Renewal Coaching: Sustainable Change for Individuals and Organizations

Renewal Coaching

It is a well-accepted fact that failure to engage in sustainable change can be deadly for both individuals and organizations.?But why then is change so hard? The enormous wealth of change literature currently available is largely focused on satisfaction, efficiency, and effectiveness.?While these are worthy goals, they remain insufficient. In order to help individuals, teams, and complex organizations create and sustain change some-thing different is needed. Renewal Coaching offers a research-based, sustainable approach to individual and organizational improvement that involves a disciplined and collaborative sequence of information, experimentation, feedback, and support.

Renewal Coaching provides a series of personal assessments that will guide individuals and teams through the seven stages of renewal.?Each assessment includes both survey and narrative responses, and readers can use the journal pages in the text or convenient on-line formats to respond.?The Renewal Coaching framework consists of these seven elements: Recognition—Finding patterns of toxicity and renewal; Reality—Confronting change killers in work and life; Reciprocity—Coaching in harmony; Resilience—Coaching through pain; Relationship—Nurturing the personal elements of coaching; Resonance—Coaching with emotional intelligence; Renewal—Creating energy, meaning, and freedom to sustain the Journey.

If you are already a coach, or a leader who uses a coaching perspective, then this frame-work will help sustain the impact of your efforts. If you are a member of an organization that is enduring “initiative fatigue,” then this frame-work will help focus your energy.?And if you are a person who has started change efforts, but has not been able to continue them over the long term, then this frame-work will help you gain the insight, endurance, and moral purpose to continue your individual journey.

Praise for Renewal Coaching

“Renewal Coaching is a clear, provocative, and exceptionally useful book. The clarity and conviction that’s only gained from years of experience shines through the authors’ skillful writing. Their philosophy, concepts, and practices are extremely relevant for leaders in today’s chaotic world.”
—Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science

“Renewal Coaching is a must-read for anyone working with organizational change and renewal through coaching—from school principals to co-rporate leaders, from staff developers to individuals. Reeves and Allison provide a clear, coherent, well written, and imminently useful set of ideas and activities that can be applied immediately.”
—Kent Peterson, author of Shaping School Culture: The Heart ofLead-ership and The Leadership Paradox: Balancing Logic andArtistry in Schools

“In Renewal Coaching, Reeves and?Allison provide a fresh, practical approach to leadership success—based fundamentally on purpose. Their frame-work for success transcends the?usual emphasis on profit and personal satisfaction.?It looks to idealism as the well of energy—and therefore, of?sustained success and?renewal in both personal and professional life. Exceedingly well-written, and with?clear, compelling details?and?exer-cises,?the authors show us?how?coaches and clients?can indeed ‘change the world’ one simple, practical interaction at a time.”???
—Dr. Mike Schmoker, best selling author

“The process of Renewal Coaching is a 21st century, cutting edge app-roach to an essential leadership concept. By promoting commitment to the world beyond an individual, the job, or the organization, Renewal Coaching provides a wide range of tools and techniques that will inevitably improve performance, boost results, and significantly enhance relationships. This is a must-read for all leaders.”
—Dr. Gene Klann, portfolio manager, Individual Leadership Development