How to Get the Most Out of Coaching
A Client’s Guide for Optimizing the Coaching Experience
By Karen Davis & Alex Mill
“If you’ve already been smart enough to hire a coach, I hope you’re smart enough to read this book. If you don’t, you risk wasting a powerful opportunity.”
About The Book
One-on-one coaching can transform both your career and personal life. Whether you want to be successful at work, deepen your relationships with the people who matter most, or break free from unproductive patterns, working with a coach can help you create the future you’ve always wanted.
That being said, coaching isn’t magic. All too often, people have the desire to improve but fail to achieve the exponential growth they deserve. It isn’t because their goals are unattainable or that they aren’t getting the right support from their coach; it’s due to a lack of basic understanding in how to get the most out of coaching. Simple tips and tricks can make a world of difference.
Over the past decade, highly sought coaches Karen Davis and Alex Mill have partnered with a wide range of clients, from successful entrepreneurs and Fortune 100 executives to individuals simply looking for more peace and balance in a hectic world. They’ve seen people surpass all of their goals and expectations while others took longer than they should have to make any real progress.
In this book, Davis and Mill present a straightforward guide to ensure that you get the highest possible ROI from your one-on-one coaching relationship. You’ll learn to drive the most value from your sessions, easily carve out time to take action, and effectively assess your progress and course correct—if needed.
This book will shift your perception of coaching, enabling you to attain greater personal fulfilment and immediate life-changing results.
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About The Authors
Karen Davis, Executive Coach
After 25 years in managerial and executive leadership roles in the business-to-business technology and services space, Karen made the decision to change her life by working to transform the lives of others. Consequently, she has been coaching, consulting, and facilitating leadership workshops for individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 100 companies for well over a decade now—and she is a Professionally Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Today, her practice is mostly one-on-one deep coaching with executives, entrepreneurs, and executive coaches. Along the way, she’s learned from some of the very best in the coaching business, including Steve Chandler, Rich Litvin, Steve Hardison, Byron Katie, Werner Erhard, Julio Olalla, and George and Linda Pransky. She also coauthored two other books—When All Boats Rise: 12 Coaches on Service as the Heart of a Thriving Practice and Unconventional Wisdom: Stories Beyond the Mind to Awaken the Heart—that focus on leading and serving.
Alex Mill, Zen Life Coach
Alex trained at a Zen Buddhist monastery for nearly 14 years, during which time he spent more than 10,000 hours in meditation. There, he learned how his own thoughts kept him stuck and how he could access freedom to authentically succeed in all areas of his life. When he ultimately left the monastery, he took many of the teachings with him and actually built them into his own coaching practice. Today, he focuses on helping people achieve success both powerfully and peacefully. The idea for this book was born out of Alex’s understanding of how resistance and sabotage can prevent people from getting what they want, and how to overcome that. Alex is also the author of several books: A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons; Meditation and Reinventing Yourself; Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volumes One–Three); Practicing Presence: Learning the Art of Directing the Attention!