Challenging Coaching

Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS

Ian Day, John Blakey

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781904838395
• eBook ISBN: 9781857889505
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Warning: This is a provocative message!
• 1 Time to face the FACTS of coaching
• 2 From support to challenge
• 3 The core principles of FACTS
• 4 FACTS—Feedback
• 5 FACTS—Accountability
• 6 FACTS—Courageous goals
• 7 FACTS—Tension
• 8 FACTS—Systems thinking
• 9 Applying the FACTS
• 10 The deeper FACTS
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the authors