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

About the Author

Elle Allison, Founder of Wisdom Out specializes in leadership development and organizational learning. Dr. Allison works with leaders, aspiring leaders, senior leadership teams, school teams and leadership coaches, to teach them the strategies, practices and tools they need to increase their organization's capacity for sustainable change. Elle has been a teacher, principal, supervisor of school improvement, assistant superintendent, educational consultant and leadership coach. She earned her PhD. in Organizational Learning, from the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the National Staff Development's Council's Academy and is a member of the National Speaker's Association. She is author of several books and articles on leadership renewal and resilience and on leadership coaching, including Flywheel, published by Corwin in 2013. Elle lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband Len and her 16 year old Vizsla dog named "Ole.'" For customized workshops, leadership academies and boot camps, and keynotes contact Elle at elle@wisdomout.com. To register for the Wisdom Out newsletter and monthly complimentary webinars, please visit www.WisdomOut.com.

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
"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
"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
"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