Oct 12, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, John Perry, Mental Toughness, Update
Examining the Mental Toughness profiles of psychology undergraduates across six continents to explore where, and if, cultural differences can be detected and identified. The Mental Toughness concept has emerged as one of the most important advances in the field of...
Oct 10, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
Attitude Attitude is a reasonable approximation to what we mean by mental toughness. Both are expressions of a mental approach to events. A 2017 survey of over 500 organisations found that the quality that employers valued more than any other factor (qualifications,...
Jul 4, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, Psychometrics
How the mental toughness concept is taking us to a new level of understanding. How have we got here? Over the past 80 years or so, we have witnessed a major shift in the approach to people and organisational development. Particularly in the value of understanding what...
Jun 27, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How important is it in assessing and developing mental toughness in people and organisations? “Making the invisible, visible” * The short answer to this question is “It is very important and its more important than most people realise”. Mental Toughness is a...
Jun 17, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
Understanding mental toughness might just be the key. Just before the pandemic struck, and in the good old days before Zoom, I was invited to speak on the relationship between mental toughness and performance to an audience of around 60 HR Directors. At one point,...
Jun 13, 2022 | Doug Strycharczyk, John Perry, Mental Toughness, Peter Clough
How the 8-factor mental toughness concept brings this into focus We are often told that “goals and goal setting are the sources of drive”. Are they? Is this really enough? Our work on the mental toughness concept has perhaps enabled us to develop a more subtle, more...
