Are you wondering why your staff sometimes resists your leadership? Or why it is sometimes so hard to motivate people. Or maybe you feel like your ideas and opinions don’t matter to others with whom you work. If so, have I got the books for you!
What I have learned is that when you know yourself well, lean into your strengths, and focus on building the capacities of others, you grow your presence at work, at play, and in relationships.
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Coaching Conversations: Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time, 2nd EditionFocus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations! Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will discover how to:
Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands not only tremendous knowledge and skills, but also highly developed interpersonal skills. Written with an easy-to-use approach, this handbook provides simple yet powerful coaching strategies to help school community members work together toward positive school transformation. Available at Amazon and Corwin. |
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Releasing Leadership Brilliance: Breaking Sound Barriers in EducationHelping Principals achieve their goals for their students, staff, and community. Using the four forces of flight as a metaphor, my coauthor, Simon T. Bailey, and I describe four cornerstones of leadership to create a professional presence that enables educators to break the sound barriers of outdated structures and processes within our current educational system. Our underlying belief is that leadership is an activity, not a position. Every educator needs to be involved in this work. Administrators, faculty, and staff all contribute to creating an optimal learning experience for students. While we do well in our schools in connecting with many of our students, there are other children who are just walking through each day without goals or much effort. Available at Amazon and Corwin. |
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Coaching ConversationsAn effective, inexpensive approach for facilitating transformation through the entire school community! Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands highly developed interpersonal skills. Now this easy-to-use handbook shows school leaders the practical coaching-conversation techniques they need to engage and motivate their school communities to work collaboratively toward total school transformation. Different from supervisory and mentoring conversations, coaching conversations shift responsibility for instructional improvement from the school leader to every member of the school community. In this example-packed guide, the authors use current research and their own extensive experience to help school leaders:
With this powerful approach, every member of the school community participates in the transformation of the school and shares in the celebration of successful changes! Available at Amazon and Corwin. |
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Opening the Door to Coaching ConversationsWhat does coach leadership look like in action? A leader doesn’t have to solve every problem personally to be effective. In fact, helping others learn to resolve issues and implement their own solutions is the key to sustainable leadership and an empowered staff. This companion and follow-up book to Coaching Conversations brings the coaching style of leadership to life with stories from the experienced coaches on the Results Coaching team. Featuring examples of real people facing real problems who use coaching skills with great success, each chapter deals with a challenging leadership area and includes space for personal reflection, questions, and next steps. Topics include
As you focus on developing those around you, you earn the trust and loyalty of your team. This book’s examples demonstrate that coach leadership is not only possible, it is the smartest way to lead in the 21st century! Available at Amazon and Corwin. |
