Flywheel

Transformational Leadership Coaching for Sustainable Change
Eileen T. Allison-Napolitano - Wisdom Out, Founder
Flywheel
July 2013 | 184 pages | Corwin
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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

Contents

Foreword by Rob and Kathy Bocchino

Foreword by Rob and Kathy Bocchino

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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

Appendix: Thought Leadership Questions

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

Companion Website

http://www.corwin.com/flywheel

Additional materials

Description

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

Contents

Foreword by Rob and Kathy Bocchino

Foreword by Rob and Kathy Bocchino

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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

Appendix: Thought Leadership Questions

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

Companion Website

http://www.corwin.com/flywheel

Additional materials

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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


Table Of Contents:

  • 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

Recent Product Reviews:

"Dr. Elle Allison has once again brought her knowledge, passion, and energy to the coaching world to give us another layer that builds on her previous highly successful works. In a world of ever mounting educational challenges, Dr. Allison’s work brings refreshing clarity in understanding transformational leadership coaching. Our school district continues to be totally committed to a coaching model and Dr. Allison provided the direction that started our journey. Her guidance showed us the possibilities of what coaching could do to create systemic, long-term, and sustainable change. And there was no looking back! Leadership coaching fully supports our district’s vision, structures meaningful work, brings energy to the work, and builds capacity in our administrative teams, lead teachers, and classroom teachers. 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. Thank you, Dr. Allison."
Debbie Lee, , Executive Director of K-12 Curriculum and Instruction, Waterloo Community Schools
“Flywheel is powerful, practical and empowering! Elle Allison-Napolitano effectively provides the reader with a deep understanding of the tools and strategies of Leadership Coaching that support meaningful and productive conversations in educational environments. Leaders will be inspired to apply the 'Powerful Coaching Conversation' process to promote growth, enhance performance and to transform the culture of their schools by investment in collaborative, sustainable change.”
Doreen M. Corrente, Executive Director, R I Center For School Leadership
“Flywheel is a must read for any professional hoping to make organizational change through leadership coaching. Elle Allison-Napolitano’s writing is engaging with rich stories, strong research and easy to follow instructions that will build leadership capacity in any organization.”
Dr. Ann W. Davis, Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“I know there are a lot of “brands” of coaching out there, but Flywheel puts together the skills of great coaching that makes it appealing and manageable for people who may never have thought of themselves as a leader who could coach. Flywheel has synthesized the craft of coaching to a form that is both understandable and accessible to anyone wanting to support others in their important work.”
Tracee Grigsby-Turner, Supervisor of Professional Development, Alief ISD, TX

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