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 19, 2026 | Mental Toughness
Do we spend too much time on burnout when fatigue management is an equally important factor in managing wellbeing and safe practice? On the 7th October, AQR International ran its monthly CPD event. The topic was fatigue management, delivered by Professor Fiona Earle,...
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...
Sep 18, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
Leadership is essentially about motiving others to give their discretionary effort, that is the extra effort they can bring to a task, and to give it willingly in such a way that they get satisfaction from doing it and it doesn’t diminish their wellbeing. In the...
