Coaching for
Renewal
Daniel J Pesut PhD RN PMH CNS –BC FAAN
Professor of Nursing and Faculty Fellow
Office of Academic Affairs
• Discuss a strengths and values approach to leadership
development
• Discuss the differences between identity, and reputation
through understanding the inside, bright side and dark side
of leadership.
• Examine the role of emotional intelligence as it relates to
leadership success.
• Discuss cycles of change and renewal that foster insight,
and action for professional development.
Leadership Development Series
• Discuss the eco-cycle of change and renewal.
• Discuss a strengths, values, and renewal based approach
to personal leadership development
• Create a personal renewal leadership development plan
based on a strengths, values, and renewal assessment.
• Reflect on your why- be- do statement.
• Discuss and reflect stand out strengths that support
success.
• Develop a plan to learn more about personal and
professional coaching for renewal.
Outcomes
• The ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a
thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them
to maximize their personal and professional potential.
http://www.coachfederat
ion.org/
The Patterns of Change
Uptime
Dreams & Plans
Accomplishments
New Goals & Purpose
Training & Relearning
Downtime
A Life/Work Chapter
Outer Journey
- External Systems
- Thinking - Doing
- Accomplishments
- Results - Evaluation
- Internal Process - Flow
- Feelings & Introspection
- Being - Renewal
Inner Journey
A Life/Work Transition
The Predictable
Cycle of
Renewal
Phase I
Go For It - A Period of Stability
Essential Life Skills
- Identify the “Dream”
- Create the “Plan”
- Sustain the “Plateau”
- Elicit Support
Feelings in the phase:
Confidence, Courage, Energy,
Competitive, Collaborative
Useful Activities in this phase:
Career training, Networking, Time
Management, Pacing, Life Balance,
Professional Organizations, Friends
- purposive
- focused & directed
- high energy
- optimistic
- multiple priorities
- committed
Results to Accomplish in this phase:
Reach Goals, Change & Improve Goals, Enjoy
the Success, Receive Financial Rewards,
Follow Sense of Purpose, Take New Risks,
Use Creativity
- accomplishing
- succeeding
Phase II
Doldrums - A Period of Detachment & Restlessness
Essential Life Skills
Feelings in this phase:
Sense of Decline
- Develop an exit strategy and
choose a route ahead
- Mini-transition or Cocooning
Trapped
Defeated
Useful Activities in this phase:
Mad, Angry
Create an Exit Plan
Find a New Job
Get some Coaching
Take a Sabbatical
Results I want To Accomplish in this phase:
Successful Departure for a
minitransition
Or;
Successful Departure for a
Life Transition
- disenchanted
- trapped
- angry
The Mini-Transition
Restructuring the Current Chapter
Ask These Questions:
What do I Hold On To?
What do I Let Go Of ?
What do I Take On?
What do I Move On?
Phase III
Cocooning - Coming To Terms With Yourself
Typical Feelings in this phase:
- healing
Grief
Relief
- inner work
Liberation
Fear
Useful Activities in this phase:
New Training
- meditative
Transition Job
Journaling
- quiet
Retreat Time
Time w/ Friends
Results to Accomplish in this phase:
Sabbatical At Last!
Time to “Grow Me”
Solitude
Spiritual Renewal
New Sense of Purpose
New Friends
- introspective
Essential Life Skills
- Develop and Nurture Myself
- spiritual
- exploring
- Spend Time Alone
- reconstructing
Phase IV
Getting Ready - A Time For Experimenting
Feelings in this phase:
Creativity
Trust
Fire
Love
- testing
Lightness of Being
- experimenting
Useful Activities in this phase:
- taking risks
Career Search
- not committing
Simplify Lifestyle
- networking
Get Advanced Degree
- piloting new products
- creativity
Adult Ed. Classes
Explore Options
Travel
Essential Life Skills
- Explore
- Experiment
Results To Accomplish in this phase:
Redefine Sense of Purpose
Get Fix on What’s Important
- Training
Take New Risks
- Discover
Renew Relationships
Managing
Renewal
Ecocycle Lessons
 Change is continuous along the cycle
 Renewal requires creative destruction
 Need for crisis -- root word “to sift”
 Need for firebreaks, don’t burn everything
 Patch dynamics or balance in your activities
are key to long term survival and adaptability
 Create conditions for renewal & more “births”
Exploring the Ecocycle
RENEWAL
MATURITY
Sowing
Harvesting
BIRTH
CREATIVE
DESTRUCTION
Growing
Plowing
RENEWAL
MATURITY
Exploration/Invention /Reorganization
Conservation & Routinization
Visionary-As-Leader
Bureaucrat-As-Leader
Poverty Trap
Not funding innovation
~ Gathering
What can YOU do right now
to move one important element
forward in the Ecocycle?
BIRTH
Entrepreneurial Action
Entrepreneur-As-Leader
Rigidity Trap
Not letting go
~ Sifting
CREATIVE
DESTRUCTION
Release/Crisis/Confusion
Heretic-As-Leader
Ecocycle Worksheet Sample
Name:
Renewal
Mobilization
Maturity
Conservation
“Sowing”
“Harvesting”
Change activity,
behavior or program
Change activity,
behavior, or program
.
Change activity,
behavior or program
Change activity,
behavior or program
Birth
Exploitation
Creative
Destruction
“Growing”
“Plowing”
Higher Ground Leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H52C7e6092k
Values Centered Leadership
MASTERY: What must we do well in order to accomplish
objectives? What must we LEARN to achieve the necessary
MASTERY?
CHEMISTRY: To achieve goals, who will be on the team?
How will we build Relationships and inspire each other?
With whom should we EMPATHIZE?
