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Be a CHANGEMASTER
12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change

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February 2012 | 208 pages | Corwin

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.


 
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

Supplements

“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
Key features
The book will contain many success stories from the field. Readers can be assured the experiences shared in this book stem from the work of professionally certified coaches. They will inspire school leaders to consider (or reconsider) coaching as what it is . . . a powerful strategy for successfully mastering change. It will also contain tools and template for processing the strategies; at least one for each chapter or strategy.

Each chapter will include:
• examples and stories from the field
• practical tools and templates to extend the learning experience or to use in staff and planning meetings
• keys to success

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