Coaching Blogs

All the coaching blogs published on the challenging coaching web site are listed here in alphabetical order. Thank you to the guest authors of coaching blogs. If you would like to write a coaching blog related to the themes in the book ‘Challenging Coaching’ please get in touch via our contact form.

You will find 212 posts in the category news and muse on this blog.

Jump to 2, 3, 5, 8, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Z

2 (1)

• 2 + 2 = 5 : Learning from our Mistakes

3 (1)

• 360 degree feedback, do we rely too much on artificial openness?

5 (1)

• 5 Facts All Leaders Need to Know About Trust

8 (1)

• 8 words to avoid when giving feedback (Part 2)

A (14)

• A Christmas Carol : Executive Coaching Tips from Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities: Listening to the System
• A time to challenge and a time to wait
• Accountability Coaching : What are your Big Rocks?
• Achieving courageous goals – Walking the talk
• Achieving Courageous Goals: How dare you be who you are?
• ACIM : Who am I to be a shining light?
• Aesop’s fables and the System
• Aggregation of Marginal Gains, Aggregation of Marginal Decay
• Alex Ferguson: The greatest leader of all time.
• Ann Frank, and the nature of humans
• Appreciative Inquiry and Challenging Coaching
• Asking permission – is not so simple, consider the power dynamics.
• Awareness was the key to unlock this change. “What enabled the change?” I asked, “Awareness” he said.

B (9)

• “Being in my head is a scary place” the power of reflection
• Balancing support and challenge in coaching
• Banks, Accountability and Courage
• Bateson’s Logical Levels: A powerful challenging coaching tool
• Beyond the Comfort Zone to Achieve Courageous Goals
• Bob Diamond & The Writing on the Wall : ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin’
• Brexit and VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
• Bridging the Gap: The power of psychological distance
• Build your Wings on the Way Down

C (25)

• Can you say No to the CEO?
• Celebrating 20 Years of the Global Coaching Tribe
• Challenging Coaching Podcast April 2021, an overview of the philosophy and model of FACTS and Challenging Coaching
• Challenging Coaching Questions
• Coach Contracting: Do you suffer from coach-guilt?
• Coaches, are you getting the hard sell offering the miracle solution in these hard times?
• Coaches, be quick and slow down when entering the ZOUD
• Coaching a Perfectionist
• Coaching contracts : Do we need more coaching covenants?
• Coaching Feedback : 8 Words to Avoid when Giving Feedback
• Coaching Feedback : When is it OK to give Negative Feedback?
• Coaching is even more important in a time of crisis
• Coaching ROI – How do you assess the impact of your coaching?
• Coaching to Develop Talent using the Talent Code
• Codependent no more
• Cognitive Dissonance and Coaching
• Confidence and challenge
• Conflict and challenge (The Thomas Kilmann Model)
• Contracting for conversations.
• Corporate Scandals – Time to Face the FACTS
• Courageous Goals – are we hard wired to believe? Fixed or Growth Mind-sets.
• Courageous Goals : A City Set Upon a Hill Cannot Be Hidden
• Covey’s Circle of Influence – What is the First Step to World Peace?
• Creating a sense of purpose through the triple bottom-line
• Cross-Cultural Differences in Coaching

D (8)

• Daring Greatly : Brene Brown on Truth, Vulnerability and Courage
• Daring Greatly: How to commit and re-commit to your courageous goals
• Deeper FACTS – From Dependence to Interdependence
• Development and Regression: heads or tails, which side of the coin?
• Dialogue and the art of listening
• Difficult Conversations – Mastering the Key Manoeuvres
• Disruption – destructive and creative
• Divergent Thinking and Coaching

E (5)

• Eight reasons why trust is not as simple as delivering on your promises
• Employee Engagement and Challenging Coaching
• Enhancing organisational feedback through systemic coaching
• Executive derailment and overplayed strengths: the role of coaching
• Extinction Rebellion and Coaching – bias and extremism. Is it OK to be biased if it saves the planet?

F (9)

• FACTS Coaching – On Tour
• Failure is Part of the Process
• Fear of greatness and courageous goals
• Feedback is the breakfast of champions
• Feedforward vs Feedback, Marshall Goldsmith
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni and FACTS Coaching.
• Four Leadership Lessons on Trust from the Panama Papers Leak
• Four Questions To Assess The Purpose Of Your Business
• From Task to Ask : Creating your First ‘To-Ask’ List

G (2)

• Going beyond traditional 360 feedback tools
• Google’s Zeitgeist 2013 and Us

H (11)

• ‘How much is enough?’ – The Power of Challenging Questions
• Has anyone seen my sense of perspective?
• Have Coaches Forgotten About Congruence?
• Healthy vs Unhealthy Challenges
• Heron’s Six Categories of Intervention
• Hey you, stop jumping the queue!
• Hope for the other side
• How do you protect yourself from NLP trickery?
• How does the choice of your words impact on your actions?
• How to implement a coaching culture, and why bother?
• Hungarian SPARKLE

I (7)

• “I could never do that”; how to view a threat as a challenge.
• “It’s a no brainer John”
• I’m a coach…. Get me out of here! The tension of entering the ZOUD
• ICF Global Conference and the Coaching Barbarians
• Inspirational Leadership – what it takes.
• Is coaching the new rock n roll?
• Is your leadership ‘all-in’?

J (2)

• Jimmy Savile Didn’t Fix It But We Still Can
• Joseph Campbell, the Hero of a Thousand Faces and the System.

