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...
May 26, 2025 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Psychometrics
Probably the most common response we get when speaking about the use of psychometrics is “I have my psychometric”. What they mean is they have one measure, often an ipsative measure, that they apply in every circumstance. People are complex. Each person is unique....
May 19, 2025 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Psychometrics
A few weeks ago, we were in discussion with a client about them considering using our mental toughness questionnaire – the MTQPlus – in their development programmes. The MTQPlus is a well-researched and very well-evidenced measure. The client seemed interested but...