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How to Develop Mental Toughness

Skip Prichard

What is mental toughness and how can leaders develop it? You can train your brain to develop mental toughness just like you can train your body to become stronger. Relentless Solution Focus is a process I developed that is a concrete method of training mental toughness. Expectancy theory states “that which you focus on expands.”

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Path-goal Theory

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Path-goal theory is half leadership, half motivational theory. It was developed to explain how leaders motivate their followers toward a determined end.

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Extrinsic Vs Intrinsic Motivation at Work

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More than 50 years ago, the psychologist Victor Vroom developed what he called expectancy theory to explain how extrinsic motivation works and to diagnose whether or not your plan is working properly. But not every extrinsic motivation scheme, not every incentive compensation plan that we draw up properly motivates people.

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Extrinsic Vs Intrinsic Motivation at Work

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More than 50 years ago, the psychologist Victor Vroom developed what he called expectancy theory to explain how extrinsic motivation works and to diagnose whether or not your plan is working properly. But not every extrinsic motivation scheme, not every incentive compensation plan that we draw up properly motivates people.

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

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This theory was a hot topic in the mid-1970s and takes its roots in the larger social exchange theory, a social psychological perspective that explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated exchanges between parties. PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. IMPLICIT LEADERSHIP THEORIES. Evans and Robert J.