Jul 27, 2023 | Mental Toughness
WHY IS A SENSE OF CONTROL CRUCIAL FOR SUCCESS AND WELLBEING? WHY CAN IT BE CHALLENGING TO DEVELOP THIS? In 2002 the 4Cs model of Mental Toughness emerged*. This ground breaking work brought understanding to an aspect of personality that had long been known to be...
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 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why most of us are a bit of both and why that matters. Superhero stories are very popular. They can intrigue all of us. One reason is that they can reflect our lives or perhaps our wishes and yet the superhero is somehow not too unlike us for us not to identify with...
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...
