CPQLTD Professional Glossary

A structured conversational partnership supporting awareness, choice and action without taking ownership of the client’s decision.

A practitioner who uses coaching skills within declared competence, professional boundaries and ethical requirements.

The person or team receiving coaching and retaining ownership of decisions and responsibility for choices.

An agreed period of professional work with a purpose, context, boundaries and reviewable outcomes.

An agreement defining goals, roles, confidentiality, fees, communication, cancellation and service scope.

The coach’s capacity to remain attentive, flexible and non-defensive during the session.

An increased ability to notice patterns, assumptions and options that were previously unclear.

Listening for meaning, context, tone and silence while checking understanding without imposing premature interpretation.

A concise, non-leading question that expands thinking, surfaces an assumption or turns awareness into choice.

Specific information or observation offered respectfully to support learning without judging personal worth.

Client-owned steps with timing, review criteria and accountability.

Reviewing what the client committed to and learned from action or non-action without punishment or rescuing.

Use of supportive psychological knowledge to understand behaviour and awareness without diagnosis, treatment or unheld licensure claims.

Noticing relationships among thoughts, interpretations, emotions and behaviour to expand choice.

Designing experiments, environments and cues that support new behaviour or reduce unwanted behaviour within non-clinical scope.

The nervous system’s capacity to change with experience and learning; used by CPQLTD as an educational concept without therapeutic claims.

A communication and self-development framework used in some coaching contexts; CPQLTD does not present it as medical treatment or a substitute for clinical evidence.

The capacity to revise assumptions and change strategy when new information or context emerges.

Motivation linked to meaning, choice and values rather than external reward or pressure alone.

The ability to notice one’s thoughts, emotions, biases and their influence on choices and behaviour.

Coaching within business, decision and leadership contexts while remaining distinct from technical consulting.

Coaching for leaders requiring clear organisational contracting, confidentiality and stakeholder management.

A practitioner qualified to design and deliver coach education and assess learning against defined standards.

A development process focused on coaching performance and competencies through review and feedback.

A regular space to review cases, ethics, practitioner impact, blind spots and professional learning.

Documented post-qualification learning that maintains competence, ethics and current practice.

The boundaries set by education, competence, law and contract on what a practitioner can safely provide.

Directing a client to another professional or service when needs exceed coaching scope or require different expertise.

Protecting client information from disclosure except with consent or a pre-explained legal/safety exception.

A situation where personal or organisational interests may affect objectivity or trust and require disclosure, management or recusal.

An additional relationship with a client that may increase exploitation, pressure or loss of objectivity.

A set of principles and conduct rules defining professional expectations and accountability mechanisms.

A professional status awarded after meeting education, experience, assessment and ethics requirements and maintained through renewal.

A document confirming completion of a programme, module or educational assessment and not automatically a professional credential.

A quality-assurance or recognition relationship applying to an organisation or programme and stated with its awarding body and scope.

Affiliation with a professional network or community with conditions and benefits separate from a credential or qualification.

A level in CPQLTD’s proprietary professional credential system based on education, practice, supervision and assessment evidence.

CPQLTD’s Coach Specialist education pathway; an advanced educational qualification, not an automatic professional credential.

CPQLTD’s integrated foundational Practitioner Coach diploma, distinct from the generic concept of continuing professional development hours.

CPQLTD’s Coaching & Psychological Guidance pathway with explicit coaching boundaries, referral and non-diagnosis requirements.

CPQLTD’s Advanced Coach Trainer pathway for designing and delivering coach education and group training.

The system connecting CPQLTD’s professional organisation, academy, standards, credentials, knowledge, research and community.

A CPQLTD professional community providing membership, networking and activities; membership does not equal professional credentialing.

A public mechanism for checking a certificate or credential using a number or code recorded in the registry.

A dated record of coaching hours, clients and work type used as evidence for credential application or renewal.

Review of a session or practice evidence against a available rubric measuring competencies and behaviours.

A documented commitment to read and follow the Code of Ethics and provide truthful information.

A coaching relationship between practitioner and individual client with agreed contract, confidentiality and goals.

A coaching process for a group requiring explicit safety, confidentiality and role agreements among participants.

Coaching delivered through digital channels with additional privacy, security and consent requirements.