{"id":8505,"date":"2019-10-31T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:09:53","slug":"ethical-challenge-benefitting-from-the-relationship-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/ethical-challenge-benefitting-from-the-relationship-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Challenge: Benefitting from the Relationship What do you think?  Ethical Challenges Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coach also works as a trainer teaching communication skills.\u00a0 The coaching client hires trainers for programs inside their company.\u00a0 The coach has completed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training.html\">coach training<\/a> and is a member of the ICF and accountable to the Code of Ethics.\u00a0 Can the coach solicit that business?\u00a0 Can the coach provide the training if asked by the client? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8506 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/02F12753.jpg\" alt=\"Ethical Challenge: Benefitting from the Relationship\" width=\"126\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Possible Responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coach informs the client that they do not want to benefit from the coaching relationship and does not take on the additional business.<\/li>\n<li>The coach discusses the potential conflict of interest with the client and asks the client how they want to handle it.<\/li>\n<li>The coach reflects on their own ability to provide their best as a coach whether or not they are hired for the training and ensures they are fully present for the client when coaching.<\/li>\n<li>The coach thanks the client for the referral and talks about keeping the coaching relationship separate from any potential training work.<\/li>\n<li>What else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refer to the ICF Code of Ethics:<\/p>\n<p>13) Seek to be conscious of any conflict or potential conflict of interest, openly disclose any such conflict and offer to remove myself when a conflict arises.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q: If I have a multi-level marketing business, can I sell my product to my coaching clients?<br \/>\nA: The coaching relationship might be impaired if you sell other products to the client, as the client might perceive undue pressure to purchase from you.<\/p>\n<p>How do you recommend it be handled?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coach also works as a trainer teaching communication skills.\u00a0 The coaching client hires trainers for programs inside their company.\u00a0 The coach has completed their &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,471,16,40],"tags":[1000,48,85,50,177,49,994,205],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-benefitting-from-the-relationship","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-relationship","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-ethical-challenge","tag-icf","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","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=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}