{"id":7316,"date":"2017-08-14T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2022-09-08T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:00:18","slug":"ethics-in-coaching-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/ethics-in-coaching-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Pete Liska <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/\"><em>https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Untrained coaches and coaching clients alike may not know or be aware of the coaching Code of Ethics. Coaching clients also may not know to ask their coach or a potential coach if they have or adhere to a Code of Ethics or if they have completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">coaching certification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that there are many individuals calling themselves coaches without any formal coach training, and many who may not have or adhere to a Code of Ethics. What does this mean to a client?\u00a0 It means that the quality of coaching varies greatly.\u00a0\u00a0 Some \u201ccoaches\u201d without coach training may say and advertise that they are coaching when they are doing something completely different because they are unaware of the difference between coaching, consulting, or counseling.<\/p>\n<p>At the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\">Center for Coaching Certification<\/a> (CCC) the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/ethics\/code-of-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICF Code of Ethics<\/a> is covered in-depth.\u00a0 Those who complete CCC programs will be well versed in the ICF Code of Ethics, how it applies to coaching, and what it means to a client or potential client.<\/p>\n<p>What are the reasons having and being accountable to a Code of Ethic s is a good thing? Well, unqualified coaches not following or adhering to a Code of Ethics cause harm to their client and the coaching profession.\u00a0 If a client had a bad experience with an untrained coach, they may talk to others and tell them how bad their coaching experience was, which can deter others from approaching a coach.\u00a0 The ICF maintains a Code of Ethics in part so that the quality of ICF coaches meets an industry and professional standard. \u00a0The CCC adheres to and recommends all coaches also adhere to the ICF Code of Ethics in all areas of training, coaching, and coach support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pete Liska https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peteliska\/ Untrained coaches and coaching clients alike may not know or be aware of the coaching Code of Ethics. Coaching clients also &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131,471,16,40],"tags":[523,522,278,77,50,49,205,524],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-accountable","tag-ccc","tag-center-for-coaching-certification","tag-client","tag-coaching","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-icf","tag-professional-standard","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}