Be a CHANGEMASTER
12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change
Karla Reiss
- The Change Place
Purchase
eBook
ISBN:
9781452283678
Available from
January 0001
Paperback
ISBN:
9781412997454
Available from
January 0001
Description
How to use coaching strategies to lead change in any organization
Be a CHANGEMASTER is a practical guide for school and district leaders that provides 12 strategies for overcoming resistance to change. Unlike more theoretical books, this text shows how to adopt a coaching style of leadership as a systemic change strategy.
Numerous examples demonstrate how the strategies used in this book have led to transformational change. These success stories are drawn from the work of professionally certified coaches. Components include
- Challenging assumptions to prevent them from becoming reality
- Developing a higher purpose to foster happiness and ensure a positive legacy
- Confronting negativity by reframing and cultivating optimism
- Gathering a group to aggregate energy, creativity, and encouragement
- Using imagery and visualization techniques to improve performance
- Focusing on the future to overcome the errors of the past and challenges of the present
Coaching is the proven change process, and leaders everywhere need to master the skills and strategies coaches use to transform their organizations efficiently and effectively. This book helps turn executives, managers, and team leaders into motivators and their organizations into winners.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
- 1. Challenge Assumptions
- Challenge Those Assumptions
- How Assumptions Hold Us Back
- Assumptions Become Reality
- Thinking for Success
- Change Your Thoughts at Any Time
- How to Challenge and Banish Assumptions
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 2. Have a Higher Purpose
- Why Purpose and Happiness Matter
- What Is Your Mission?
- It's Not About the Soap
- What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?
- Finding Meaning in Work and Life
- Leading Yourself and Others to Discover Their Higher Purpose
- Finding Joy
- Your Life's Compass: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- A Word About Courage
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 3. Awareness of Limiting Thoughts
- What Are Limiting Thoughts?
- Managing Limiting Thoughts and Beliefs
- The Power of Choice
- How to Change Limiting Thoughts to Expanding Thoughts
- A Formula for Freedom
- Direct Your Brain to Change
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 4. Nix the Negatives and Naysayers
- Be Wary of Your Words
- How We Connect
- Confronting Negatives and Naysayers
- Be a Better Listener
- Practical Ways to Nix the Negatives
- Reframing: A Powerful Skill
- When People Won't Budge
- Cultivating Optimism
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 5. Gather a Group
- Why Gather a Group?
- An Inspiring Example
- Asking for Help
- How to Ask for Help
- A Coaching Approach to Leading Groups: "I Have a Group. Now What?"
- How to Coach Groups
- Two Group Coaching Models
- Successful Group Coaching
- Benefits of Group Coaching
- Challenges
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 6. Emotionally Connect to the Goal
- How to Create an Emotional Connection to Your Goal
- The Mind, Body, and Goal Connection
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 7. Maintain Momentum
- Coaching to Action
- Resistance Ahead!
- Shifting from Discussion to Action
- Choosing Courageous Actions
- Maintaining Organization Momentum
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 8. Ask How Can I?
- Become a Possibility Thinker
- How to Develop a Possibility Thinking Mind-Set
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 9. See Success Smiling
- What the Research Says
- Imagery and Visualization Techniques
- Peak Performance Strategies
- How and Why Visualization Is Effective
- A Success Story
- The Science Behind Imagery
- Why Smile?
- Why Seeing Success Smiling Works
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 10. Turn Talk to the Future
- The Future Is Now
- Coach Approach
- Attributes of a Future-Focused Leader
- Self-Talk and Group Talk
- Rationale
- Turning Self-Talk to the Future
- Turning Talk to the Future With Groups
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 11. Expect and Welcome Discomfort
- A Personal Example
- Why Discomfort Is Good
- Taking Charge of Discomfort
- Managing Fear
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 12. Remain Relentlessly Focused
- Narrow the Focus
- Meditation Helps Focus
- Multitasking Is Out: Focus Is In
- Why Stop Multitasking?
