Imagine this dilemma:\u00a0 You are hired by a company to coach an employee.\u00a0 After working with the employee, your coaching client, for several months you learn they are dating a co-worker.\u00a0 You are aware the company has a policy against dating co-workers.\u00a0 Then to further complicate things, you learn that this relationship is negatively impacting productivity on the job.\u00a0 What should you do as a coach?<\/p>\n
One consideration is whether or not to disclose the situation to the sponsor or the company.\u00a0 Ideally before beginning to coach, you established the parameters of confidentiality with both the sponsor and your client so that whether or not this is disclosed is pre-determined.\u00a0 If not (yikes), then refer to your Code of Ethics<\/a> for guidance.\u00a0 As a side, there are coaches who do not have a Code of Ethics and have not received training on ethics so in that case, the process becomes blurry and opens up liability issues.<\/p>\n