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The Secret to Sustainable Change? Happiness and Meaningful Work Supported by Leadership Coaching
Danville,
CA (11/22/11). What would it mean to your organization if more people knew how
to sustain their leadership focus in order to achieve deep implementation of
your best initiatives? What if more educators: from administrators to classroom
teachers, were energized, resilient, optimistic, and resonated good mojo to
engage and inspire others to do the same? What if more employees asked powerful
questions that brought out the thought leader in every employee?
Inspired and Sustainable Leadership
In the Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How Effective Leaders Sustain Meaningful
Change (Jossey-Bass 2011) authors Elle Allison and Douglas Reeves
provide a guide for leaders who want to do meaningful work that creates results.
According to Elle Allison, meaningful work also produces happiness. She says, "We have learned that leaders who efficiently and effectively engage in
meaningful work are happier and have more energy than leaders who do not. If you
think about it, this makes sense, but still, so many leaders are uncertain
about how to do it." Drawing on research and real world examples from effective
leaders who inspire and sustain meaningful change, Allison and Reeves provide
encouraging and simple advice about the leadership choices these leaders make
each day. The good news is that leaders at all levels, from the superintendent
to the classroom teacher, can decide to make these choices.
Dr. Kristine Servais, former principal, Professor of
Leadership, North Central College, Naperville, IL says of the Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How
Effective Leaders Sustain Meaningful Change: "This is not a fairytale approach to leadership where all is good
and everyone is happy. It is a skillfully written manual that addresses the challenges
and hard times leaders experience that makes resiliency visible and sustained happiness attainable."
The Renewal
Coaching Fieldbook captures the zeitgeist of leaders who accept nothing less of
themselves than engagement in meaningful work that produces results. Here are
the seven choices in a nutshell:
- Choose to engage in personal
renewal, every day.
- Choose to be resilient; to bounce
forward in the face of loss.
- Choose to resonate a positive force
field of emotional energy.
- Choose to create networks of
relationships that support meaningful work
- Choose to initiate cycles of
learning and gratitude. Give more than you take.
- Choose to face harsh realities with
optimism and a "can do" attitude.
- Choose to track patterns in order to
make wise and timely decisions.
Rick
Foster, co-author, How We Choose to Be Happy and Happiness
& Health, says, "Elle and Douglas have written an
important book that could change the way business is done by changing the
lives of people doing it. In our fantastically connected planet, worldwide
commerce impacts all of us immediately, making almost nothing more important
for our long term success than committing to meaningful work lives aimed at the
'greater good.' As Elle and Douglas suggest, individual happiness and global
happiness will be the outcomes. If this is what you want in your own life, and I
hope you do, read this book!"
Coaching for Inspired and
Sustainable Leadership
Even highly
effective leaders, who possess years of successful experience, can succumb to
the change killing forces of the status quo. As famous surgeon and author Atul
Gawande recently wrote in the September issue of the New Yorker, "No
matter how well trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on
their own. That’s where coaching comes in." Thankfully, the seven choices in the Renewal Coaching model
are comprised of practices that can be learned and developed. Best of all,
these practices are highly coachable which means that leaders who coach will
support team members and the employees they supervise, to choose energy and
happiness over frustration, boredom and despair. The Fieldbook provides sets of
powerful coaching questions to elicit inspired thought in each of the seven
areas of leadership for sustainable change.
Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, professor
of Nursing, Certified Hudson Institute Coach, Indiana University,
Indianapolis writes, "The questions in this book will help you generate new
ideas and ways of thinking about your predicaments and provide you with the
way forward to hope, excitement, and satisfaction in service of a greater good."
In the end,
the Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How Effective Leaders Sustain
Meaningful Change provides personal leadership development to
inspire you to do meaningful work for a greater good, maintain your energy to
create sustainable change, and leave you with a heightened sense of compassion
for others who wish to do the same. To special order the book and inquire about
publisher discounts, go to: www.wiley.com/go/renewalcoaching or click here to order
from Amazon.
Learn More About Sustainable
Leadership: Attend Our Complimentary Webinar
Learn
more about Elle Allison, president and co-founder of Renewal Coaching: Leaders of Sustainable Change and her new book, Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How Effective Leaders Sustain Meaningful
Change by participating in a complimentary webinar on December 15.
To register for this webinar, click on this link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/937806346
Keynotes/Workshops
Dr. Elle Allison
also has two new engaging keynotes based on the content of this book.
- 10 Powerful Questions to Engage and Renew
the People You Lead.
- Leaders
of Sustainable Change: The Daily Choices of Leaders Who Are Happy and Doing
Meaningful Work.
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