{"id":305,"date":"2011-12-01T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coachingtree.com\/branchingout\/?p=305"},"modified":"2019-07-04T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:36:30","slug":"the-dog-ate-my-homework-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/the-dog-ate-my-homework-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly Predicament:  The &#8220;Dog Ate My Homework&#8221; Client"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/detour-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"Detour sign\" class=\"wp-image-875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/detour.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/detour-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/detour-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/detour-660x427.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>You know the one. He seems like a great client &#8211; playful, punctual, open to new perspectives. Just one snag: he consistently fails to complete assignments he helped co-design. Now what?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; you say to yourself, &#8220;I could fire him. But this is the only hitch in our alliance. Maybe it&#8217;ll work itself out.&#8221; Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast &#8211; there&#8217;s a more co-active approach to this. After all, if you want your client to walk his talk, you&#8217;ll have to walk yours.<span class=\"wp-emember-warning-msgbox\"><span class=\"wp-emember-warning-msgbox-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-eMember\/images\/warn_msg.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/span><span class=\"wp-emember-warning-msgbox-text\"><a  href =\"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/join-us\/\"  ><b>This content is for members only.<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"eMember-clear-float\"><\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the one. He seems like a great client &#8211; playful, punctual, open to new perspectives. Just one snag: he consistently fails to complete assignments he helped co-design. Now what? &#8220;Well,&#8221; you say to yourself, &#8220;I could fire him. But this is the only hitch in our alliance. Maybe it&#8217;ll work itself out.&#8221; Sound\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/the-dog-ate-my-homework-client\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[14,19,11],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-tips","tag-clients","tag-techniques","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingtree.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}