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4 Ethical Responsibilities of A Coach
A code of ethics is a tool that establishes minimum standards. It sets a code of conduct for coaches as they advance in their careers. It’s a tool that inspires coaches to share shared beliefs and do their best work.
Coaches exhibit proper respect for all people’s human rights, integrity, and worth. Individual rights to privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, and autonomy are respected, but they are conscious that legal and other responsibilities can create inconsistency and conflict with the exercise of these rights. Coaches are keen to learn more about cultural, person, and position disparities, such as those arising from age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status.
Here are 4 ethical principles that each and every coach follows:
Competence
One view is that humans have an innate ability to discern right from wrong and, therefore, can choose through free will to act both ethically and unethically. Ethical competence is the pursuit of information and action that distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable actions.
Coaches must follow high ethical competence in their practise. Since the coach is there to support the whole team, if they find one person is out of sync and coach them, it may interrupt the team’s ability to work.
The human quest for knowledge and action that distinguishes right and wrong actions, the touchstone of ethics, is at the heart of ethical competence. As a result, an ethically competent individual is one who can differentiate between right and wrong by natural or taught actions and acts accordingly.
It is critical that the coach maintains transparency and consistency about the services provided. Coaching is a type of advanced development aimed at achieving advanced results. The coach, as in all coaching engagements, ensures that the responsibilities are clearly defined.
Integrity
The second ethical responsibility of a coach is to display integrity. Representing themselves in a truthful and equitable manner, helps coaches in recognising their own competencies and weaknesses.
Coaches tend to be conscious of their own beliefs, values, desires, and limits, as well as the impact these have on their job. They make every effort to explain the positions they play for relevant parties and to behave in compliance with those roles, to the extent possible.
Coaches are supposed to be trustworthy, genuine, and honourable in their interactions with others. Coaches with a high level of self-awareness and the ability to objectively focus on how their experiences affect their relationships with others are best positioned to act on these beliefs.
Professional Responsibility
Coaches should follow ethical principles that reflect well on both the individual coach and the profession as a whole. Coaches have a special responsibility to obey and promote the interests of individuals who are disadvantaged or dependent and unable to defend their own rights. They should communicate with others in such a way that their clients’ reputation is maintained, and they should cultivate mutual support among fellow coaches, officials, and clients.
Respect for People’s Rights and Dignity
Coaches should treat clients with dignity and respect, taking into account cultural nuances, their own cultural context and prejudices, as well as the client’s right to autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality.
The simple presumption that each individual has value and is deserving of respect is at the heart of this concept. Coaches must behave with respect for their participants—
i. Do not judge participants’ worth as individuals based on their gender, ethnicity, place of birth, athletic ability, colour, sexual orientation, faith, political views, socioeconomic status, marital status, age, or any other factor;
ii. Be accountable for upholding and promoting the interests of all individuals.
This is achieved by the establishment and implementation of procedures for confidentiality, informed participation, joint decision-making, and fair and equitable practice.
Coaches are solely responsible for their own ethical conduct. In all facets of their personal and professional lives, ethical dilemmas – or “ethical moments of decision” – will eventually occur. When approached correctly, ethical dilemmas will help develop personally and professionally. This is because they make them conscious of what is morally correct or incorrect.
If as a coach you find yourself thinking about practical choices you need to make in your practise as a professional, this is usually a positive thing. A balanced level of concern demonstrates the dedication to the customers and the desire to provide them with services that are correct and suitable for them.
