Nov 10, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How to optimise my toolkit and elevate my practice. It is estimated that less than 20% of coaches and mentors use psychometric measures in their work. This is surprising, given what psychometric measures are, how relevant they are for understanding self and others,...
Nov 3, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
One of the very best measures available to coaches and mentors to support their work is the MTQPlus, a comprehensive personality assessment, and its shorter derivative, the MTQ4Cs. As a foundational coaching tool, it enables practitioners to understand deep-seated...
Oct 22, 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...
May 15, 2026 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
In 2025, in our Talking Toughness podcasts, we spoke with coaching thought-leaders, Jonathan Passmore and David Clutterbuck, about Coaching and AI, and its impact on practitioners who work in people, team and organisation development. They saw that coaching and...
Feb 13, 2026 | Case Studies, Coaching, Mental Toughness, Sports
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...
