Driving Synergy

Continuing its reputation for innovation, Drive & Survive has created a course for business drivers who find driving stressful in some way, perhaps to the point where it is having a measurable effect on work performance. The one-day ‘Driving Synergy’ course comprises two distinct elements: a personal resilience and stress management seminar, followed by a practical, on-road, defensive driver coaching session.

The group seminar element is ground-breaking, inasmuch as it is a distilled version of the renowned, one day ‘HeartMath’ coaching technique which has been used to dramatically improve the performance of stressed executives working for some of the biggest global brands. 

‘HeartMath’ employs relatively recently developed, medically-proven techniques to allow the participants to regulate respiration and thus optimise the crucial ‘heart rate variability’ factor which dictates our behaviour in potentially threatening driving situations.  This is not just a form of meditation and the effects of the technique are both measurable and visible.

Under stressful situations, a driver will usually react vigorously, both physically and emotionally, resulting in the body being flooded with the potentially harmful Cortisol hormone.  If you add the adrenaline which naturally occurs as well, you have a powerful cocktail of hormones, which effectively switches off our higher level or ‘smart’ brain, which is the one we count on when the situation gets critical. The specific techniques covered in this session will completely change each participant’s approach to all types of high stress situations.   

Once the morning ‘HeartMath’ seminar is completed, the group will spend the rest of the day in a two participant to one trainer on-road Drive & Survive Training session, in which much emphasis will be placed on the cognitive functions required to observe and assess risk in a number of different road scenarios, along with the accompanying traits of anticipation and concentration.

The aim is to get drivers to increase their awareness of the risk they are routinely exposed to and, building on the ideas discussed in the ‘HeartMath’ seminar, help them to maintain the correct emotional state to make sound, safe judgements whilst they are in challenging road situations.

The combination of the two elements of the course should produce calm, rational drivers exhibiting clarity of mind, who will inevitably make good decisions and stay safe thereafter. Drivers will also arrive at their business destination in a fit state to carry out their work duties positively and effectively.  An added bonus is that the techniques learned in the ‘HeartMath’ element of this course can apply in the wider business world over the long term.  Participants will have more focus, better task prioritisation and improved mental acuity, which together will manifest themselves in terms of enhanced business performance, irrespective of the employment sector.

No special equipment, premises or arrangements are required to deliver the ‘Driving Synergy’ course.  We come to you and the practical training is carried out in employees’ own vehicles as usual. All we require is a room big enough to accommodate the number of people on the course and the seminar moderator.

For further details on this course, please contact Sales Administration on 01295 724287 or email enquiries@drivesurvive.co.uk