Welcome to "The coach within," where transformation begins from the inside out. In this crucial episode, your host Coach Jedi dives deep into the ICF Code of Ethics, focusing intensely on its four Core Values: Professionalism, Collaboration, Humanity, and Equity. This discussion is essential for coaches, leaders, and anyone on a journey of personal growth, offering clarity, sparking insight, and bringing you closer to your purpose.

And here's a bonus: This episode includes challenging sample questions to test your knowledge of these critical ethical concepts, perfect for self-assessment and refining your understanding of the ICF Core Values and ethical principles. This is especially valuable if you're preparing for ICF credentials like the ACC, PCC, or MCC exams, where ethics comprises a significant portion of the test!

Learn why ICF Core Values are the foundational framework for understanding the entire Code of Ethics, ethical principles, and standards of conduct. We emphasize their importance for guiding all ethical reasoning and decision-making, with all values and principles being equally important, supporting one another, and aspirational.

We break down each core value, providing definitions and practical insights:

• Professionalism: A commitment to a coaching mindset and professional quality that encompasses responsibility, respect, integrity, competence, and excellence. This includes being true and accurate in your statements (e.g., representing yourself as a "coach in training" if not credentialed). We discuss the importance of lifelong professional learning and making clear, accurate representations in all professional interactions, prohibiting misrepresentations like guaranteeing earnings or offering kickbacks for referrals.
• Collaboration: A commitment to developing social connection and community building. This involves working collaboratively, fostering joint creativity, partnering with diverse social identity groups, and cooperating with other ICF professionals, associations, and coaching organizations.
• Humanity: A commitment to being humane, kind, compassionate, and respectful to others. This value encourages accepting imperfections as an opportunity to spread a culture of openness and self-acceptance, continuously seeking self-awareness, owning mistakes, and avoiding any communication that suggests superiority (e.g., using grand titles like "Dr. Coach" to clients).
• Equity: A commitment to using a coaching mindset to explore and understand the needs of others, creating equality for all. This means recognizing and respecting all identity groups, treating everyone with dignity, bringing awareness to conscious and unconscious biases, and maintaining equality in all coaching relationships (coach-client, trainer-student, mentor-coach, supervisor-coach).

This episode also highlights the "do good principle" for navigating challenging situations and making courageous decisions. Whether you are preparing for your ICF credentials or simply aiming to deepen your understanding of ethical coaching practices, this episode provides invaluable insights and practical tools.

For more real stories, practical tools, and thought-provoking reflections, or to explore upcoming programs, visit jedi.coach.

If this podcast helped you grow, please follow, share, and leave a review – it helps more people find us. Until next time, keep listening, keep reflecting, and keep braving your story from within.