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...
Jul 5, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness, Social/Third Sector
An option for developing interventions that protect mental health workers. A new study (May 2023) carried out by researchers at Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust has shed light on a major issue for mental health...
Jul 3, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
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...
Jun 26, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Franklin D Roosevelt A common misconception is that mental toughness means that you become fearless, treating setbacks and obstacles with disdain. They just bounce off you. That is simply not the case. As the research in...
Jun 19, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
The Dunning-Kruger effect is generally described as type of cognitive bias in which people overestimate their capabilities and can imagine they are smarter than they really are. Essentially, this suggests that low ability people do not possess the skills needed to...
