Potential Optimization Techniques: Sustainable Performance

What is Sustainable Performance?

Sustainable performance is a balance! It is the ability to remain effective over time while maintaining one’s physical, mental, and energetic balance.

It relies on individual successes, consistency, resilience, and the desire for continuous progress.

It involves learning to mobilize one’s resources at the right moment and also knowing how to recover to sustain them over time.

It is supported by the implementation of simple rituals that strengthen emotional stability, confidence, and energy, thus enabling consistent, regular action even under high pressure.

In this context, performance becomes a balanced and reproducible state that conserves our resources.

It thus forms a solid foundation for combining success, well-being, and fulfillment over the long term.

TOP® Solutions for Sustainable Performance

PMR (goal setting, structuring, autonomy)

Regular mental rehearsal (maintaining automatic responses)

Positive reinforcement (consolidating successes)

Mental pre-activation (mobilizing energy before action)

Psycho-physiological energizing (daily training, pre-performance ritual)

RNA (maintaining optimal activation during extended periods)

PMR (goal setting, structuring, autonomy)

PMR involves clearly defining one’s objectives, structuring one’s actions, and anchoring a positive representation of success. By projecting a favorable scenario, it conditions the brain to seek solutions and mobilize necessary resources. It also allows one to project beyond their objective to prepare for what comes next.

Used regularly, PMR becomes a true performance lever: it strengthens motivation, develops self-efficacy, and helps maintain focus on the chosen direction despite obstacles.

Regular mental rehearsal (maintaining automatic responses)

Mental rehearsal involves mentally replaying an action or situation before performing it. It helps strengthen automatic responses, refine the precision of movements, and anticipate potential obstacles.

This technique is particularly useful in sports, highly technical professions, or high-stakes communication situations. When well executed, mental rehearsal (RM) activates the same neural networks as the actual action, which improves fluidity, confidence, and effectiveness when performing the task.

Positive reinforcement (consolidating successes)

Positive Reinforcement involves reliving, step by step, an overcome difficulty, a past event that was a source of satisfaction or success, for which one invested a great deal and which seemed to be of very high stakes.

Rather than focusing solely on what is lacking, it is about valuing each step taken, even a minimal one, as a victory that contributes to the overall journey.

This habit fosters resilience and helps one bounce back better from difficulties. Positive Reinforcement is a strategy that nurtures motivation, refines behaviors, and sustains the desire to move forward. It thus becomes an essential resource for maintaining motivation.

Mental pre-activation (mobilizing energy before action)

Mental pre-activation is a short ritual that involves mentally preparing the key points of an upcoming action in a state of active vigilance. It helps mobilize one’s energy at the right moment, eliminate distractions, and focus attention on the essential aspects of the task.

It is particularly suitable before a public speaking engagement, an exam, an intervention, or a competition. Thanks to PAM, the individual fosters their ‘optimal state of functioning,’ ready to act with efficiency and precision.

Psycho-physiological energizing (daily training, pre-performance ritual)

DPP relies on breathing techniques, movements, internal dialogue, and mental representation that boost physical and mental energy. It is ideal for combating fatigue, regaining vitality, and boosting one’s effectiveness during a busy day.

In practice, it acts as a quick recharge: a few minutes are enough to regain vigor, motivation, and mental clarity.

It is highly complementary to classic warm-ups, whether individual or collective.

RNA (maintaining optimal activation during extended periods)

Regulation of Activation Level (RNA) is a technique that allows one to maintain or very quickly return to the ideal zone for performing.

It allows for the regulation of energetic and cognitive expenditure throughout an activity. It helps manage stress and emotion, thereby nurturing motivation.

Who are
Potential Optimization Techniques for?

Developed within the armed forces, Potential Optimization Techniques (TOP®) are now being disseminated in the civilian world. They are for everyone, whether individuals (children, managers, employees, etc.) or professionals (healthcare workers, athletes, HR, educators, etc.). TOP® constitute a customizable toolkit, containing pedagogical techniques that can be used autonomously and automatically, enabling adaptation to contextual constraints and maximizing one’s resources in all situations.

Individuals

Initial TOP® Training

Participants will be able to integrate the TOP® method into their daily, professional, and personal lives, facilitate the expression of their potential, and adapt to new, complex, or stressful situations.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites are required to access the initial TOP training.

TOP® Practitioner Training

Participants will be able to integrate the TOP® method into their practice, provide individual or collective support, and potentially organize and lead introductory TOP® training sessions.

Prerequisites: Must have fully completed the Initial FI TOP Training within two years prior to the start of the TOP Practitioner Training.

Applied Pedagogy for TOP®

Upon completion of the training, participants will master group facilitation techniques, identify postures that promote active engagement, and design impactful educational materials and activities.

Prerequisites: Must be a TOP practitioner or in the process of becoming one.

TOP® Supervision

Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to competently continue their TOP® activities through reflection on their practices, skill development, and constructive dialogue with a supervisor.

Prerequisites: It will be necessary to have started individual supervision with the supervisor.

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