L (9)

• Lance Armstrong, Mario Savio and the Odious Machine
• Leader as Coach or Coach as Leader ?
• Leadership Lessons from Football
• Leadership Lessons from Volkswagen: The Journey from Warrior to King
• Learning from the Olympians Challenge
• Leave your ego outside; it won’t fit through the door! Can you coach an egotist?
• Level 5 Leadership: The Four Keys to Personal Humility
• Like a compass or an arrow? Directive versus non-directive coaching (part1) – Angela Dunbar guest blog.
• Like a compass or an arrow? Part 2 – directive versus non-directive coaching

M (7)

• “My client is the person in front of me”. Is this true?
• Martin Luther King and Courageous Goals
• Maslow’s 6th Level
• McKinsey, what really matters in leadership
• Me, judgemental? Don’t be stupid, I’m a coach!
• Mental illness, the leadership taboo
• Mind the Gap : The 7 Deadly Sins of Corporate Life

N (3)

• Nancy Kline – Time to Think: The Challenge of Autonomy in Coaching
• Negative effects of coaching on coaches
• New Coaching Tool : Feedback on your Challenging Coaching Skills

O (4)

• Olympic achievement, and us!
• Olympic rower Alan Campbell and the courageous goal
• Optimism is True Moral Courage: How do you make it catchy?
• Overcoming apprehension and self-doubt

P (7)

• Perception is not Reality
• Permission to Challenge: Granted!
• Personal Chemistry in Coaching
• Preventative accountability
• Professional Women : If you ‘lean in’ do men need to ‘lean out’?
• Protecting the Inner Child
• Pure or Broad, Specialist or Generalist?

Q (1)

• Quoting from the FACTS

R (6)

• Real and safe leaders, and the two faces of pressure.
• Reflections and Learning from FACTS on Tour!
• Resilience: 12 tips for bouncing back
• Resilience: The power of stories that heal
• Risk or recklessness in goal setting
• Rules and regulations – are you a lawbreaker?

S (13)

• Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives
• Simon Sinek – Leaders Eat Last – Vistage Keynote
• Simon Sinek : Start with Why
• Sir Alex Ferguson and Executive Coaching
• Sir John Whitmore and Team Development
• Sir John Whitmore and the Coaching Alarm Clock
• SMART Goals are Comfort Zone Goals – It’s Official!
• Speaking to the Global Coaching Community
• Stephen Covey, Interdependence & the Deeper FACTS
• Support Challenge Matrix : Polishing my Loving Boots
• Surprise, fear, doubt and confusion are four things to conquer.
• Systemic Leadership : Easier Said than Done
• Systems coaching : An exciting new trend in the coaching world

T (46)

• Talent Development – Are you Boring your Staff to Tears?
• Team Sky: Leadership lessons from Sir David Brailsford
• Tenouchi : The Art of Controlled Challenge
• The Age of Intolerance.
• The Authenticity Paradox – can we be too authentic?
• The Brains behind Challenging Coaching
• The Challenge of Being a Perfectionist
• The challenge of strengths
• The Change House: How to avoid complacency, denial and confusion.
• The Coach’s Guide to Sticking with Being Stuck
• The Elephant in the Room – Cathartic Release of Tension.
• The FACTS of positive psychology
• The GROW model and FACTS coaching
• The Hero’s Journey, the Helper and Coaching
• The Inner Game of … Connect 4
• The Joy of Peer Group Coaching
• The King’s Speech : Rupture & Repair in Coaching
• The Meaning of Courage
• The Most Successful Failure Ever?
• The Neuroscience of Challenging Coaching
• The Next Lamp Post – what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. My greatest challenge, a story of recovery and resilience
• The NLP Fast Phobia Cure Scares Me
• The Original Masterpiece: How to restore the hidden potential in others
• The Player Coach – Forbes article
• The Power of Ambiguity
• The Power of the Group – Your Mind is a Terrible Neighbourhood to Wander into Alone
• The pressure in the system – abusive supervisors
• The Red Pill: How much truth can a leader take?
• The Rescuer Syndrome and Coaches
• The Ridler Report : 7 Trends in Executive Coaching
• The rise and rise of the toxic culture.
• The Road to Audacity
• The Support / Challenge Matrix: Coaching Moments of Choice
• The Surprising Truth about Goal-Setting : Start with the End in Mind
• The Tension Builds (Yerkes Dodson Law)
• The Vulnerability of Being a Novice
• The Winning Red Habit
• The Yerkes-Dodson Curve: Performance under pressure
• Thinking Fast & Slow: How to make smarter decisions
• Thomas Leonard had The Edge – Have you got The Edge?
• Three simple and essential questions about how to win trust
• Tips for Exercising your Gratitude Muscle this Xmas
• Transpersonal Goals and John Whitmore
• Triggering Intuition through Level III Listening
• Trust has Become the Agenda
• Turn the Ship Around – David Marquet : From Commander to Coach

V (3)

• Values Coaching : How do you know what your values are?
• Visualization – the power of imagery
• VUCA and Leadership

W (16)

• Walt Disney Dreams – Curiosity, Confidence, Courage & Constancy
• WBECS and the Cosy Club
• We’re all ‘A’ grade. Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander’s secret for unlocking greatness
• What are the Hidden Dangers of Playing it Safe?
• What doesn’t kill us : Stephen Joseph & Post Traumatic Growth
• What is the future of coaching?
• What is your courageous goal boot camp?
• What is your courageous goal for the new year?
• When Cultures Collide – The Reprise of Traditional Coaching
• Who are you? : Repeated Questions and the Soft Challenge
• Who sees the change after leadership coaching – not me!
• Who Taught you Jesus was a Big Softie?
• Who wants to be the Accountability Killjoy?
• Why Coaches Should Not Ask The ‘Why’ Question?
• Why kindness is both essential and irrelevant to modern leadership?
• Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Facts of Manipulation

Z (1)

• ZOUD – Do you care enough to enter the zone of uncomfortable debate?