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Coaching and AI – A threat, an opportunity, or both
In 2025, in our Talking Toughness podcasts, we spoke with coaching thought-leaders, Jonathan Passmore and David Clutterbuck, about Coaching and AI, and its impact on practitioners who work in people, team and organisation development. They saw that coaching and...
Your Star Employee is Now Underperforming
Get rid and replace or restore your underperforming employee? The mental toughness concept might just guide you to the best solution for everyone. It can be anyone who was once doing a good job and is now struggling. The cost of recruiting a replacement is fraught...
Optimising Team Working
Optimising Team Working - You need to understand it first. Mental Toughness really helps. Optimising Team Working is important. Arguably, it is the core challenge for leadership. As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic puts it: “can you convince people to collaborate effectively...
A Systemic Approach to Building a Thriving Culture
HOW TO BUILD AN ORGANISATION WHERE EVERYONE THRIVES THE MENTAL TOUGHNESS CONCEPT CAN BE THE KEY TO A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO ENABLE ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR PEOPLE THRIVE. There are several reasons why culture has been overlooked in individual and organisational...
Case Study – FC Utrecht Women
Working on Mental Toughness in the Dutch football Premier League: Three years of building at FC Utrecht Women The Centre for Mental Toughness NL has been involved in a challenging project in the Netherlands for three years: a new women's team in the Premier League for...
LEARNING TO MANAGE ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
How self-awareness about mental toughness can make that difference. In adolescence, X was a promising young athlete. Sufficiently good for her coaches to believe that she could become an elite athlete in time. She also aspired to do well. However, over-ambitious...