Foundations of Coaching Practice Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of establishing a coaching agreement at the start of an engagement?
Answer: To clarify mutual expectations, roles, boundaries, and the focus of the coaching relationship
A coaching agreement creates shared understanding of how the relationship will function, what success looks like, and each party's responsibilities.
A recovery coach who consistently feels emotionally drained after sessions should first:
Answer: Seek supervision or peer consultation and engage in regular self-care practices
Compassion fatigue and burnout are real risks; supervision, consultation, and self-care are the professional response to chronic depletion.
The ethical principle of 'fidelity' in recovery coaching means:
Answer: The coach keeps promises, honors commitments, and is trustworthy
Fidelity refers to the coach's duty to be reliable, keep promises, and maintain integrity in the coaching relationship.
Which coaching behavior is MOST likely to undermine a client's intrinsic motivation?
Answer: Offering rewards or praise contingent on meeting coach-set benchmarks
External rewards tied to coach-driven benchmarks can replace and erode intrinsic motivation, a core concept from self-determination theory.
In a recovery coaching session, silence is best understood as:
Answer: An opportunity for the client to process thoughts and emotions
Intentional silence gives clients space to reflect and often precedes important insights; coaches should resist the urge to fill every pause.
Which of the following correctly describes the difference between a coaching goal and a coaching outcome?
Answer: Goals are what the client works toward; outcomes are the measurable results achieved
Goals represent the client's intended direction, while outcomes are the concrete results that emerge from pursuing those goals.
A recovery coach is working with a client from a cultural background different from the coach's own. The most important first step is to:
Answer: Approach the client with cultural humility, curiosity, and willingness to learn from them directly
Cultural humility — acknowledging one's own limitations and centering the client as the expert on their own cultural context — is foundational to culturally responsive coaching.