, shows that public safety workers high
in hardiness perform better and have greater job satisfaction
than those low in hardiness. It also shows personnel high
in hardiness have better leadership ability, higher morale,
better conduct and better health. All of these things
have a direct impact upon the department or agency, and
its relationship with the community it serves. In addition,
they impact the cost to operate a department or agency.
The HardiTraining® program strengthens public safety
workers' capacity for managing the many stresses unique
to their profession. Our program trains public safety
workers in key attitudes and resources that bolster personal
and professional hardiness. This prepares them to recognize
and to prevent attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that
undermine group and individual performance.
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Benefits of HardiTraining®
to the public safety workers include:
- Greater ability to analyze, and find innovative
solutions to personal and professional problems that
reduces strain, and restores abilities to function
well.
- Increased ability to analyze, and find innovative
solutions to personal and professional problems that
reduces strain, and restores abilities to recognize
and turn stressful events and changes into opportunities.
- Better ability to take decisive actions in managing
daily challenges in ways that reduce professional
bitterness, apathy, or alienation.
- HardiTraining® maximizes public safety workers'
professional and personal experiences in ways that
contribute positively to their goals, stamina, and
health.
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By utilizing the HardiSurvey®
for selection, promotions, and special assignments, and
by using HardiTraining® to prepare personnel for the
challenges of public safety work, agencies and departments
can expect:
- Higher levels of performance and better quality
of service.
- A hardier workforce more capable of meeting the
demands and challenges of "the job".
- Greater personal satisfaction, loyalty, and retention
thereby securing the department's investment in personnel.
- Increased leadership characteristics which promote
"pride of craft", collaborative working spirit, and
increased abilities to master workplace challenges.
- Decreased absenteeism, disability and health care
claims, which decreases operating costs.
- Public safety workers who are more skilled in giving
support to the public, coworkers, and organization.
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The Hardiness Institute,
Inc: 4199 Campus Drive, Suite 550 | Irvine, CA 92612 | Ph: 949.252.0580
| Fx: 949.252.8087
e-mail: [email protected].
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