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How Mental Toughness Can Elevate Your Coaching Practice
If you are looking to elevate your coaching practice, your primary purpose is to help your clients understand what it is about their responses to events that work well or work less well for them. Most coaching relationships examine their clients’ behavioural patterns....
What is Mental Toughness?
If you are asking, "What is mental toughness?", it is a very well-evidenced personality trait which explains, in large part, how individuals respond mentally when exposed to stressors, pressure, opportunity and challenge, irrespective of the prevailing situation. It...
Leadership and Its Role in Developing Culture
How to Build an Organisation Where Everyone Thrives There are several reasons why culture has been overlooked in individual and organisational development. Firstly, many do not understand it well enough to work on it. Practitioners and leaders often focus on its...
Leadership and Motivation
Leadership is essentially about motiving others to give their discretionary effort, that is the extra effort they can bring to a task, and to give it willingly in such a way that they get satisfaction from doing it and it doesn’t diminish their wellbeing. In the...
What Does Leadership Style Mean?
What is Leadership Style – and how can I assess it? Leadership rests on three competencies (global factors) that help to optimise the relationship between a leader and their followers to produce better performance and better wellbeing. A major 2025 study (with the UK...
What is Leadership?
Leadership and Mental Toughness. The role of resilience and positivity in leadership effectiveness Leadership is a quality that has always been important, often misunderstood, and now, in the 21st Century, it has a renewed importance. It’s at the top of the...