Developing Mental Toughness: Improving Performance Wellbeing and Positive Behaviour in Others - Brossura

Clough, Peter; Strycharczyk, Doug

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749463775 ISBN 13: 9780749463779

Casa editrice: Kogan Page Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Mental toughness is measured by how effectively individuals respond to stress, pressure and challenge.Developing Mental Toughness clearly and effectively explains the concept of mental toughness and traces its development from sports psychology into organizational development, health and education.

This book covers the key skills and techniques required to recognize, use and develop mental toughness in others including evaluation, ROI and improving attention spans. The authors consider mental toughness in relation to education, working in teams and career planning, and they discuss the four core pillars of mental toughness:

-Challenge: seeing challenge as an opportunity
-Confidence: having high levels of self-belief
-Commitment: being able to stick to tasks
-Control: believing that people control their own destiny

Written for coaches looking to improve the performance of individuals and teams, Developing Mental Toughness contains practical guidance on techniques that will provide skills for responding to and harnessing the effects of stress and pressure.

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Recensione:

"If there were any doubt about the importance of mental toughness and its effect on performance, this book dispels them thoroughly and convincingly. Like many common sense ideas, mental toughness is something that seems instinctively to be sound, but proving it as a real phenomenon and demonstrating that it can be measured and improved is far more demanding, making the work that Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk, and their colleagues and collaborators have done, enormously significant. The range of contexts in which mental toughness can be used is illustrated by the many case studies that are described here, but its value in developing leadership and management effectiveness is the area in which it has particular value. Practising leaders and managers, especially those currently being developed, will benefit from diagnosis of their mental toughness, and from learning how they can use appropriate strategies to enhance their capability." (Peter Cheese, CEO for CIPD, and board member (and previously Chair) of ILM)

"I have worked with the authors for the past 5 years and have seen at first-hand what difference understanding Mental Toughness can make in developing a truly high performing organisation. This is a timely and valuable addition to the reading list for anyone involved in people management or people development particularly in times of change and challenge." (Neil Scales is the Chief Executive Officer of TransLink, responsible for leadership of the public transport network across South East Queensland. In this role Neil is accountable for an annual budget of more than $1.5 billion and partnerships with TransLink's 19 service delivery partners)

"Mental Toughness has emerged as an important concept which can be used to help individuals understand their own capacity, strengths and weakness and helps coaches, managers and leaders understand the problems individuals and organisations may face when dealing with change. This timely book is very welcome - it describes in a very practical way an idea which appears to have almost unlimited application" (David Eva, North West England Regional Manager of unionlearn and Chairman of CWP)

Descrizione del libro:

Demonstrates through a range of case studies the variety of contexts in which mental toughness can be applied to build leadership and management capability

Defines mental toughness clearly and scientifically and provides the MTQ48 model to enable individuals to develop this vital trait to improve their ability to cope with stress, daily pressures and challenges

Full of practical guidance to improve your ability to cope with stress

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• Editore: Kogan Page Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749463775
• ISBN 13: 9780749463779
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 292