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# Challenging Coaching

**field notes for executive coaches**

 

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## Exploring the FACTS Model in Practice

This e-book brings together over fifty short posts written following the publication of ‘Challenging Coaching’. These were originally published as practitioner reflections — field notes rather than musing on theory — shaped by live coaching practice, leadership conversations, speaking engagements, wide reading, and the steady discipline of testing ideas against reality.

## Lessons from Boardroom Coaching

While the original ‘Challenging Coaching’ book presented the FACTS model as a coherent framework, this e-book reveals the thinking in motion. It captures how ideas emerged, evolved and matured through contact with real organisational systems and diverse human complexity. It reveals a practice less concerned with neat answers and more interested in what could be learnt from applying the FACTS model in practice.

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> ## Challenging Coaching is built on a simple belief: leaders grow when coaches combine genuine support with thoughtful challenge. When the relationship is strong enough to explore difficult truths, coaching moves beyond reflection and becomes transformational — helping leaders think differently, act more decisively and lead with greater confidence.

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