MANAGING THE CONFRONTATION COACHING CONVERSATION

Confrontation— people pay to be confronted in coaching? You bet! Especially the higher ups. And especially leaders, CEOs, politicians, and people who suffer from the presence of too many “Yes People” catering to their every whim and fearful of delivering bad news. For those of you in Executive Coaching, the Confrontation Conversation is not only a critical one, but a regular one.

Yet CEOs are not the only people who need to be confronted. We all do. And we all also tend to live in contexts where people are often too nice and too fearful of creating conflict, and so truth is often not told. Or if it is, it is only when someone gets so frustrated or angry that when they tell the truth, it is discounted as just their problem, their angry words.