This week Cal airs Pt. 1 of a 2 part interview with Michael Marx, of New Trails Coaching and Co-leader of the ICF Ethics Community of Practice.

Coaching Ethics: Interview with Michael Marx

  • Coach & Mentor Mentor Coach
  • Co-Chair of ICF
  • Member, ICF Independent Review Board
  • Member of 2019 Review board of ICF Code of Ethics
  • Past Presidient of Christian Coaches network International (2015-16)
  • Author: "Ethics and Risk Management for Christian Coaches" (2016)

Michael's contact info:

  • com
  • michael@newtrailscoaching.com

Questions:

  1. How did you come into coaching and what is your coaching specialty?

  2. Michael's differentiation:

    • Executive coaching-focuses on the executive as the representative of an organization/organism. The executive is the input/output person for all of the people.
    • Business coaching-focusing on one business person, perhaps their interactions, maybe their communication, such like that.
    • Life coaching-on their personal development

  3. Often a coaching call will touch on all three.

  4. What led to this specific interest in coaching ethics

  5. What were/are the ICF Ethics Subcommittee, the Ethics Community of Practice, and the Ethics Basecamp?
  6. Why are ethics important in coaching; why do we need an ethical code?

  7. Current Code of Ethics

  8. Definitions

  9. How do coaches interact ethically with the world & society?
  10. What are coaching conflicts of interest
  11. Ethical conduct with clients
  12. Confidential/Privacy

  13. Ethical Pledge

  14. ICF Independent Review Board

  15. Number of complaints so year

  16. Reasons for complaints

  17. Written or Oral Coaching Agreements?

Important contact information:

  • Ethics@coachfederation.org
  • Ethics Hotline 1.859.226.4245.

Part 2 Next week

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