Leadership coaching that moves beyond the status quoHow does leadership coaching lift people and programs beyond the demands of the status quo? What does it mean to serve as a "thought partner" for colleagues at the helm of meaningful change? Dr. Elle Allison shows how successful processes, along with leadership coaching leads to creative and goal-meeting cultures. Named for a physics term that refers to sustainable energy in the absence of its source, Flywheel offers leadership teams the following outcomes: Emerging leaders through meaningful workDeep implementation of your best initiativesBetter interactions and relationshipsAn engaged and committed workforceIncreased ownership and accountabilityInnovative and inspired thinking

Foreword by Rob and Kathy BocchinoPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPart I. PromiseChapter 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. ProjectsChapter 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 ChapterChapter 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 GuidelinesPart III. PracticeChapter 5. The Flywheel System Flywheel Leadership Coaching Components Additional Tools Related to This ChapterChapter 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 "Yoüre Going to Be Great" A Series of Powerful Conversations Leading to Wisdom and Transformational Change It Ain¿t Always Pretty, But Yoüre Going to Be Great Additional Tools Related to This ChapterChapter 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 CoachingChapter 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 5Chapter 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 KnowledgeChapter 10. The Jaunty Walk The Jaunty Walk A Coaching Scenario: Meet "Adam"Part IV. ProgressChapter 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 PartChapter 12. Start a Coaching Movement Remember When We "Did" Coaching? Organizational Considerations That Support Leadership Coaching Final WordsAppendix: Thought Leadership QuestionsReferencesIndex