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Renewal Coaching Fieldbook: How Effective Leaders Sustain Meaningful Change
Author(s): Elle Allison (Author), Douglas B. Reeves (Author)
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass
- Publication Date: December 13, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0470414987
- ISBN-13: 9780470414989
Book Description
The Renewal Coaching Fieldbook outlines the seven practices that leaders can learn and develop in order to sustain their energy to do meaningful work. These practices enable leaders to bounce forward in the face of loss, create networks of support, make wise and timely decisions, and engage in personal renewal daily. Throughout are compelling stories of leaders who have overcome the challenges that seek to diminish and overwhelm them, and succeeded in doing meaningful work for a greater good.Praise for Renewal Coaching Fieldbook
“Elle has 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 suggests, 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!”–Rick Foster, co-author, How We Choose to Be Happy and Happiness & Health; publisher, SustainableHappinessCourse.com
“The questions in this book will help you generate new ideas and ways of thinking about your predicaments. They will provide you with the way forward to hope, excitement, and satisfaction in service of a greater good.”–Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, professor of nursing, Certified Hudson Institute Coach, Indiana University, Indianapolis
“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 and makes resiliency visible and sustained happiness attainable.”–Dr. Kristine Servais, former principal and professor of leadership, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
“Elle has 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 suggests, 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!”–Rick Foster, co-author, How We Choose to Be Happy and Happiness & Health; publisher, SustainableHappinessCourse.com
“The questions in this book will help you generate new ideas and ways of thinking about your predicaments. They will provide you with the way forward to hope, excitement, and satisfaction in service of a greater good.”–Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, professor of nursing, Certified Hudson Institute Coach, Indiana University, Indianapolis
“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 and makes resiliency visible and sustained happiness attainable.”–Dr. Kristine Servais, former principal and professor of leadership, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
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About the Author
Elle Allison, Founder of Wisdom Out and author of many books on leadership and leadership coaching, specializes in leadership development and organizational learning. Dr. Allison works with leaders, aspiring leaders, senior leadership teams, and leadership coaches, to teach them the strategies, practices and tools they need to increase their organization’s capacity for sustainable change–and to feel joy and be more resilient as they do it.
Elle lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband Len and her 16 year old Vizsla dog named “Ole.'”
Elle lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband Len and her 16 year old Vizsla dog named “Ole.'”
