Feb 12, 2024 | Mental Toughness
Become the best version of yourself that you can be How an orchestra can teach us about nuance and customisation. In 2023 a study from Oxford University examined 143 resilience and wellbeing programmes and found they failed to deliver expected outcomes. Some even did...
Jan 29, 2024 | Psychometrics, Update
In most organisations, motivation has traditionally relied upon Extrinsic motivation. This refers to behaviour driven by external factors, such as a reward, promotion, or avoidance of punishment. This may work in the short term but rarely in the longer term. Intrinsic...
Jan 22, 2024 | Coaching, Mental Toughness, Sports
An exercise in developing young people on the cusp of adulthood. Szabolcs Hollosi is a Hungarian Coach who implemented a development programme for 10 young soccer players at an elite Sports Academy in Hungary between November 2021 and May 2022. Mostly in their late...
Jan 15, 2024 | Mental Toughness
A key aspect of mental toughness that, when added to Resilience, elevates it to a more useful concept. Naom Chomsky is one of the great thinkers of our time. He is provocative in that he makes you stop and think about things that you might take for granted or simply...
Jan 8, 2024 | Doug Strycharczyk, Update
I founded AQR International on January 1st, 1989, in the middle of a recession. In my last post of 2023, I reflected on the changes since then. Sometimes it felt as though we were in a permanent recession. Where once we were a consultancy working directly with...
Dec 18, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Update
Founded in 1989 as TCA Consultants, in January AQR International will reach 35 years of existence. Given that the average life of a UK company is around 7 years, we feel a degree of comfort from that. We must have done something right? Like any business, we have had...
