Welcome to the world of
Challenging Coaching
Going beyond traditional coaching to face the FACTS
Challenging coaching is designed for executive coaching, conference keynotes and coach development.
Challenging coaching is the joint work of John Blakey and Ian Day; we believe that executive coaching is a crucial tool for transforming leadership capability. We challenge leaders and coaches to be courageous and be more than they currently are.
Our board level clients told us they loved our challenging coaching style –
an approach inspired by our extensive work with business leaders and Olympic medallists.
Latest blogs
Coaching has grown significantly in popularity and in professionalism over the past 30 to 40 years, but has this development plateaued? The hot topics of the last few years have been supervision, neuroscience, team coaching and mindfulness, but are these just small incremental changes that have broadened coaching rather than moving it on? What is…
On 2nd July, Huffington Post published the headline, "EU Referendum: A Guide To The Most F*cked Up Week In UK Political History", well I might not agree with the wording, but the sentiment is pretty true. I don't intend to go into blame and accusations as have been seen in many articles this week, but…
In the 2015-16 English football season, there has been a real shake up as the Premiership was won by Leicester City Football Club, who at the beginning of the season were placed as 5000 to 1 outsiders. So what has created such a turn around, and what relevance does this have for non-football fans? In…
What is trust? Our academic colleagues have been debating the definition of trust for over thirty years and they still haven’t reached a final agreement. However, all definitions of trust agree that it involves these three components:- Risk – to trust someone involves making ourselves vulnerable Hope – when you take the risk of trusting…
"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again." These are the words of Anne Frank written in her wartime diary. What does this diary of a teen-age girl tell us about human nature? I enjoyed 4-days in the beautiful city of Amsterdam during a recent family holiday. With my daughter studying…
Our Coaching Book
In 2012, we published 'Challenging Coaching' which was hailed as a 'game-changing' book in the coaching world.
This book details our FACTS coaching model which is a real-world, timely and pragmatic coaching approach focussing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous Goals, Tension, and Systems Thinking.
Watch our book review, download a free chapter below, or buy your copy now from Amazon.
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