Client Progress Report

Scope first. This is a coaching report, not a clinical assessment. It summarises session notes and tracking data the coach already holds for behaviour-change purposes. It does not diagnose, does not give medical or nutritional advice, and does not replace a clinician or dietitian. If a report turns up data suggesting something outside coaching scope — significant weight loss without intent, persistent low mood, a metric that's moved the wrong way medically — the coach debrief flags it as a referral question, not a coaching one.

Inside scope, the skill turns scattered inputs into a clean report in a fixed structure. The Headline — one paragraph that leads with the most meaningful progress, honest and grounded, no hype. Your Wins — minimum four to five, both quantitative and qualitative, including the ones the client has overlooked (language shifts, habit consistency, non-scale victories). By The Numbers — a tidy table with start, current, change, target. What's Working — the specific strategies driving results, named so the client knows what to protect. What We're Working On — areas needing attention, framed as opportunities not failures. Focus For Next Period — two or three specific goals. Coach's Note — a genuine personal acknowledgement that references something specific from the sessions.

The skill handles sparse data honestly. If a client hasn't tracked consistently, it doesn't fabricate trends — it acknowledges the gaps, uses qualitative session observations to fill in, and recommends a tracking change for the next period. It runs three analyses before writing: trend (positive, flat, declining at the week-over-week level, not daily noise), win identification (including the non-obvious ones), and barrier pattern recognition (is the same Thursday-evening pattern recurring, has the barrier shifted from motivation to time management — that shift is itself progress).

Two outputs every time: the client-facing report (ready to send) and a private coach debrief. The debrief answers four questions: is the methodology working as designed or does it need adjusting, is this client on track for original goals or should goals be revised, are there red flags suggesting drop-out or referral, and what's the single specific change for next period. Cadence: midpoint and end for 4-8 week programmes, monthly for 12+ week programmes, quarterly for ongoing retainers. Sporadic reports feel like an afterthought; regular reports feel like a professional service.