Life Coach Quiz | Life Coach Certification Institute

1. It’s important for clients to utilize ______ in session so that they can get immediate feedback and support.

Information

Goals

Time management

Behavioral strategies

2. Coaches should help clients experiment with ________ to push the boundaries of what they thought was possible in their lives.

Actions

Styles

Relationships

Words

3. A client comes in with an issue and during the session comes up with several new ideas for how they can approach this issue. What should the coach do?

Ignore their ideas

Tell the client that although they could follow their own ideas that they should really do what the coach says

Integrate the client’s ideas with the coaches ideas to co-create solutions

Stop problem solving and focus on the problem

4. It’s important for clients to utilize different sources of __________ to grow on all fronts.

Knowledge and wisdom

Income

Action

Enjoyment

5. When a client is discussing an issue but the coach suspects that there is more to the issue than the client is saying, what should the coach do?

Give the client an ultimatum “be honest with me, or I can’t be your coach”

Tell the client that you have problems with people who are dishonest

Tell the client what you think is going on

Ask the client if you can delve a little deeper into the issue explaining that you think there may be more to it than is currently being discussed

6. Which of the following is NOT an ethical principle important to coaching?

Setting up a coaching agreement before sessions

No sexual relationships with clients

Keep client information confidential

Refuse service to people you don’t like

7. Which is an example of an open-ended question?

Did you have a good week?

Tell me more about what’s been going on for you this week?

How are you today?

I can’t believe how hard you’ve had it lately, can you?

8. Active listening is ______________.

Being fully present and completely attentive to what the client is saying

Doing activities while the client is speaking

Making sure to be an active participant in the discussion between coach and client

Getting excited when the client tells you good news

9. You should help clients focus on their _______ with questions rather than staying stuck in the past.

Future goals

Word choice

Failures

Results

10. A client comes into session and has not done any work on their goals from the following week. What is the coach’s responsibility?

To tell the client they did a good job

To get angry with the client

To confront the client about their lack of striving on their goals in supportive ways

To ignore the issue and continue the session as though the goals were never set the week before

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