Turn adversity from fearsome foe to welcome friend. Ordinary resilience is not enough to inspire teams to greatness. Effective leaders must welcome adversity and harness it for positive change that creates results and makes life and work more joyful. Follow stories of successful educators to discover how to harness the power of leadership resiliency in education. Find out why it matters and how you can be a catalyst for bouncing forward in your own environment. Drawing on the latest research from organizational psychology and her experiences as a transformational leadership coach, Elle Allison Napolitano helps readers by: Defining leadership resiliency Explaining how leadership resiliency applies in educational leadership Showing you how to find it in yourself Outlining steps to make your leadership resilience visible Providing a rubric to gauge the resiliency of your organization Bounce forward from adversity to lead a successful learning organization that can face new challenges and build for the future. "Bounce Forward is a wonderful book that is at once as realistic as it is inspiring. Read it and it will take you deeper into your life, past, present and future. It will bring you tears, but ultimately it will put a fresh bounce in your step." -From the Foreword by Michael Fullan "Leadership resilience is the linchpin of 21st century leadership survival and success. Allison-Napolitano's book is an insightful guide to resilience and is a MUST read for today's leaders and aspiring leaders." -Anita Johnson, Executive Director National Center for Education, Research and Technology (NCERT)
Transformational Leadership Coaching for Sustainable Change
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
