Enterprise-wide Coaching

John J. Hoover is Associate Research Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a former K–12 special educator, teaching diverse students representing multiple languages and cultures in western, southwestern, and mid-western states. He earned a BA in Elementary and Special Education (Intellectual Disabilities), an MA in Learning Disabilities and Emotional Disorders with an emphasis in Reading, and a PhD in Curriculum specializing in Special Education. His research agenda for the past two decades has focused on the topic of culturally and linguistically responsive special education referral and assessment of English language and other diverse learners. He is currently PI on a multi-year grant funded project addressing ELs and multi-tiered supports, special education referral and assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, and graduate level teacher preparation for teaching English language and other diverse learners with and without disabilities. Select recent coauthored/coedited books include: Why do English learners struggle with reading: Distinguishing language acquisition from learning disabilities (Pearson); Linking assessment to instruction in multi-tiered models: A teacher’s guide to selecting reading, writing and mathematics interventions (Pearson); Differentiating learning differences from learning and behavioral disabilities: Teaching diverse learners through multi-tiered response to intervention (Allyn & Bacon); and Methods for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional learners (Pearson Merrill). He also is co-author of a nationally normed reading test, Early Reading Assessment (Pro-Ed), and of a research-based educator self-assessment and professional development tool, Core ESL Instructional Practices (CEIP) Guide. Recent referred journal publications include: Increasing usage of ESL instructional practices in a rural county elementary school, Rural Educator (2015); Culturally responsive special education referrals of English learners in one rural county school district: Pilot project, Rural Special Education Quarterly (2015), and Reducing unnecessary referrals: Guidelines for teachers of diverse learners, Teaching Exceptional Children (2012).

‘In Enterprise-wide Coaching: The Ten Commandments, John Hoover continues to advocate applying the craft of coaching through an organizational lens to maximize the value and benefits of coaching for both Your client leaders being coached and the entire enterprise. Dr Hoover advocates and explains how taking a strategic approach to coaching executives requires a systems perspective. John’s book will prepare executive coaches and those who manage coaching functions in organizations to use the 11 Core Competencies of the International Coach Federation (ICF) to alignwhat individual leaders do best with what their organizations need most—all in a cultural context that will ensure coaching consistency and continuity wherever in the world the coaching takes place’.

• Prologue by Amy FriedmanForeword: Global Standards and Global Partners by Magdalena N. MookAcknowledgmentsPart I: Enterprise-wide Coaching: The Ten CommandmentsContextual Coaching Commandment 1: Coach in the Context of the OrganizationContextual Coaching Commandment 2: Coach with the Art of AlignmentContextual Coaching Commandment 3: Keep the Voice of the Organization Present and Alive in All Coaching EngagementsContextual Coaching Commandment 4: Coach Through an Organizational Lens by Establishing a Coaching CoalitionContextual Coaching Commandment 5: Co-create the Engagement—The Macro PerspectiveContextual Coaching Commandment 6: Co-create the Engagement—The Micro PerspectiveContextual Coaching Commandment 7: Establish and Maintain a Coaching Culture for a Well-coached CompanyContextual Coaching Commandment 8: Keep the Leader and the Organization as Co-clients at All TimesContextual Coaching Commandment 9: Keep the Leader and the Organization as Co-beneficiariesContextual Coaching Commandment 10: No Data Left BehindPart II: Enterprise-wide Coaching: Resource Guide for Over-, Under-, and Optimally-used Leadership Behaviors in Contextual CoachingEpilogue