Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS

by Ian Day, John Blakey

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.

Genres: Leadership

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2012

Reviews

[Fran Cormack · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting read

And nothing new added to the coaching literature. The book feels dated. It does provide a useful lens on the challenge required in executive coaching.