Foreword by Rob and Kathy Bocchino Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I. Promise Chapter 1. The Meaning of Transformational Leadership Coaching A Story of Transformational Leadership Transformational Leadership Coaching The Transformational Leader From Transformational Leadership to Transformed Organizations What if Your Leadership Coaching Initiative Played a Bigger Game? Chapter 2. Coach More, Lead More Coaching Is Leadership Opportunities for Leaders to Coach To Coach or Not to Coach Portals to Coaching Answering the Call On to Part II! Part II. Projects Chapter 3. The Greater Good: What Leaders Want You to Coach Them On Projects The Greater Good Helping Leaders Select Coaching Projects What Could You Be Coached On? Additional Tools Related to This Chapter Chapter 4. The First 100 Days What's So Big About the First 100 Days? The First 100-Day Plan Defined Descriptions of the Actions in Each Phase Final Guidelines Part III. Practice Chapter 5. The Flywheel System Flywheel Leadership Coaching Components Additional Tools Related to This Chapter Chapter 6. The Powerful Coaching Conversation: An Overview A Process Engineered for Inspiration How the Powerful Coaching Conversation Process Works Step 1. Greetings and Accountability Step 2. Connect to the Work and Focus This Coaching Session Step 3. Coachee Tells the Story Step 4. Question Assumptions and Deepen Understanding Step 5. Interact Through Thought Leadership Questions (TLQs) Step 6 and Step 7. Generative Reflection and Brainstorming Step 8. Wisdom and Commitment to Action Drawing the Conversation to Closure "You're Going to Be Great" A Series of Powerful Conversations Leading to Wisdom and Transformational Change It Ain't Always Pretty, But You're Going to Be Great Additional Tools Related to This Chapter Chapter 7. Listen, Just Listen What Listening Means to Coaching What Stops Coaches From Listening? What Coaches "Do" When They Listen Listening and Leaders Who Coach Return to Listening Listening Is the Gatekeeper to Great Coaching Chapter 8. Question Assumptions and Deepen Understanding Transition From Step 3 to Step 4 Communication Skills Used by Coaches in Step 4 The Ladder of Inference The Coaching Conversation in Step 4 Step 4 Pitfalls Readiness for Step 5 Chapter 9. Thought Leadership Questions Inspired Thought A Coaching Scenario: Meet "Caroline" Adding Step 5 to the Powerful Coaching Conversation The Magic of Thought Leadership Questions: How the Mind Works Using Thought Leadership Questions for Good Deep Wells of Knowledge Chapter 10. The Jaunty Walk The Jaunty Walk A Coaching Scenario: Meet "Adam" Part IV. Progress Chapter 11. Monitoring the Results of Leadership Coaching Is Leadership Coaching Operating as Expected? Do Leaders With Coaches Create Results for the Organization? Here Comes the Tricky Part Chapter 12. Start a Coaching Movement Remember When We "Did" Coaching? Organizational Considerations That Support Leadership Coaching Final Words Appendix: Thought Leadership Questions References Index
Leadership coaching that moves beyond the status quo How do leaders who coach their peers and colleagues develop the next generation of leaders? What does it mean to serve as a "thought partner" for colleagues at the helm of meaningful change? How do powerful coaching conversations challenge assumptions and catalyze transformative innovation? How does leadership coaching lift people and programs beyond the demands of the status quo? Named for a physics term that refers to sustainable energy in the absence of its source, Flywheel offers a comprehensive view of leadership coaching- including tools, coaching dialogues, exercises, and protocols. In Flywheel, Elle Allison-Napolitano draws on her extensive experience as a trainer of leaders who coach and as a practicing leadership coach, to fill a long standing gap in leadership coaching: to support leaders at the helm of the most important work in your organization. Flywheel offers these outcomes: Emerging leaders through meaningful work Deep implementation of your best initiatives Better interactions and relationships through coaching An engaged and committed workforce Increased ownership and accountability Innovative and inspired thinking Make leadership coaching a movement in your organization and develop leaders capable of meaningful, sustainable change. "In a world of ever mounting educational challenges, Dr. Allison's work brings refreshing clarity in understanding transformational leadership coaching. Transformational coaching is the most compelling model in the coaching literature and will sustain the meaningful change needed to improve instruction and provide world-class educational opportunities for students." -Debbie Lee, Executive Director of K-12 Curriculum and Instruction Waterloo Community Schools, IA
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