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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...
People who do not celebrate birthdays might just be cooler than you think
At the back end of 2025 I noticed that a number of people in my wider network were really making something of their birthdays, posting pictures and messages on social media. Theres nothing wrong with that but it is not something that I do. Nor do most of the people in...
Developing Parents and Their Children
How to achieve self-awareness that translates into helping young people on their journey to being resilient and positive adults. Since the pandemic, AQR International has seen a growing demand globally from parents wishing to support their children, often in...