- Saying No
- Letting Go
- Pay Attention to Your Attention
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 13. Conclusion
- Underlying Coaching Concepts
CHANGEMASTER Tools
- Tool.01 Challenge Assumptions Tool
- Tool.02 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 1: My Joyfinder
- Tool.03 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 2: A Starter Set of Questions
- Tool.04 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 3: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- Tool.05 Examining Limiting Thoughts Tool
- Tool.06 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 1: A to Z Uplifting Words
- Tool.07 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 2: Noticing the Negatives
- Tool.08 Gather Your Group Tool
- Tool.09 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 1
- Tool.10 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 2: Words That Evoke Positive Emotions
- Tool.11 Maintain Momentum Tool
- Tool.12 Ask How Can I? Becoming a Possibility Thinker Tool
- Tool.13 See Success Smiling Tool
- Tool.14 Turn Talk to the Future Tool
- Tool.15 Expect and Welcome Discomfort Tool
- Tool.16 Remain Relentlessly Focused Tool
- Tool.17 Be a CHANGEMASTER Tool
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://www.corwin.com/changemasterAdditional materials
Description
How to use coaching strategies to lead change in any organization
Be a CHANGEMASTER is a practical guide for school and district leaders that provides 12 strategies for overcoming resistance to change. Unlike more theoretical books, this text shows how to adopt a coaching style of leadership as a systemic change strategy.
Numerous examples demonstrate how the strategies used in this book have led to transformational change. These success stories are drawn from the work of professionally certified coaches. Components include
- Challenging assumptions to prevent them from becoming reality
- Developing a higher purpose to foster happiness and ensure a positive legacy
- Confronting negativity by reframing and cultivating optimism
- Gathering a group to aggregate energy, creativity, and encouragement
- Using imagery and visualization techniques to improve performance
- Focusing on the future to overcome the errors of the past and challenges of the present
Coaching is the proven change process, and leaders everywhere need to master the skills and strategies coaches use to transform their organizations efficiently and effectively. This book helps turn executives, managers, and team leaders into motivators and their organizations into winners.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction
- 1. Challenge Assumptions
- Challenge Those Assumptions
- How Assumptions Hold Us Back
- Assumptions Become Reality
- Thinking for Success
- Change Your Thoughts at Any Time
- How to Challenge and Banish Assumptions
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 2. Have a Higher Purpose
- Why Purpose and Happiness Matter
- What Is Your Mission?
- It's Not About the Soap
- What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?
- Finding Meaning in Work and Life
- Leading Yourself and Others to Discover Their Higher Purpose
- Finding Joy
- Your Life's Compass: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- A Word About Courage
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 3. Awareness of Limiting Thoughts
- What Are Limiting Thoughts?
- Managing Limiting Thoughts and Beliefs
- The Power of Choice
- How to Change Limiting Thoughts to Expanding Thoughts
- A Formula for Freedom
- Direct Your Brain to Change
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 4. Nix the Negatives and Naysayers
- Be Wary of Your Words
- How We Connect
- Confronting Negatives and Naysayers
- Be a Better Listener
- Practical Ways to Nix the Negatives
- Reframing: A Powerful Skill
- When People Won't Budge
- Cultivating Optimism
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 5. Gather a Group
- Why Gather a Group?
- An Inspiring Example
- Asking for Help
- How to Ask for Help
- A Coaching Approach to Leading Groups: "I Have a Group. Now What?"
- How to Coach Groups
- Two Group Coaching Models
- Successful Group Coaching
- Benefits of Group Coaching
- Challenges
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 6. Emotionally Connect to the Goal
- How to Create an Emotional Connection to Your Goal
- The Mind, Body, and Goal Connection
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 7. Maintain Momentum
- Coaching to Action
- Resistance Ahead!
- Shifting from Discussion to Action
- Choosing Courageous Actions
- Maintaining Organization Momentum
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 8. Ask How Can I?
- Become a Possibility Thinker
- How to Develop a Possibility Thinking Mind-Set
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 9. See Success Smiling
- What the Research Says
- Imagery and Visualization Techniques
- Peak Performance Strategies
- How and Why Visualization Is Effective
- A Success Story
- The Science Behind Imagery
- Why Smile?
