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...
Sep 11, 2026 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
Leadership and Mental Toughness. The role of resilience and positivity in leadership effectiveness Leadership is a quality that has always been important, often misunderstood, and now, in the 21st Century, it has a renewed importance. It’s at the top of the...
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...
