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Is Mental Toughness a factor in Managerial Level?
Are Mentally Tough individuals more likely to be promoted? One formal piece of peer-reviewed research is useful here*. One of the things that Professor Peter Clough and a colleague Dr David Marchant examined was the relationship between age (and managerial level)...
Why Mental Toughness and not Mental Strength?
These two phrases are often used interchangeably – especially in the press but also by people development professionals. However, we, at AQR international, tend to be careful about how we describe Mental Toughness for some important reasons. Firstly, the opposite of...
Mental Toughness and Emotional Intelligence
Is there a relationship between these two ideas is a frequently asked question. It's a good question and, like all the best questions, it has a potentially complex answer. At its simplest EI describes the extent to which you are sensitive to the emotions and feelings...
Mental Toughness and Fatigue
How does my mental approach to events impact my Fatigue Often raised as an issue in the workplace and often associated with workload or pressure, tiredness or fatigue is one of the most common complaints that Doctors come across in surgeries. According to the Royal...
Mental Toughness and the Sexes
A focus on women’s development Mental Toughness is a personality trait that describes how individuals respond mentally to stressors, pressures, opportunity and challenge, irrespective of circumstances. It is a spectrum with mental toughness at one end and mental...
Team Working, the TWOI and Mental Toughness
Putting positivity and resilience back into teams and team working. In my last post, I reflected on the resurgence of interest in team working at the current time. As the pandemic has worn on, we see established teams being disrupted and organisations re-organising in...