The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook A Guide to Developing Ethical Maturity in Practice

What does it mean to be ethical as a coach? Just how ethical are you? How does ethics influence your coaching and how do you know if you are engaging in ethical practice? This important and eye-opening volume provides critical insight from the thought leaders in coaching across a full range of ethical issues. Presented in four parts, this new handbook works to guide the reader towards ethical maturity to strengthen their practice, though examination of theory and thought provoking practice examples. Part 1, Foundations of Ethics in Coaching, provides a detailed overview of the basic principles of ethical coaching. Part 2, Ethics in Coaching Practice, details specific examples of where you will need to think ethically and be guided by good ethics within your practice. Part 3, Pushing the Boundaries of Ethical Thinking in Coaching, dives deeper into topics such as race, managing mental health, the environment and marketing. Part 4 consists of twelve case studies which encourage you to think about putting the theory of the book into practice. The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook will provide ideal support to students, practitioners and coach educators looking to deepen, broaden and enhance their ethical coaching practice.

Part One: Foundations of ethics in coaching Ethical coaching and its relationships Wendy-Ann Smith & Carrie Arnold What is ethics and how does it apply to coaching? Pauline Fatien and David Clutterbuck Ethics and the professional coaching bodies Bob Garvey & Paul Stokes Exploring ethical codes Paul Stokes, Angela Hill, Kristin Kelly Ethical decision-making frameworks Jonathan Passmore & Jule Deges What might be an evidence base for coaching - ethical issues David Lane and Sarah Corrie Legal considerations of ethical decision making in coaching Kevin Rogers Part Two: Ethics in coaching practice The psychological contract in coaching Pam McLean Supervision ethics Julie Allan & Lise Lewis Ethics in team coaching Peter Hawkins & Catherine Carr Ethical issues in note taking and record keeping in coaching Christiana Iordanou, Rachel Hawley, Ioanna Iordanou Ethics in using psychometrics in coaching Catherine Steele Ethics in mental health and suicide management in coaching Rosie Evans-Krimme and Jonathan Passmore Ethics of multi-party contracting in coaching Yi-Ling Lai & Eve Turner Ethics in transnational assignments in coaching Philippe Rosinski & Liz Pavese Part Three: Pushing the boundaries of conventional ethical thinking in coaching Positive ethical practice for coaching excellence and wellbeing Annalise Roache, Aaron Jarden, Tayyab Rashid & Tim Lomas Ethics in education and the development of coaches Bob Garvey & Andrea Giraldez-Hayes Ethics, wisdom and adult development in coaching Sarah Smith and Roger Bretherton Ethics and culture in coaching - moving beyond a universal western ethical code David A Lane, Dumisani Magadlela, Ivan Yong Wei Kit & Silvina Spiegel Race: Ethical Perspectives on Equity-based Coaching Terrance Maltbia & David Prior An ethical exit strategy for dealing with incapacity and unexpected death David Lane & Eve Turner Ethics and the ecological environment in coaching: searching for a new paradigm Michael Cavanagh & Eve Turner Ethics and the digital environment in coaching Marc Bürgi, Mona Ashok & David Clutterbuck Ethical Considerations for the Use of Multisource Feedback in Coaching Angela M. Passarelli Choose me! Ethics in the promotion of coaching Francine Campone Part Four: Case studies A series of 12 case studies for coach reflection and discussion Intimacy in the Coaching Engagement Kristin Kelly Ethical dilemmas faced by postgraduate level teachers of coaching Alexandra Morgan Coaching: Developmental tool or organisational status quo? Stephen Gresty & Eric Mellet Where are the loyalties in the executive coaching relationship? Stephen Murphy Influence of the boss in a hierarchical culture Ng Phek Yen Ethical challenges across cultures in team coaching Ng Phek Yen Ethical dilemmas with recording coaching sessions Eve Turner Ethics and the internal coach Katharine St John-Brooks Emotional Entanglement in the Coaching Engagement Lisa Sansom Widening the lens of the RECording button Hellen Hettinga Coach Qualification Representation Lisa Sansom Diversity Blind Spots, Token Inclusion and Unspoken Biases in a Coaching Panel Dumisani Magadlela

Wendy-Ann Smith is an independent Coaching Psychologist and Project Consultant. She is an editor of ‘Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace’ and co-founder of the Coaching Ethics Forum. Prof Jonathan Passmore is a professor of coaching at Henley Business School and Senior Vice President at CoachHub. Eve Turner's journey has encompassed classical music, journalism and senior leadership in the BBC, and she is now a multi-award-winning coach, supervisor, researcher and author, and an active volunteer in the profession Yi-Ling Lai (PhD, CPsychol), is a Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London David Clutterbuck is one of the earliest pioneers of modern coaching and mentoring