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)
Innehållsförteckning
Foreword by Michael Fullan
Preface
A Focus on Leadership Resilience
Orientation to This Book
Follow-Up
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Life Is Hard
Learning Resilience
Sustaining Your Practice of Leadership Resilience
Be a Good Soul
Part I. The Exceptional Nature of Leadership Resilience
Chapter 1. Bounce Forward
The Outcomes of Leadership Resilience
Ordinary Resilience
Leadership Resilience
The Requirements of Leadership: What Makes Leadership Resilience More Challenging
The Stresses of Educational Leadership: Neither Rare Nor Unusual
Moving on to Chapter 2: A Model of Leadership Resilience
Chapter 2. A Model of Leadership Resilience
The Leadership Resilience Model
Key Assumptions of the Leadership Resilience Model
Benefits of the Leadership Resilience Model
Using the Model: A Disciplined Practice
Part II. Enabling Capacities of Leadership Resilience
Chapter 3. Relationships: Surround Yourself With Good Souls
A Relationship Inventory
How Relationships Make Us Resilient
Who Are Your Wilsons?
Beware of Non-Resilient Individuals
Cultivating the Leadership Resilience-Enabler ’Relationships’
Resilience as a Social Identity
Be a Good Soul
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 4. Resonance
A Resonance Inventory
A Force Field of Positive Energy
How Resonance Enables Resilience
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 5. Renewal
A Renewal Inventory
How Renewal Enables Leadership Resilience
Renewal, Creativity, and Problem Solving
On-the-Job Renewal
Cultivating Renewal to Enable Resilience
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Part III. Leadership Resilience in Action
Introduction to Part III: Leadership Resilience in Action
Chapter 6. Stay Calm
First Do Nothing
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 7. Carry On
Carry On
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 8. Accept the New Reality
Adjust Your Perspective
Resist Nostalgia
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 9. Want Something More
Want Something More
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 10. Instigate Adaptive Action
Instigate Adaptive Action
Defining Moments and Wise Decisions
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Chapter 11. Reflect & Celebrate
Personal Reflection and Celebration
Pathways to Personal and Organizational Reflection and Celebration
Summary
Activities and Questions for Study Groups and Teams
Part IV. Leading Organizational Resilience
Chapter 12. Organizational Resilience Risks and Opportunities
Becoming a Resilient Organization
The Resilience Risk Rubric: A Tool to Introduce Innovative Disruption
The Resilience Risk Rubric
Chapter 13. A Final Word: Forgive Yourself Every Day
Appendix: Films, Music, and Literature to Conjure Up Ideas About Leadership Resilience
Films
Music
Literature and Poetry
References
Index
Om författaren
Elle Allison, Founder of Wisdom Out specializes in leadership development and organizational learning. Dr. Allison works with leaders, aspiring leaders, senior leadership teams, school teams and leadership coaches, to teach them the strategies, practices and tools they need to increase their organization’s capacity for sustainable change.Elle has been a teacher, principal, supervisor of school improvement, assistant superintendent, educational consultant and leadership coach. She earned her Ph D. in Organizational Learning, from the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the National Staff Development’s Council’s Academy and is a member of the National Speaker’s Association. She is author of several books and articles on leadership renewal and resilience and on leadership coaching, including Flywheel, published by Corwin in 2013.Elle lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband Len and her 16 year old Vizsla dog named “Ole.’” For customized workshops, leadership academies and boot camps, and keynotes contact Elle at [email protected]. To register for the Wisdom Out newsletter and monthly complimentary webinars, please visit www.Wisdom Out.com.
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