Stanford University
Psychology for High Performance
Unleash your untapped potential by cultivating practical tools that enhance both personal and professional performance.
Start date
03 February 2025
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Course duration
2 weeks
Language
English
Access resources from start date
Effort
4–6 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
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Duration: 2 weeks
Everyone desires to reach their maximum potential, but how can one maintain success over an extended period? The key to unlocking peak performance potential is often found within your approach to self-care.
The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) provides an online micro course, Psychology for High Performance, that equips you with practical tools to maximize your potential in both your personal and professional life. You'll explore fundamental psychological principles and actionable strategies that will help you optimize your performance while gaining self-awareness. The course provides theoretical knowledge and reflective and practical methods to apply it. You'll learn about the significance of exercise, nutrition, and sleep on physical and psychological well-being and how to create lasting and effective habits.
Is this course for you?
If you value personal well-being and want to enhance your personal and professional growth, then this high performance course is perfect for you. It caters to a wide range of working professionals across various industries and roles, providing theoretical and practical tools to better understand your actions, thoughts, and behaviors. Whether you work in healthcare, sports, wellness, or in an office setting as a technical specialist, aspiring manager, or executive, you can benefit greatly from the knowledge and skills this micro course offers.
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Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit designation
American Medical Association (AMA)
The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
View the full accreditation information here from Stanford Medicine.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 2 weeks
Everyone desires to reach their maximum potential, but how can one maintain success over an extended period? The key to unlocking peak performance potential is often found within your approach to self-care.
The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) provides an online micro course, Psychology for High Performance, that equips you with practical tools to maximize your potential in both your personal and professional life. You'll explore fundamental psychological principles and actionable strategies that will help you optimize your performance while gaining self-awareness. The course provides theoretical knowledge and reflective and practical methods to apply it. You'll learn about the significance of exercise, nutrition, and sleep on physical and psychological well-being and how to create lasting and effective habits.
Is this course for you?
If you value personal well-being and want to enhance your personal and professional growth, then this high performance course is perfect for you. It caters to a wide range of working professionals across various industries and roles, providing theoretical and practical tools to better understand your actions, thoughts, and behaviors. Whether you work in healthcare, sports, wellness, or in an office setting as a technical specialist, aspiring manager, or executive, you can benefit greatly from the knowledge and skills this micro course offers.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit designation
American Medical Association (AMA)
The Stanford University School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
View the full accreditation information here from Stanford Medicine.
How is this course different?
What will set you apart
Practical strategies for redefining success and failure from a binary approach to a process-oriented one.
Skills that promote cognitive flexibility and maximize potential by helping you navigate conflicting and overwhelming thoughts.
Knowledge of how to enhance performance by modifying your lifestyle around exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
A better understanding of how to build and maintain new habits that improve performance. The curriculum
Module 1 - Mindset: Cultivating skills to enhance performance
Develop skills that promote cognitive flexibility and maximize potential.
- Learn how redefining success allows you to collect valuable data from uncomfortable experiences
- Explore two practical strategies that improve performance by helping you navigate conflicting and overwhelming thoughts
- Look behind the scenes at the lives of elite performers, as told by a world-renowned sports psychologist
Module 2 - Lifestyle modifications for peak performance
Learn how to improve performance by modifying your lifestyle.
- Explore how optimizing exercise, nutrition, and sleep can lead to enhanced performance
- Discover how building new habits relies on setting goals that are specific, achievable, and trackable
Academic Director
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Dr. Francesco Nandkumar Dandekar
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Your skills recognized
Validate your expertise online with an official digital badge from the Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE).
In order to be issued with a digital badge, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the two-week online micro course.
How you'll learn
This online course is broken up into a manageable units designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse activities:
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Work through your downloadable and online instructional material
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Interact with your peers and learning facilitators through class-wide forums and reviewed small group discussions
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Enjoy a wide range of interactive content including live sessions, round-up videos, podcasts, quizzes, and more
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Receive a tool kit for practical application in your career
Apply what you learn throughout this two-week online micro course experience and develop practical tools to achieve your goals and optimize productivity.
Your success team
Online education provider GetSmarter offers a personalized approach to online learning that ensures you’re supported every step of the way.
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Head Tutor
A subject matter expert who’ll guide you through content-related challenges.
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Global success team
Available 24/7 to solve your tech-related and administrative queries and concerns.
A powerful collaboration
The Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE) is collaborating with GetSmarter to create a new class of learning experience — one that is high-touch, intimate, and personalized for the working professional.
About Stanford (SCHE)
Stanford (SCHE) supports an effective and efficient approach to the training of health professionals across the globe while empowering the public through access to credible, accessible, and engaging health education. Improving upon conventional approaches to healthcare education, SCHE aims to increase the global availability of well-trained healthcare professionals, create a more informed public, and improve health outcomes in some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
About GetSmarter
GetSmarter, a 2U, Inc. brand, partners with the world's leading universities and institutions to select, design and deliver premium online courses with a data-driven focus on learning gain. Technology meets academic rigor in GetSmarter’s people-mediated model, whose interactive online format allows for self-paced learning and a greater level of learner engagement.
Operate at your full potential
Learn tools to enhance your well-being, drive productivity, and maximize potential in this two-week micro course from Stanford (SCHE).
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Payment options
You can pay online via our secure payment gateway, or make payment via electronic transfer or direct deposit. For transfers, banking details can be found on your invoice once you've completed your registration. Please get in touch with an Enrollment Adviser or contact us for more information.
Seek employer assistance
By improving your skills and industry knowledge, you'll have an influence on the success of your organization. Why wouldn't you ask your boss to help you fund your studies if it's going to have an impact on the way you do business?
Of our past students, 37 percent have received financial assistance from their employers. You can ask for help, too. Here is a guide to show you how to request financial assistance from your employer.
If you are a Learning & Development (L&D) manager, or involved in training and upskilling for an organization, you can request information regarding our corporate offering on our GetSmarter for business page.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best. You'll be presented with the course content at the beginning of each module so that you can plan your time.
You also have access to the Global success team who will support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
Discover the Online Campus
The Online Campus will be your virtual classroom for the duration of your course. Through its easy-to-use interface you'll have access to a diverse variety of course content formats including: interactive videos, module notes, practice quizzes, presentations, and additional web resources.
On the Online Campus, you'll also be able to ask questions and interact with your fellow students and teaching team through the discussion forums. If you are looking for your Online Campus login, please see the list of university partner login pages here.