- Why Seeing Success Smiling Works
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 10. Turn Talk to the Future
- The Future Is Now
- Coach Approach
- Attributes of a Future-Focused Leader
- Self-Talk and Group Talk
- Rationale
- Turning Self-Talk to the Future
- Turning Talk to the Future With Groups
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 11. Expect and Welcome Discomfort
- A Personal Example
- Why Discomfort Is Good
- Taking Charge of Discomfort
- Managing Fear
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 12. Remain Relentlessly Focused
- Narrow the Focus
- Meditation Helps Focus
- Multitasking Is Out: Focus Is In
- Why Stop Multitasking?
- Saying No
- Letting Go
- Pay Attention to Your Attention
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 13. Conclusion
- Underlying Coaching Concepts
CHANGEMASTER Tools
- Tool.01 Challenge Assumptions Tool
- Tool.02 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 1: My Joyfinder
- Tool.03 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 2: A Starter Set of Questions
- Tool.04 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 3: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- Tool.05 Examining Limiting Thoughts Tool
- Tool.06 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 1: A to Z Uplifting Words
- Tool.07 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 2: Noticing the Negatives
- Tool.08 Gather Your Group Tool
- Tool.09 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 1
- Tool.10 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 2: Words That Evoke Positive Emotions
- Tool.11 Maintain Momentum Tool
- Tool.12 Ask How Can I? Becoming a Possibility Thinker Tool
- Tool.13 See Success Smiling Tool
- Tool.14 Turn Talk to the Future Tool
- Tool.15 Expect and Welcome Discomfort Tool
- Tool.16 Remain Relentlessly Focused Tool
- Tool.17 Be a CHANGEMASTER Tool
References
References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://www.corwin.com/changemasterAdditional materials
Reviews
Be a CHANGEMASTER
12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change
February 2012 | 208 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412997454 | $41.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781452283678 | $38.00 |
How to use coaching strategies to lead change in any organization
Be a CHANGEMASTER is a practical guide for school and district leaders that provides 12 strategies for overcoming resistance to change. Unlike more theoretical books, this text shows how to adopt a coaching style of leadership as a systemic change strategy.
Numerous examples demonstrate how the strategies used in this book have led to transformational change. These success stories are drawn from the work of professionally certified coaches. Components include
- Challenging assumptions to prevent them from becoming reality
- Developing a higher purpose to foster happiness and ensure a positive legacy
- Confronting negativity by reframing and cultivating optimism
- Gathering a group to aggregate energy, creativity, and encouragement
- Using imagery and visualization techniques to improve performance
- Focusing on the future to overcome the errors of the past and challenges of the present
Coaching is the proven change process, and leaders everywhere need to master the skills and strategies coaches use to transform their organizations efficiently and effectively. This book helps turn executives, managers, and team leaders into motivators and their organizations into winners.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. Challenge Assumptions
- Challenge Those Assumptions
- How Assumptions Hold Us Back
- Assumptions Become Reality
- Thinking for Success
- Change Your Thoughts at Any Time
- How to Challenge and Banish Assumptions
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 2. Have a Higher Purpose
- Why Purpose and Happiness Matter
- What Is Your Mission?
- It's Not About the Soap
- What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?
- Finding Meaning in Work and Life
- Leading Yourself and Others to Discover Their Higher Purpose
- Finding Joy
- Your Life's Compass: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- A Word About Courage
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 3. Awareness of Limiting Thoughts
- What Are Limiting Thoughts?
- Managing Limiting Thoughts and Beliefs
- The Power of Choice
- How to Change Limiting Thoughts to Expanding Thoughts
- A Formula for Freedom
- Direct Your Brain to Change
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 4. Nix the Negatives and Naysayers
- Be Wary of Your Words
- How We Connect
- Confronting Negatives and Naysayers
- Be a Better Listener
- Practical Ways to Nix the Negatives
- Reframing: A Powerful Skill
- When People Won't Budge
- Cultivating Optimism
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 5. Gather a Group
- Why Gather a Group?
- An Inspiring Example
- Asking for Help
- How to Ask for Help
- A Coaching Approach to Leading Groups: "I Have a Group. Now What?"
