Life Coach Quiz | Life Coach Certification Institute

1. 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?

2. Coaches need to help clients explore both their successes and_____?

Their family

Their work

Their areas for growth

Their childhood

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. When the coach recognizes that there is a conflict of interest in the coaching relationship they should _______________.

Be open about it and discuss it with their client

Take notes about the conflict of interest

Discuss the conflict with their spouse

Stop seeing the client immediately

5. It’s important for a coach to have _____to give a client space to express themselves.

Doubt and questioning

Confrontation and debate

Empathy and acceptance

Excitement and laughter

6. Every coaching session should include ______________.

A coaching agreement

Review of the relevant research

A summary of what should be accomplished that day

Recognition of the client’s issues and their accomplishments

7. What is the difference between a coach and psychotherapist?

A coach and a psychotherapist are the same thing

Coaches deal with mental illness, psychotherapists do not

Psychotherapists focus on mental illness, coaches do not

Coaches dislike psychotherapy

8. Paying attention to body language, tone, pitch, and volume in coaching is ________.

Unnecessary

A lot of work

Repetitive with what they’re saying

Revealing of a deeper level of client communication

9. What role should a coach take with a client when setting and prioritizing goals?

Co-creating goals with the client and facilitating the client’s self-discovery of goals

Critiquing client goals

Being hands off when the client establishes what they want to work on

Being the boss and telling the client what their goals should be

10. Why is genuine concern about a client important?

Helps build trust

Helps coaches get more business

It helps the coach listen better

It reproduces relationships from the client’s past

Grade Exam

Practice Exam