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 Dr 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
Check out my interview about Challenging Coaching with James Finn, in his 'What-I' Podcast. Thanks James for the interview. If you want a quick overview of the philosophy and model of FACTS and Challenging Coaching, please click here to listen to the podcast on Buzzsprout.
Coaches, are you getting the hard sell, offering the miracle solution in these hard times? I decided to follow up on one of theses and see what would happen and what they were offering. I’ve noticed more and more social media posts offering top secrets for generating business, courses which guarantee success, or people willing to…
Beautiful blue sky, blossom on the trees, roads quiet. Pandemic, lockdown, 759 deaths yesterday in the UK. Stark reality. Out of this tragedy, good things can come, there is hope for the other side of lockdown. The pandemic has caused tragic deaths and terrible suffering, but out of this enforced lockdown change has come. On…
I’m feeling lost, scared, uncertain. I can’t visit my elderly relatives and I’m worried about them. I’ve had to close my business and I don’t know what the future will be? Will I have a job? These are some of the comments that I’ve heard recently. In a matter of a few weeks everything that…
Congruence is about being genuine, acting without front or facade. You are congruent when you are aware of your own feelings and ensure that words and actions are matched to these internal feelings. But has the origins of congruence and the importance in coaching been lost? Many theoretical underpinnings of coaching come from counselling. When…
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