Jan Salisbury - Leaders Who Coach: The Roadmap to Unleashing Team Genius

Leaders Who Coach brings a powerful, emotionally intelligent approach to leadership, one thats supported by both psychological and neurological research and business results. It provides superb coaching tools to engage the mentees intrinsic motivation, which makes it a must-read for leaders who want to be successful with todays culturally and generationally diverse workforce.

Jorge Cherbosque, PhD,
Lee Gardenswartz, PhD and Anita Rowe, PhD, authors of
Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World

Leaders Who Coach is a powerful guide for any leader who wants to make a profound difference in the lives of their employees and their organization as a whole. Jan Salisburys accessible formula for adopting a coach approach to leadership is practical, inspiring, and empowering. I finally have a tool that I can share with the executives I coach that has the potential to revolutionize their impact.

Lis Stewart
Principal-in-Charge, Center for Individual and
Organizational Performance Eisner Advisory Group LLC

Leaders Who Coach gives you freedom from having to know the answer to every question that shows up at your door (and the dread that accompanies that). Its a framework for coaching your team to be more capable, smarter, and more powerful after every visit to your office and every coaching conversation. Jans craftsmanship and love of coaching brings an actionable system (used by every one of our leaders) that builds on strengths and capabilities, rather than whats wrong.

Pete Ness, Founder, Pingman Tools

Farming and ranching brims with leaders whose highest value is independence, and yet our livelihoods depend on a high degree of internal and external collaboration. This book powerfully presents how families in agriculture and leaders everywhere can learn to listen, coach each other, and lead from positions of vulnerability. I could have used it during the forty years of leadership in schools and agriculture.

Carol Parker, MEd,
Founder Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum,
Valley Food Partnership, and the Parker Ranch.

Heres your practical, potent, and inspiring guide to tapping into the ideas, thoughts, wisdom, and brilliance that is right in front of youyour team! Jan has expertly crafted an easy-to-follow guide that will support you in leveraging the enormous power of coaching. Weve got more than enough tellers and knowers, when what we need are leaders who coach.

Alison Hendren, MCC
Founder and CEO, Coaching Out of the Box

A must-read for all leaders. Jans expertise in both leadership and coaching come together in this book to offer specific examples that powerfully illustrate the coach approach in a way thats relatable and easily translated to practice. This book makes coaching accessible for anyone who wants to up their leadership game and support the growth of those they lead in meaningful and inspiring ways.

Lerae Gidyk, Master Certified Coach,
Soul Designs Coaching Founder Canada

If you want to be the kind of leader who empowers your people, team, and organization to thrive, read this book. Through this highly accessible and hands-on book, Jan will accompany you with encouragement, questions, and suggestions based on her thirty years experience as a Master Coach to leaders. The journey to become a leader who coaches may not be a thousand miles long, but it does begin with a single step. Take yours now.

Dr. Declan Woods
Top team psychologist and CEO Coach,
CEO, teamGenie and creator of teamSalient
Global Head, Team Coaching, The Association for Coaching

Ive worked with Jan Salisbury for twenty-plus years in various stages of leadership. The Fire Service is militaristic on the fire groundsomething thats required to keep everyone as safe as possible. But leading in the firehouse, the day-to-day personal interactions, requires a different approach. Learning how to effectively coach and not manage fire department employees has been an invaluable skill set. Over the past few years, Ive introduced Jan to other fire department officers who have found similar success in their professional development. I highly recommend this book if youre interested in further developing your coaching skills.

Mark Niemeyer,Fire Chief, Boise Fire Department
Vice-President, Western Fire Chiefs Association

The coaching skills I learned from the program in this book completely changed the way I approached leading my team and will change the way you lead your team as well. It offers fantastic skills that will change all your relationships at work for the better. A must-read for leaders wanting to grow their teams and increase their impact.

Alyson Powell Erwin,
Vice President of Product, Healthwise

When you show up differently as a leader, you create an opportunity for every employee to flourish. Jan creates a pathway to develop yourself as a leader while providing examples of how leaders have found success as leaders who coach. She uses three primary skills of coaching to build into a coaching roadmap. The coaching roadmap is aligned with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and provides visual guidance for the foundation of coaching. Read and dive into each chapters NEXT section. Its an opportunity to dig deeper into your own coaching mindset.

Katie Schimmelpfennig, RN, MS, Healthcare Leader

If youre a leader, youre a coachat least you should be. In Leaders Who Coach, Jan Salisbury offers helpful reminders for leaders whove already discovered the power of coaching. For leaders who are starting their coaching journey and are seeking to elevate the performance of those around them, Jans book is a roadmap filled with plenty of practical coaching concepts and models.

Greg Bustin, Vistage International Master Chair,
Author of Accountability: The Key to Driving
a High-Performance Culture

LEADERS WHO COACH

THE ROADMAP TO
UNLEASHING TEAM GENIUS

JANSALISBURY

Stonebrook Publishing
Saint Louis, Missouri

A STONEBROOK PUBLISHING BOOK
2022 Jan Salisbury

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Stonebrook Publishing, a division of Stonebrook Enterprises, LLC, Saint Louis, Missouri. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without written permission from the author.

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The Gottman Feeling Wheel in Appendix B is printed with permission from the Gottman Institute.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906462

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-955711-12-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-955711-13-5

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This book is dedicated to my husband, John Connors, who was always positive and never lost faith in my ability to write it, and to my daughter, Cameron Cook, whose encouragement and role model remind me to contribute to a better world every day.