Sep 4, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How can I manage my emotional responses and those of others? The second in a series of posts about the 8 factors that form the mental toughness concept. Mental toughness is a personality trait that describes our mental responses, how we think, to stressors,... 
Aug 21, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY CONFIDENCE WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR OUR MENTAL RESPONSES Confidence is the fourth of the 4 constructs of the 4Cs mental toughness concept. By confidence, we mean self-belief in our toolkit to be able to take to satisfactory conclusion tasks or... 
Aug 15, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY CHALLENGE WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR OUR MENTAL RESPONSES Challenge is the third of the 4 constructs of the 4Cs mental toughness concept. By Challenge we mean being able to deal with the current situation and the future – even though this might not... 
Aug 7, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
WHY CAN COMMITMENT IMPACT ON MY PERFORMANCE AND WELLBEING? WHAT DO I NEED TO UNDERSTAND TO DEVELOP THIS? Commitment is the second of the 4Cs – which were identified by Clough and Earle as the major components of the mental toughness concept. It is the factor... 
Jul 25, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
The 4Cs approach to developing the 4Cs of Mental Toughness A recent (March 2023) paper from Oxford University* found that, resilience and wellbeing programs in 143 UK organisations employing almost 28,000 people failed to deliver satisfactory results and that some... 
Jul 10, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
“We’re high performers here. We always deliver. So why does anyone here think we have a wellbeing problem?” Really! This is a comment we got from a senior manager in a large multinational with whom we were working as we came to the end of a diagnostic phase on a...