Building a Leader-Leader Relationship by Giving 100% with Karen Davis

Karen Davis is an executive coach, author, and speaker. After 25 years in managerial and executive leadership roles in B2B tech and services, Karen changed her life by working to transform the lives of others. Karen’s practice focuses on one-on-one coaching with executives, entrepreneurs, and other executive coaches. Alongside Alex Mill, Karen authored How to Get the Most Out of Coaching: A Client’s Guide for Optimizing the Coaching Experience.

Karen joins me today to reveal the characteristics that make a person coachable and outline the wisdom of her book, How to Get the Most Out of Coaching. She highlights the differences among coaching, consulting, and therapy, and discusses how coaches can align their goals with a client’s consultant or therapist. She also explains why coaches need to clearly define and maintain their professional self while coaching clients, and discusses why it’s important for clients to be at 100% during sessions.

 

“When coaches and clients are both at their 100%, that isn’t a leader-follower relationship, but a leader-leader.” - Karen Davis

 

Today on Mastering Midlife:

How the book, How to Get the Most Out of Coaching, was conceived and born Why coaches should teach their clients how to get the most out of their coaching sessions Why coaching clients need to be opinionated What separates coaching from consulting and therapy The difference between the professional and social self and why Karen doesn’t take her clients out to lunch How to navigate the differences among coaching, consulting, and therapy with your coaching client

 

Resources Mentioned:

The Zen Life

 

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