Jan 27, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners Stress and pressure is everywhere in our modern life and whilst a moderate amount is positive, helping us enhance performance, it can quickly become negative with some unpleasant and long lasting side effects on our body...
Jan 24, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching, Mental Toughness
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners Why You Should Just Take Control Of What You Can Control Feeling overwhelmed and out of control is unfortunately too common in our helter skelter world, as wave after wave of stress and pressure comes our way with seemingly...
Jan 24, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
This post was taken from TES. See original post here Independent schools know that development of resilience is not only a good selling-point but also brings greater success in hard-edged exam results, writes one head It’s official, then: children in independent...
Jan 24, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching
This post was taken from our UK partners AQR Coaching & Mentoring Imagine this scenario: One of your team has made a mistake that has jeopardised your team’s chances of winning an important piece of business that the team has been pursuing for quite some time. ...
Jan 24, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching, Mental Toughness
Orginally posted by Mental Toughness Partners here Basketball is a sport that requires its players to be mentally tough and this discipline was amply illustrated on our son’s school’s recent basketball tour to the USA. During this 3 week tour, 28 boys and 7 coaches...
Jan 24, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching, Mental Toughness, Sports
Original post from Mental Toughness Partners In the sporting world athletes reach their peak performance at different ages for different sports. For example, swimmers predominately reach their peak performance in their late teens /early twenties, tennis players mid...
Jan 20, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Fiona Clapp Education Blog In the second half of this term my school along with about 60 other independent schools will embark on a fascinating piece of research commissioned by the ISC, the aim of which is to measure whether independent schools are better able to...
Jan 18, 2017 | Education, Press Coverage
Private school children are tougher than their state educated counterparts, a study has found. New research commissioned by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) found that pupils at fee-paying schools are more controlled, committed and confident than those who went...
Jan 18, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Assessing Mental Toughness The study provided a unique opportunity to assess almost 10,000 pupils in 60 schools using the 4Cs mental toughness framework. The data emerging from what is a very significant study has been interesting, valuable and insightful. Importantly...
