Life Coach Quiz | Life Coach Certification Institute

1. A client comes into a session with a coach and is telling the coach how excited they are about their new job. But their voice is quiet and sad sounding and their word choice doesn’t sound excited. What should the coach do?

Confront them about how the words and the behavior don’t match

Ask them what their problem is

Tell them that they should be more excited

Change the subject to something more interesting

2. What should a coach focus on more than anything?

The story’s the clients tell

The client’s work life

The client’s family relationships

The client’s beliefs, thoughts, and perspectives

3. 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

4. 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

5. A coach comes home from work and tells their spouse all about how a client came in and is having an affair with his best friend’s wife. What ethical principle has the coach violated?

Confidentiality

Honesty

Conflict of Interest

Contradictory information

6. When a client brings in many different issues to the table, the coach should pick the topic that ________________.

The coach has most expertise in

That the client would like to start with

That seems like it would be easiest to solve

That the coach had just read an article about

7. Awareness is important for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Helps client see when they’re stuck in one way of perceiving the world

Helps clients see the difference between belief and facts

Helps clients notice their thoughts and behaviors

Helps clients see that their problems are everyone else’s fault

8. A coach should not be focused on making sure that sessions focus on the client’s issues and not __________.

The client’s relationships

The client’s goals

The coach’s problems

The coach’s encouragement

9. Coaches should focus on what type of goals?

Long term goals only

Specific goals that the client brings to each session only

A balance between long term goals and session specific goals

The coach should not focus on goals

10. 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

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