Oct 14, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
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....
Oct 14, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, 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...
Oct 5, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership
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...
Sep 18, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
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...
Sep 18, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership
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...
Sep 11, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
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...