DELIVERY: Whom are we serving? How will we know that we
have met their Needs? To whom and how will we LISTEN?
*Secretan, Lance (2010). The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch,
the Secretan Center, Inc. Caledon, Ontario, Canada
• What is your destiny statement? Your spark?
• Passion is drawn to things that excite us –positively
and negatively
• At our core, we all yearn to serve and improve the
world
• www.secretan.com
Spark, Flame, Torch
Secretan, Lance ( 2010). The Spark, Flame and the Torch: Inspire Self,
Inspire Others. Inspire the World. The Secretan Center, Caledon, Ontario, Canada
• Write down two things that spoil the world for you and that
hold the potential to threaten or wound the world and to cause
serious global damage if we do not change or reverse them.
• Now write the opposite of these words. The exact opposite –
now craft these terrafixes into a statement that describes how
you wish to dedicate your life –what the future holds for you
depends on what you hold for the future.
Destiny
Secretan, Lance ( 2010). The Spark, Flame and the Torch: Inspire Self,
Inspire Others. Inspire the World. The Secretan Center, Caledon, Ontario, Canada
• What is your character –how do you want to BE in the
world? How do you wish to live your life?
• What qualities do you want to live by so that they are
inspiring beacon and model for others?
• How do you want to be remembered at the end of your
life?
• How do you hope that others will describe your
character?
Character
Secretan, Lance ( 2010). The Spark, Flame and the Torch: Inspire Self,
Inspire Others. Inspire the World. The Secretan Center, Caledon, Ontario, Canada
• The true gifts and skills to which my heart is called
are…….
• The work I do today needs more……..
• The livelihood that would best serve my essential self
is…..
• What must I do to ensure the intersection of my talents
and passion serves the needs of the world, and thus
guides my current path?
Calling
Secretan, Lance ( 2010). The Spark, Flame and the Torch: Inspire Self,
Inspire Others. Inspire the World. The Secretan Center, Caledon, Ontario, Canada
1. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work engage in a
high level of personal renewal. They make time for activities that
make them happy so they have more energy to "show up" to create
results and have a positive impact on the organization.
2. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work are
extraordinarily resilient. They bounce back from failure and they
bounce forward in times of change.
3. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work are optimistic.
They face harsh realities and brutal truths but they feel empowered to
do something about it.
Leaders and Renewal*
* Reeves, Douglas & Allison, Elle (2009). Renewal Coaching: Sustainable Change for
Individuals and Organizations: Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA.
4. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work give a little
more than they take. We say they have high levels of "reciprocity.“
5. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work have cultivated
networks of relationships that they inspire toward supporting and
sustaining the best work of the organization. These leaders secure and
keep "buy in.“
6. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work make wise and
timely decisions. They resist over generalization and are not "in love"
with their own data.
7. Leaders who are happy and doing meaningful work are highly
resonant. They create positive force fields of emotion and energy that
inspire hope, compassion, and action within the organization. These
leaders are emotionally intelligent
Leaders and Renewal*
* Reeves, Douglas & Allison, Elle (2009). Renewal Coaching: Sustainable Change for
Individuals and Organizations: Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA.
http://www.renewalcoaching.com/assessments.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVepntrjhsM
Renewal Coaching and
Assessment
Vulnerable but Hopeful
(high in resonance low in
recognition)
Wise ( But not Delusional)
(high in renewal and high in reality)
Foolish and Despairing
(low in resilience and low in
recognition)
Cynical and Angry
(high in reality and low in
relationship)
Low
High
Insight and Analysis
Renewal Assessment
Perspectives
Reeves, Douglas & Allison, Elle (2010). Renewal Coaching Workbook, Jossey Bass, San
Francisco, CA.
Frustration
Renewal
Excellent insights, low
organizational and personal impact
not sustainable
Meaningful work, important
relationships, and flawless
execution
Despair
Boredom
Work without meaning or impact, so
Excellent time and project
it takes forever to get very little
management but the work has lost its
accomplished
meaning
Not sustainable
Not sustainable
Low
High
Efficiency and Effectiveness
Renewal Coaching
Leadership Model
Reeves, Douglas & Allison, Elle (2012). Renewal Coaching: Fieldbook: How Effective
Leaders Sustain Meaningful Change, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA.
• Choose to engage in personal renewal every day.
• Choose to bounce forward in the face of loss.
• Choose to resonate a positive force field of emotional energy.
• Choose to create networks of support.
• Choose to initiate cycles of learning –give more than you take.
• Choose to face harsh realities with optimism and a “can do”
attitude.
• Choose to make wise and timely decisions.
Renewal Choices
Allison, Elle & Reeves, Douglas (2012). Renewal Coaching Field book: How Effective
Leaders Sustain Meaningful Change Jossey Bass, Wiley Imprint Book, San Francisco, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TohQbG7TT1Y&feature=related
Find Your Edge: Know Your
Standout Strengths*
• Your genius is precise
• You can’t respect what you don’t remember.
• You must reach beyond your roles
Advisor
Connector (whom can I connect)
Creator
Equalizer
Influencer
Pioneer
Provider (Is everyone ok) Stimulator
Teacher
*Buckingham, Marcus (2011). Standout, Thomas Nelson Publishers,
Nashville, TN.
Thought Leader Questions
to Activate Renewal
Find a partner you do not know well.
Take turns asking each other the Thought Leader
Questions to Activate Renewal from the handout
provided.
START, STOP, CONTINUE
START – What am I going to start doing as a result
of my learning?
STOP – What am I going to stop doing as a result
of my learning?
CONTINUE – What am I going to continue doing
as a result of my learning?
Future Pacing
• What concepts, tools,
techniques are most
useful?
• How can the information
be used?
• Why is the information
important?
• Why care about the
information?