Ethics
All the professional bodies have their own ethics codes – ICF, EMCC, Association for Coaching … and then you add that to the complexity of working in organisations where there are lots of questions and no easy answers.
2021 Ethics Special
This is a brilliant bumper episode from The Coaching Inn
Ethicability by Roger Steare
Everyone should read this - there’s just enough in it to really help us ask the ethical questions.
Masterclass 2.8 Ethics
Ethics is in everything, listen to this masterclass with Claire Pedrick MCC.
In conversation with Kirsty Elderton - Disaster Ethics
Claire Pedrick MCC is talking to Kirsty Elderton about disaster ethics
What do you need to be thinking about?
Scenario, Clients, Action & Reflection
Other useful Resources
3D Ideas 804: Fishing Boy
Claire writes: "I love this picture of a man and a child fishing. Their proximity and focus on discovering something together - even though the father may be an expert fisherman - models well what we are learning about effective conversations at work. Where and how we...
3D Ideas 803: Coaching and Dementia
Claire writes: "It's great to get feedback from people on our courses. Listen to what happened in someone's 10 minute conversation. This was in church. It could equally have been at the GP's surgery or with a neighbour. 'You may think that the end of a church service...
3D Ideas 802: Completely Lost
Claire writes: "As professionals - in whatever field we work in - we learn that we need to know what we are doing. What I continue to learn is that I almost never know what we are doing in a conversation, and my role is to be brave and hold my nerve. We spend several...
3D Ideas 801: Why we don’t like the listening word
Claire writes: "We have just acquired an automatic car and early on, there were a fair number of times when I tried to change gear with the brake... until I learned to perch my left leg right out of the way (thanks to a top tip from someone in the back!). It takes...
3D Ideas 800: 18 Seconds
Claire writes: "Research into the conversations doctors have with patients says that on average they listen to a patient for 18 seconds before the expert in them interrupts. Tom Peters, in an insightful 3 minute video, suggests that habit goes much wider than the...
3D Ideas 799: Laundry Basket
Claire writes: "Alan describes the conversations we have as a place to help someone sort through their mountain of laundry. The role of the coach - and indeed the mentor, supervisor or manager (usually) is not to wash their clothes - but to support someone else to...
3D Ideas 798: Backstitch
Claire writes: "Sewing. As you begin to hand sew and pass a needle through thick fabric, you can never be quite sure where the needle will come up - until you see the point coming through and decide whether to keep pulling it out, or reposition it. The same is true of...
3D Ideas 797: Anywhere
Sam writes: "This morning I walked through the hospital with a senior nurse, a walk that takes around 5 minutes. He shared with me work he was involved with to support the well documented NHS winter pressures. He told me about a system that nobody really understood...
3D Ideas 796: Suggestible
Claire writes: "I'm just beginning to realise that the questions we ask to open conversations could be perceived as suggestible: What would you like to think about (... because I'm assuming we will be thinking as well as talking...) What would you like to be different...