{"id":8512,"date":"2019-11-07T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:09:09","slug":"a-gift-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/a-gift-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift: What do you think?  Ethical Challenges Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coaching client offers their box seat tickets to a big game to the coach.\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. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8513 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/03B71755.jpg\" alt=\"A Gift: What do you think?\" width=\"108\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Possible Responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coach declines the tickets.<\/li>\n<li>The coach accepts the tickets.<\/li>\n<li>The coach says they will take the tickets if they can pay for them.<\/li>\n<li>The coach barters a free coaching session in exchange for the tickets.<\/li>\n<li>The coach explains accepting the tickets could be perceived as a conflict of interest and invites the client to discuss implications and set boundaries.<\/li>\n<li>The coach explains they have a policy of not accepting gifts over a pre-determined amount.<\/li>\n<li>What else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refer to the ICF Code of Ethics:<\/p>\n<p>15)\u00a0Disclose to my client and the sponsor(s) all anticipated compensation from third parties that I may receive for referrals of clients or pay to receive clients.<\/p>\n<p>16)\u00a0Honor an equitable coach\/client relationship, regardless of the form of compensation.<\/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: I received a surprise gift of baseball tickets from my realtor after I referred my client to her. Must I tell my client I received these tickets?<br \/>\nA: If the gift was not anticipated and happens after the referral is made, no disclosure is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>How do you recommend it be handled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coaching client offers their box seat tickets to a big game to the coach.\u00a0 The coach has completed their coach training and is a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[1002,523,77,48,1003,85,49,1004,205,432],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-a-gift","tag-accountable","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-federation","tag-coach-training","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-ethical-challenges-series","tag-icf","tag-sponsor","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","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=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}