CLC Study Guide 2026

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📋 CLC Exam Format at a Glance

Questions

90 min

Time Limit

70.00%

Passing Score

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📚 CLC Topics to Study (89)

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✍️ Sample CLC Questions & Answers

1. What is the ethical significance of obtaining informed consent from a coaching client?

✓ It ensures clients understand the nature, scope, and limitations of coaching before agreeing to engage

Informed consent ensures clients make autonomous decisions about engaging in coaching with full understanding of what it involves and what it does not.

2. A coach is asked to provide coaching services that include psychological assessments they are not licensed to administer. What should they do?

✓ Decline that component and refer the client to a licensed psychologist for assessments

Coaches must operate within their professional scope; licensed psychological assessments require appropriate credentials the coach may not hold.

3. What does it mean for a coach to 'champion' the client?

✓ Believe in the client's potential and communicate that confidence, especially when the client doubts themselves

Championing means the coach holds a strong belief in the client's capacity to succeed and reflects that confidence back, supporting the client through self-doubt.

4. A leadership coach discovers their client is involved in financial fraud that harms third parties. What is the most ethically appropriate first step?

✓ Explore the issue within the coaching relationship and encourage the client to take corrective action

Coaches should first address the issue within the relationship, encouraging the client to act responsibly, while being aware of any legal reporting obligations.

5. In a quality improvement cycle for a coaching practice, what does the 'Check' phase of PDCA specifically involve?

✓ Comparing actual outcomes against expected outcomes from the implemented change

The Check phase of PDCA involves comparing actual results against the predicted outcomes to determine if the change worked.

6. A leader wants to measure employee engagement as a KPI. Which approach best captures this metric?

✓ Using a validated engagement survey combined with voluntary turnover rate

Combining a validated engagement survey with turnover data provides both subjective perception and objective behavioral evidence of engagement levels.

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