Nice is Not Enough – Valuing the Art of Challenge in the Coaching Conversation

Recommended for
Practicing coaches wishing to reflect on the role of challenge in their work with clients.

Course overview
• Although most coaches would nod vigorously when presented with the concept of both support and challenge being required for effective coaching the actual practice of many coaches has a strong bias towards the supporting role and away from that of challenging their clients
• The under use of challenge presents a lost opportunity to both coach and coachee in terms of development

Course Content
This two day workshop will allow participants to explore their own relationship to challenge and how they use it or avoid it with their clients. The two days will be highly experiential.

Course benefits
By the end of the course you will have:
• An understanding of the interrelated nature of support and challenge in effective coaching
• A heightened awareness of your own motivations in using and avoiding challenge
• A sense of how personal values around tolerance can shape the use of challenge in coaching conversations
• Experienced feedback on your use of challenge
• Experienced being fully in the ‘here and now’ and how that impacts on how we challenge
• Knowledge of different stances that can be taken from provocative to evocative
• Made sense of how your current approach to using conflict has helped or hindered your clients and their own development
• A clear plan of what you want to do differently in their coaching sessions and issues to explore in supervision