COACHING PRINCIPLES EXAM SCRIPT
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
●● What makes coaching different from a casual chat?
Answer: Coaching is intentional and structured, using theory, technique,
questioning, reflection, and action planning to help the coachee make
progress.
●● What is the main purpose of coaching?
Answer: To help the coachee move toward desired change, improved
performance, skill development, wellbeing, or personal/professional
growth.
●● Who is the coachee?
Answer: The person receiving coaching, who is an active participant in
their own change process.
●● Who is responsible for the coachee's goals?
Answer: The coachee owns the goals; the coach supports and structures
the process.
●● What does collaborative mean in coaching?
, Answer: Coach and coachee work together without the coach
dominating or imposing answers.
●● What does goal-focused mean?
Answer: Coaching is directed toward something the coachee wants to
achieve, improve, understand, or change.
●● Why is coaching not just advice-giving?
Answer: Coaching helps the coachee think through their own situation
and develop their own options.
●● What is the danger of telling too quickly?
Answer: The coach may solve the wrong problem, reduce coachee
ownership, or make the session about the coach's ideas.
●● What does 'ask, don't tell' mean?
Answer: The coach uses questions to help the coachee think and
generate options instead of giving advice.
●● Is coaching therapy?
Answer: No, coaching works with non-clinical goals and is not therapy.
●● When should a coach refer rather than coach?
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
●● What makes coaching different from a casual chat?
Answer: Coaching is intentional and structured, using theory, technique,
questioning, reflection, and action planning to help the coachee make
progress.
●● What is the main purpose of coaching?
Answer: To help the coachee move toward desired change, improved
performance, skill development, wellbeing, or personal/professional
growth.
●● Who is the coachee?
Answer: The person receiving coaching, who is an active participant in
their own change process.
●● Who is responsible for the coachee's goals?
Answer: The coachee owns the goals; the coach supports and structures
the process.
●● What does collaborative mean in coaching?
, Answer: Coach and coachee work together without the coach
dominating or imposing answers.
●● What does goal-focused mean?
Answer: Coaching is directed toward something the coachee wants to
achieve, improve, understand, or change.
●● Why is coaching not just advice-giving?
Answer: Coaching helps the coachee think through their own situation
and develop their own options.
●● What is the danger of telling too quickly?
Answer: The coach may solve the wrong problem, reduce coachee
ownership, or make the session about the coach's ideas.
●● What does 'ask, don't tell' mean?
Answer: The coach uses questions to help the coachee think and
generate options instead of giving advice.
●● Is coaching therapy?
Answer: No, coaching works with non-clinical goals and is not therapy.
●● When should a coach refer rather than coach?
