Assuming the people you're training are relative newbies and you decide to go with the flow and do what The Man says, you should be able to monitor progress by a few of the key lifts that you come back to every few sessions.
You need to know that they have progressed, not that they are progressing. If they go up 5lbs or 1 rep in the bench press in one week, you still don't know if they just tried harder because you asked them to try for more. If they were beat after work and couldn't hit as many reps as last week, they didn't necessarily regress, they just didn't have the energy or focus this week.
One benefit of a good trainer is the ability to help them judge their efforts and work at their best level on any given day.
Having a monthly (or so) repeat workout that you use to test progress will also be a more dramatic example to him about how much stronger he is.
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