Coaching Blogs

All the coaching blogs published on the challenging coaching web site are listed here in alphabetical order (also sortable by date or author). 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.

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The Metaverse and coaching  
Divergent Thinking and Coaching
Coaches, are you getting the hard sell offering the miracle solution in these hard times?
Hope for the other side
Coaching is even more important in a time of crisis
Have Coaches Forgotten About Congruence?
Dialogue and the art of listening
Asking permission – is not so simple, consider the power dynamics.
VUCA and Leadership
Extinction Rebellion and Coaching – bias and extremism. Is it OK to be biased if it saves the planet?
The Age of Intolerance.
The Next Lamp Post – what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. My greatest challenge, a story of recovery and resilience
What is the future of coaching?
Brexit and VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
Leadership Lessons from Football
Three simple and essential questions about how to win trust
Ann Frank, and the nature of humans
Four Leadership Lessons on Trust from the Panama Papers Leak
Visualization – the power of imagery
Eight reasons why trust is not as simple as delivering on your promises
Disruption – destructive and creative
Why kindness is both essential and irrelevant to modern leadership?
How to implement a coaching culture, and why bother?
Four Questions To Assess The Purpose Of Your Business
The rise and rise of the toxic culture.
Level 5 Leadership: The Four Keys to Personal Humility
How does the choice of your words impact on your actions?
The Support / Challenge Matrix: Coaching Moments of Choice
Alex Ferguson: The greatest leader of all time.
Celebrating 20 Years of the Global Coaching Tribe
Who sees the change after leadership coaching – not me!
Leadership Lessons from Volkswagen: The Journey from Warrior to King
Like a compass or an arrow? Part 2 – directive versus non-directive coaching
Like a compass or an arrow? Directive versus non-directive coaching (part1) – Angela Dunbar guest blog.
The Inner Game of … Connect 4
The Original Masterpiece: How to restore the hidden potential in others
Overcoming apprehension and self-doubt
5 Facts All Leaders Need to Know About Trust
Mental illness, the leadership taboo
Team Sky: Leadership lessons from Sir David Brailsford
The Hero’s Journey, the Helper and Coaching
Resilience: 12 tips for bouncing back
The Rescuer Syndrome and Coaches
Resilience: The power of stories that heal
Real and safe leaders, and the two faces of pressure.
Turn the Ship Around – David Marquet : From Commander to Coach
Banks, Accountability and Courage
Has anyone seen my sense of perspective?
The Power of Ambiguity
Daring Greatly: How to commit and re-commit to your courageous goals
Hungarian SPARKLE
Thinking Fast & Slow: How to make smarter decisions
Nancy Kline – Time to Think: The Challenge of Autonomy in Coaching
Appreciative Inquiry and Challenging Coaching
Joseph Campbell, the Hero of a Thousand Faces and the System.
Bridging the Gap: The power of psychological distance
The Yerkes-Dodson Curve: Performance under pressure
The Player Coach – Forbes article
The Joy of Peer Group Coaching
The Authenticity Paradox – can we be too authentic?
Optimism is True Moral Courage: How do you make it catchy?
“It’s a no brainer John”
The Winning Red Habit
The Change House: How to avoid complacency, denial and confusion.
A Tale of Two Cities: Listening to the System
The Meaning of Courage
8 words to avoid when giving feedback (Part 2)
McKinsey, what really matters in leadership
The Red Pill: How much truth can a leader take?
Inspirational Leadership – what it takes.
Coach Contracting: Do you suffer from coach-guilt?
Maslow’s 6th Level
Bateson’s Logical Levels: A powerful challenging coaching tool
Is coaching the new rock n roll?
What is your courageous goal boot camp?
“Being in my head is a scary place” the power of reflection
I’m a coach…. Get me out of here! The tension of entering the ZOUD
Negative effects of coaching on coaches
Achieving Courageous Goals: How dare you be who you are?
Coaching a Perfectionist
The Power of the Group – Your Mind is a Terrible Neighbourhood to Wander into Alone
360 degree feedback, do we rely too much on artificial openness?
Covey’s Circle of Influence – What is the First Step to World Peace?
“I could never do that”; how to view a threat as a challenge.
‘How much is enough?’ – The Power of Challenging Questions
Awareness was the key to unlock this change. “What enabled the change?” I asked, “Awareness” he said.
The Coach’s Guide to Sticking with Being Stuck
Transpersonal Goals and John Whitmore
The Surprising Truth about Goal-Setting : Start with the End in Mind
“My client is the person in front of me”. Is this true?
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Facts of Manipulation
Hey you, stop jumping the queue!
Feedforward vs Feedback, Marshall Goldsmith
The pressure in the system – abusive supervisors
Who wants to be the Accountability Killjoy?
WBECS and the Cosy Club
Trust has Become the Agenda
Coaches, be quick and slow down when entering the ZOUD
Systemic Leadership : Easier Said than Done
Speaking to the Global Coaching Community
Cognitive Dissonance and Coaching
Creating a sense of purpose through the triple bottom-line
Coaching ROI – How do you assess the impact of your coaching?
