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📩 This Week in AI: Track Client Progress, Manager Engagement is Down, Prompt of the Week

Another week, another AI insight to help you streamline, scale, and elevate your business!

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Stephanie Hutchinson
April 28, 2025

Hey, Coach!

Another week, another AI insight to help you streamline, scale, and elevate your business!

In today’s teachings:

  • How to: Track client progress and validate your impact

  • In the News: Engagement is down, here’s how coaches can respond

  • Coaching Prompt of the Week

HOW TO: TRACK CLIENT PROGRESS

How do you truly measure your clients’ growth over time?
Beyond intuition, how do you know they’re making real progress, and how do you validate that progress to decision-makers with tangible evidence?

One powerful approach: regularly survey your clients using consistent check-in questions. This helps you track their growth, tailor your coaching to the areas they need most support, and validate your impact.

Here are a few questions you can include:

  • What best describes your progress with asking for and receiving feedback? (Multiple choice scale)

  • How would you rate yourself when it comes to standing out or differentiating yourself? (Multiple choice scale)

  • What best describes your current comfort level with [insert your coaching focus area]? (Multiple choice scale)

  • What was your biggest success this week?

  • What was your biggest challenge this week?

These questions serve multiple purposes:

  • Show progress over time

  • Create visual reports using graphs and charts

  • Celebrate client wins and provide evidence of your effectiveness

  • Reveal areas to focus on next

We recommend using Jotform for this, thanks to its built-in reporting tools that make it easy to turn responses into polished visuals for clients and stakeholders.

IN THE NEWS: STATE OF GLOBAL WORKFORCE 2025

 📉 Global engagement is declining - and it is starting at the top.


Gallup’s latest 2025 report just dropped, and the headline is loud and clear: the global workforce is in trouble. Only 21% of employees are engaged, and manager engagement dropped by 3 full points. That might not sound like much, but here’s the kicker: 70% of team engagement is linked directly to their manager’s engagement.

If managers are disengaged, everyone suffers — and the ripple effect is showing up in burnout, absenteeism, turnover, and lost productivity ($438B globally, to be exact).

Where Does AI & Automation Fit In?

When used well, AI and automation can help managers do less admin and more actual leading, where they prefer to be anyways. Here’s how:

  • Automate admin like meeting notes, scheduling, and check-ins

  • Track team sentiment through pulse surveys

  • Use ChatGPT to roleplay tough conversations 

  • Support wellbeing and continuous learning and improvement with AI-powered nudges, reminders, or micro-learning

As coaches we can help managers move from reactive states to intentional leading, and use the tech tools available to protect their energy and increase their effectiveness with their team.

Coaching Prompt of the Week

Coaching Prompt of the Week:

“What’s one task draining your energy right now that AI or automation could take off your plate so you can focus on leading people, not managing tasks?”