183 Sports Coaching: How Being Compassionate Can Help Your Athletes Perform Better
Supportive coaching is shown to be effective in having a positive influence on an athlete's development, particularly when athletes are unsure of themselves, are less confident and lack mental toughne...
18 Aug 202310min
182 An Introduction to Mental Toughness and Psychological Safety #BITESIZE
Today I chat with a leading authority for Mental Toughness, Doug Strycharczyk, where I share a short bite from a conversation that we had about psychological safety and its relationship with Mental To...
11 Aug 20239min
181 How to Improve Teamwork using a 4Cs Mental Toughness Approach
"Teamwork makes the dreamwork" – John C Maxwell. This quote is the motivation behind the latest episode of Demystifying Mental Toughness, where I look to challenge your thinking by considering the 3C...
4 Aug 20239min
180 How To Work With Team Units To Improve Culture In Teams
Are team development strategies taken seriously in elite sport when viewed from a psycho-social perspective? This question was the motivation for my solo episode today where I chat about the use of...
28 Jul 20238min
179 Great Captains: 8 Mental Toughness Characteristics That Can Inspire Others
What makes a great captain in team sports? In this week's short solo episode I elaborate on this question where I focus on the 8 key sub-measures of Mental Toughness from Peter Clough's 4Cs model shar...
21 Jul 202312min
178 Helping Leaders Recognise The Benefits Of Showing Vulnerability #BITESIZE
This is a short episode where leadership is the topic that Paula Eddy Wilcox and I discuss, specifically looking at vulnerability in leaders, coaches or managers. From a mental toughness angle this l...
14 Jul 202312min
177 How to Help Young People Develop a "Can Do" Attitude
In episode #177 of the Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast, Lisa Avery, a positive psychology practitioner talks to me about how to help young people flourish using a positive psychology approach. ...
7 Jul 202336min
176 How To Help Enhance The Psychological Wellbeing Of Children In Sport #BITESIZE
In today's episode, I share a short yet very important extract from episode 122, where Professor Camilla Knight chats to me about the wellbeing of sporting children, communication between children and...
30 Jun 20238min