From Task to Ask : Creating your First ‘To-Ask’ List
Rules and regulations – are you a lawbreaker?
Is your leadership ‘all-in’?
We’re all ‘A’ grade. Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander’s secret for unlocking greatness
Leader as Coach or Coach as Leader ?
Risk or recklessness in goal setting
Difficult Conversations – Mastering the Key Manoeuvres
Development and Regression: heads or tails, which side of the coin?
Mind the Gap : The 7 Deadly Sins of Corporate Life
The Challenge of Being a Perfectionist
Simon Sinek – Leaders Eat Last – Vistage Keynote
Failure is Part of the Process
Courageous Goals : A City Set Upon a Hill Cannot Be Hidden
Sir John Whitmore and Team Development
Talent Development – Are you Boring your Staff to Tears?
Google’s Zeitgeist 2013 and Us
A Christmas Carol : Executive Coaching Tips from Charles Dickens
Leave your ego outside; it won’t fit through the door! Can you coach an egotist?
Tips for Exercising your Gratitude Muscle this Xmas
Corporate Scandals – Time to Face the FACTS
Simon Sinek : Start with Why
Reflections and Learning from FACTS on Tour!
The Most Successful Failure Ever?
Contracting for conversations.
FACTS Coaching – On Tour
Surprise, fear, doubt and confusion are four things to conquer.
The Ridler Report : 7 Trends in Executive Coaching
The Brains behind Challenging Coaching
Coaching Feedback : 8 Words to Avoid when Giving Feedback
Sir Alex Ferguson and Executive Coaching
Accountability Coaching : What are your Big Rocks?
Challenging Coaching Questions
Values Coaching : How do you know what your values are?
Martin Luther King and Courageous Goals
The NLP Fast Phobia Cure Scares Me
Enhancing organisational feedback through systemic coaching
Confidence and challenge
Daring Greatly : Brene Brown on Truth, Vulnerability and Courage
Preventative accountability
Systems coaching : An exciting new trend in the coaching world
The GROW model and FACTS coaching
Professional Women : If you ‘lean in’ do men need to ‘lean out’?
The Elephant in the Room – Cathartic Release of Tension.
Coaching Feedback : When is it OK to give Negative Feedback?
Executive derailment and overplayed strengths: the role of coaching
Coaching contracts : Do we need more coaching covenants?
Courageous Goals – are we hard wired to believe? Fixed or Growth Mind-sets.
ACIM : Who am I to be a shining light?
Fear of greatness and courageous goals
The King’s Speech : Rupture & Repair in Coaching
Who are you? : Repeated Questions and the Soft Challenge
Triggering Intuition through Level III Listening
Tenouchi : The Art of Controlled Challenge
Coaching to Develop Talent using the Talent Code
The Neuroscience of Challenging Coaching
Who Taught you Jesus was a Big Softie?
New Coaching Tool : Feedback on your Challenging Coaching Skills
2 + 2 = 5 : Learning from our Mistakes
The challenge of strengths
What are the Hidden Dangers of Playing it Safe?
Aesop’s fables and the System
Build your Wings on the Way Down
Pure or Broad, Specialist or Generalist?
Support Challenge Matrix : Polishing my Loving Boots
Lance Armstrong, Mario Savio and the Odious Machine
Can you say No to the CEO?
Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives
SMART Goals are Comfort Zone Goals – It’s Official!
Quoting from the FACTS
What is your courageous goal for the new year?
Me, judgemental? Don’t be stupid, I’m a coach!
When Cultures Collide – The Reprise of Traditional Coaching
Employee Engagement and Challenging Coaching
Thomas Leonard had The Edge – Have you got The Edge?
Deeper FACTS – From Dependence to Interdependence
What doesn’t kill us : Stephen Joseph & Post Traumatic Growth
ZOUD – Do you care enough to enter the zone of uncomfortable debate?
Aggregation of Marginal Gains, Aggregation of Marginal Decay
Jimmy Savile Didn’t Fix It But We Still Can
ICF Global Conference and the Coaching Barbarians
Stephen Covey, Interdependence & the Deeper FACTS
The Vulnerability of Being a Novice
How do you protect yourself from NLP trickery?
Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni and FACTS Coaching.
Protecting the Inner Child
Beyond the Comfort Zone to Achieve Courageous Goals
Going beyond traditional 360 feedback tools
Olympic achievement, and us!
Olympic rower Alan Campbell and the courageous goal
The Road to Audacity
Heron’s Six Categories of Intervention
Conflict and challenge (The Thomas Kilmann Model)
Bob Diamond & The Writing on the Wall : ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin’
Cross-Cultural Differences in Coaching
Feedback is the breakfast of champions
Perception is not Reality
Sir John Whitmore and the Coaching Alarm Clock
Learning from the Olympians Challenge
Personal Chemistry in Coaching
A time to challenge and a time to wait
The FACTS of positive psychology
Codependent no more
Permission to Challenge: Granted!
Walt Disney Dreams – Curiosity, Confidence, Courage & Constancy
Balancing support and challenge in coaching
Healthy vs Unhealthy Challenges
The Tension Builds (Yerkes Dodson Law)
Achieving courageous goals – Walking the talk
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