Claire writes: “Kirsty and Su spent time with John Blakey last week. He was talking about challenging coaching and saying that coaching is simply about getting from A to B. Thinking more about that I’d like to add – not just talking about how you might get from A to B!

The journey from talking to action is paved with good intent. Raising the challenge in a conversation to do it now might be to invite your colleauge to write the something in their diary. Occasionally it might be getting them to make the call they are avoiding now – in this 10 minutes – rather than talking about it for 20! And when they are talking to us about a conversation that needs to happen, often (but not every time) it is to get them to say what they are going to say. The only rules are that it needs to be a quick set up, they are not there to rehearse a script, and you are not there to be in role or act as anyone else.

• ‘I’m him – say what you’re going to say’
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• ‘And when you hear that…?’
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• It can be useful to gauge where this lies in a spectrum of challenge
  … ‘So if you were going to be 10/10 challenging what would you say…?
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• ‘And if you were going to be really passive what would you say?’…
• ‘So what are you going to say?’

Principle 7: Do It Now – Real Play”

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