Transformational leadership coaching is "changing who you are to change what you do." It's coaching for transformational change; dealing with the root issues of underlying values, core beliefs, internal obstacles and personal identity. Coach22 recommends these resources for working at transformative Christian coaching.
To create a sustainable, competitive advantage for your organization, you need a team-based, feedback-rich, high-performance culture that relies on transformational coaching as the universal, connective practice.
The Heart of Coaching introduces Transformational Coaching as a fundamentally different way of approaching the process of leading others to enhance their performance. It creates egalitarian, mutually supportive, high-trust partnerships between people that transcend the traditional boss/subordinate roles. Shifting your mindset from "The Boss" to "The Coach" is essential for this coaching transformation. This book is a clear guide for accomplishing that shift.
Transformational Coaching is the requisite skill for today’s leaders, managers, and supervisors who choose to enhance their personal effectiveness and the performance of those they lead.
by Tony Stoltzfus Audio Sessions (127 minutes) plus handouts and exercises
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Major transitions are often seasons of frustration, difficulty and loss. The in-between times when we've lost the old thing and haven't yet moved into the new are difficult to navigate. How do you coach a leader through a major transition?
This two-disc coach training set from master trainer Tony Stoltzfus demonstrates transformational coaching techniques for helping coachees engaging God's purposes for their growth in major life transitions. Starting with the idea that in transitions God births in you the character needed to reach your destiny, Tony shows how to connect times of suffering and difficulty to God's purposes, with several powerful Christian coaching tools based on Romans 8:28.
This CD set provides teaching on understanding transitions, plus advanced Christian coach training for aspiring or practicing coaches. Handouts and exercises are included.
Introduce calling concepts into the way you coach life purpose discovery with this new teaching CD from Tony Stoltzfus. A companion to the life purpose discovery manual A Leader's Life Purpose Handbook, this CD introduces a biblical model of the stages a leader goes through in the development of his or her calling. You’ll learn a variety of common ways people receive a calling, examine one-time calling events versus progressive revelation of call, and discover how suffering can be an integral part of the calling process. The disc also offers an in-depth process for developing calling time lines, with key symptoms and coaching hints for each stage. Calling time lines give you a way to help clients see not just where they are going, but how far along they are in the process of getting there. Downloadable handouts and exercises are included.
Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective offers advanced skills training for aspiring Christian coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input and live demos of several powerful perspective techniques. Sharpen your coaching skills by listening to a masterful coach at work!
One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:
- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.
In this classic book on the stages of leadership development, Clinton helps you understand what God is doing in the transitional seasons of your life. If you are in the middle of a career change, a significant move, or sense a coming change of seasons in your life, this wonderful handbook will help you and your coach maximize God's work in you in the midst of change. It's definitely a book that should be in every leader's library.
In The Making of a Leader, Dr. Robert Clinton identifies the key patterns God uses to develop a leader over a life. Through studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr.Clinton has identified the six stages of leadership development, and documented the processes and types of events God uses to develop the leader in each season of life. Transitional seasons between stages are treated in depth, as these waypoints are key indicators of where a leader is in his or her development.
by Tony Stoltzfus Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format Listen to a Clip!
In this Christian coach training audio CD, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows how to build authentic coaching relationships with those you coach (and with everyone else you meet!) Starting with the idea that an authentic relationship is only one conversation away, Tony shows how to use stories to go deep quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories you can use while coaching (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build relationship coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.
The new Coaching Essentials Series CDs provide training in core skills for aspiring or practicing Christian coaches, in enhanced CD format that includes handouts and free articles as well as audio.
Transformissional Coaching Price: $19.99 Empowering Leaders in a Changing Ministry World by Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl 304 pages, hardcover
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Even leaders need leading. In this greatly changing world, ministry experts Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl have coined the phrase "transformissional" to define the unique type of inspired coaching they offer to spiritual leaders in need of fresh direction.
This book is a basic coaching how-to with an emphasis on church planting, coaching post-moderns and working with leaders. While it covers some of the same ground as other how-to books (like Coaching Christian Leaders or Leadership Coaching), it adds some valuable information on coaching missional leaders and post-moderns that is not found anywhere else. A good addition to a coaches library.
Waiting for Your Destiny
Staying on Course When Your Call Seems Far Away
By Tony Stoltzfus
We all go through transitional seasons. Usually there is an awkward period where the old role or old way of thinking no longer fits, but the new thing has yet to come about. This can be a purely internal shift in our mode of ministry that happens while we keep the same job in the same community. But most often it is accompanied by external factors that reflect the internal: we switch jobs or careers and have a period of unemployment between, we go on sabbatical, we relocate.
In these transitions, the act of waiting in our external circumstances reflects what God is doing in our hearts. In both cases, we have to wait on God to move us forward in his time. We can no more make the seasons of our hearts change than we can make the winter go by faster.
One special kind of waiting season relates to fulfilling our life purpose. These times when we long for the not-yet-seen fulfillment of our destiny are often much longer. Years of life may pass with a sense of waiting: the promise God has given us about what we are to do in life is not happening. No matter how much we struggle or what we try...
