Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS

by Ian Day John Blakey, Ian Day

Challenging Coaching is a real-world, timely and provocative book which provides a wake-up call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching. Based on the authors' extensive experience working at board and management levels, they suggest that for far too long coaching approaches have shied away from adopting a more challenging stance - a stance that can provoke greater performance and unlock deeper potential in business leaders and their teams. The authors detail their unique FACTS coaching model, which provides a practical and pragmatic approach focusing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous goals, Tension and Systems thinking. The authors explore FACTS coaching in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues and practical exercises so that the reader will be able to successfully challenge others using respectful yet direct techniques. This is an original and thought-provoking book that dares the reader to go beyond traditional coaching and face the FACTS.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 16, 2012

Reviews

[Marcos Silveira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book on coaching - offers new perspective as well as comments in old onesq

Builds in top on GROW and other traditional coach models, and bring elements such as feedback and challenge to coaching. I liked the dimension model low/high support and low/high challenge as a model to observe the relationships we build. I am already practicing several of its elements in my coaching practices.