- How to Coach Groups
- Two Group Coaching Models
- Successful Group Coaching
- Benefits of Group Coaching
- Challenges
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 6. Emotionally Connect to the Goal
- How to Create an Emotional Connection to Your Goal
- The Mind, Body, and Goal Connection
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 7. Maintain Momentum
- Coaching to Action
- Resistance Ahead!
- Shifting from Discussion to Action
- Choosing Courageous Actions
- Maintaining Organization Momentum
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 8. Ask How Can I?
- Become a Possibility Thinker
- How to Develop a Possibility Thinking Mind-Set
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 9. See Success Smiling
- What the Research Says
- Imagery and Visualization Techniques
- Peak Performance Strategies
- How and Why Visualization Is Effective
- A Success Story
- The Science Behind Imagery
- Why Smile?
- Why Seeing Success Smiling Works
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 10. Turn Talk to the Future
- The Future Is Now
- Coach Approach
- Attributes of a Future-Focused Leader
- Self-Talk and Group Talk
- Rationale
- Turning Self-Talk to the Future
- Turning Talk to the Future With Groups
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 11. Expect and Welcome Discomfort
- A Personal Example
- Why Discomfort Is Good
- Taking Charge of Discomfort
- Managing Fear
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 12. Remain Relentlessly Focused
- Narrow the Focus
- Meditation Helps Focus
- Multitasking Is Out: Focus Is In
- Why Stop Multitasking?
- Saying No
- Letting Go
- Pay Attention to Your Attention
- Tips for Success
- Summary
- 13. Conclusion
- Underlying Coaching Concepts
- CHANGEMASTER Tools
- Tool.01 Challenge Assumptions Tool
- Tool.02 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 1: My Joyfinder
- Tool.03 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 2: A Starter Set of Questions
- Tool.04 Have a Higher Purpose Tool 3: Creating a Personal Mission Statement
- Tool.05 Examining Limiting Thoughts Tool
- Tool.06 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 1: A to Z Uplifting Words
- Tool.07 Nix the Negatives and Naysayers Tool 2: Noticing the Negatives
- Tool.08 Gather Your Group Tool
- Tool.09 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 1
- Tool.10 Emotionally Connect to Your Goal Tool 2: Words That Evoke Positive Emotions
- Tool.11 Maintain Momentum Tool
- Tool.12 Ask How Can I? Becoming a Possibility Thinker Tool
- Tool.13 See Success Smiling Tool
- Tool.14 Turn Talk to the Future Tool
- Tool.15 Expect and Welcome Discomfort Tool
- Tool.16 Remain Relentlessly Focused Tool
- Tool.17 Be a CHANGEMASTER Tool
- References
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
“Rarely have I seen a book about change theory written to address the unique and problematic structure of public schools. This book does it with style and is a wonderful addition to every educator’s library!”
Kay Teehan, Technology Resource Specialist, Polk County Schools, Lakeland, FL
“This book provides practical strategies for leading others down the path of professional and personal change—a great journey!”
Mary Ann Hartwick, Principal, Litchfield Elementary School, Litchfield Park, AZ
“The author explains how sometimes it is necessary to work with individuals and with small groups. She is right on regarding every aspect about how important this is."
Alice Manus, Assistant Principal of Academics: Curriculum, Instruction, Guidance, and Counseling, Soldan International Studies High School, St. Louis, MO
"In Be a CHANGEMASTER: 12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change, Karla Reiss examines the steps and strategies involved in making effective and lasting personal and professional change. Prior to founding Change Place, Reiss served as a school administrator and experienced the change process in a variety of educational settings. As Reiss explains early on, the focus of the book is slightly different than many other books written about the change process. 'The body of knowledge this book is based on is derived from the field of professional coaching, and not from research on brain function, not from years of formal research into the change process.' As indicated in the title, the book reviews 12 strategies for change that range from challenging current assumptions within your organization to maintaining forward momentum and action once the change process is underway. Each chapter ends with a very informative summary section and provides the reader with a list of key concepts. Reiss also provides a variety of templates and forms that could be easily used to promote discussion within your group. Any school leader interested in learning more about developing lasting change should find this book useful."
The School Administrator Magazine, September 2013, AASA