STIR IT UP!
Stay Relevant: A Self-Coaching Parable
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STIR IT UP! Stay Relevant: A Self-Coaching Parable provides a framework to help people self-coach their way to higher levels of self-awareness and effectiveness for business success and personal growth. The story follows Maribel and her learning and development team at Waverly Corporation as they face the challenge of how to leverage the integration of artificial intelligence tools into their work. Due to an incompetent boss, Maribel is driven to tap into self-coaching to stay relevant and lead her team during this major workplace disruption. People who overlook relevancy run the risk of becoming history. Workers are no longer willing to sit idle and wait for their boss or employer to help them stay relevant in the workplace. STIR IT UP! revolutionizes the idea that the best course of action for an individual’s development rests in their own hands. Self-coaching is the solution. Why? Self-coaching allows you to follow your own curiosity and insights about how you experience work and how your actions can shape and inspire meaningful work for yourself and those around you. STIR IT UP! helps you see your uniqueness, discover the coach within, apply more of your special abilities and move purposefully through life. As a result, self-coaching leads to increased self-awareness, allowing you to tap into your inner wisdom and experiences and make real behavioral shifts to stay relevant. As a self-coach, readers will learn the eight Rs of staying relevant: • Reflect • Refresh • Reveal • Repurpose • Reframe • Resolve • Rebound • Refuel As a self-coach, readers will be able to: • Futureproof their career by growing their own leadership capabilities and keeping up with current trends • Turn fear into momentum and self-doubt into confidence • Connect to a mission they believe in • Use their strengths to add value and create impact at work STIR IT UP! is for every knowledge worker trying to navigate their way in the workforce of the future.
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About the Book
What if you were equipped to take charge of your destiny, taking ownership of your life and career without waiting on someone else–– especially an inept leader––to help you get where you want to go? Self-coaching is the solution. STIR IT UP! Stay Relevant: A Self-Coaching Parable provides a framework to help professionals self-coach their way to higher levels of self-awareness and effectiveness for business success and personal growth. STIR IT UP! helps people identify their uniqueness, apply their special abilities, and move purposefully through the world. As a result, self-coaching leads to increased self-awareness, allowing readers to tap into their inner wisdom and experiences, and make significant behavioral shifts. This book combines research-based theories of self-development and an interactive self-assessment, self-coaching questions and resources to help readers become their own best coach.
About the Author
As CEO of J9 Leading Solutions, a leadership development consulting firm, Janine McClintock has worked with thousands of leaders to accelerate their leadership readiness and stay relevant. She trains and coaches individual managers and executives on leadership issues in the workplace, including situations like those in this book. McClintock created Step Up and Lead: A Leader’s Guide to Building Effective Relationships and Employee Engagement, a video-based program to fill a glaring gap for employees who wanted to develop skills and stay relevant but did not have access to formal training or coaching. Through the delivery of this program, demand for self-directed learning became instantly evident, especially because so few company programs are offered. STIR IT UP! Stay Relevant: A Self-Coaching Parable also fills a gap for working professionals who want to take control of their own career path by being their own coach. McClintock travels and speaks internationally and does virtual workshops and training on leadership topics including change management, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, team effectiveness and communication to large audiences and small groups. Her academic credentials include a BA in Economics and a BA in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MA in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University. McClintock lives in Newport Beach, California with her husband Jon. She is the proud mom of Connor, and stepmom to Jack and Finn.