COURSE CEIQ

Coaching Ethics IQ

This course focuses on increasing your Coaching Ethics knowledge by having a clear understanding of the ICF and BCC code of ethics and their application to various coaching specific situations.

The most important part of coaching ethics is how to apply the code to your own coaching business practices and how having a solid coaching agreement can protect you and your clients.

You will learn how coaches have been getting in ethical hot water, what they have done to get there, so you don’t.

Understanding ethics also means understanding yourself, how you are currently operating, and what might need to be tweaked to operate from an ethically clean place.

Things are rapidly changing in our growing industry. As the coaching profession’s visibility and exposure increases so does the need to operate ethically and protect ourselves from ethical complaints.

Learning from this Course includes:

• Ethics and why it’s so important
  • Ethical Decision-Making: Approaches using an Ethical Decision-Making Model
  • Understanding how your own filters and rationalizations could lead to an ethical complaint being filed
• How a lack of clarity around Ethical Gray Areas & Ethical Blind Spots can turn into a breach of ethics code
  • Role of The Code of Ethics and the nuances to be aware of
  • ICF Code of Ethics – recent changes & why
  • Review ICF & BCC Codes the differences and how to apply the codes in challenging coaching situations
• Review of the various types of Coaching and the hot spots for each:
  • Life Coaching
  • Health & Wellness
  • Business Coaching
  • Career Coaching
  • Organizational – Leadership/Executive Coaching
• What Type of Ethics Complaints are being filed
  • How to Stay Out of Ethical Hot water
  • Understanding Ethical Conduct Review Process and how to get through them with grace and ease
  • Insider Tips on How to Protect Yourself
• Contract and Agreements
  • Important ethical topics to including in your agreements
  • Sample Coaching Agreement covering all the ethical and legal aspects of a business contract important in working individual clients

Fieldwork: Each week students will work in a 1 hour peer group discussing an ethical dilemma’s determining breach of ethics code and if there is a way to course correct if you should land in a similar situation.

Frequency: This course is offered two to three times a year, depending on level of interest.

Ethics Expert and Instructor Tina Elliot, MBA, PCC, BCC is a past longtime member of both the ICF Global Ethics and Standards Committee & The ICF Independent Review Board and continues to work with the ICF on their Code of Ethics updates

Course Prerequisites

None

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