Client & Coach Relationship
Coach’s Role
As your coach, I agree to do the following during our coaching relationship:
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Create a safe and trusting environment that supports a collaborative coaching process
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Hold your agenda as the primary focus of our coaching relationship and sessions
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Be honest, direct, and fierce in service to your growth
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Take risks in asking the hard and even challenging questions sometimes that support your agenda and ensure the coaching remains productive and focused
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Review progress and help identify barriers
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Note: If at any time the Coach feels that the client is at risk of harming themselves or others the coach has permission to take appropriate action
Client’s Role
As the client, I agree to do the following during our coaching relationship:
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Initiate coaching sessions, keep scheduled appointments and be on time
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Shape the agenda. You get to decide what the subjects are and how deep you want to go.
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Make arrangements to avoid distraction and be focused during my coaching session
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Bring my specific topic which I want to be coached on
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Be honest
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Be open-minded and willing to receive and consider challenging questions, look at different perspectives, stretch into new skills, and take on new approaches
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Either accept, reject, or negotiate for something else when my coach makes requests of me in service of my goals and agenda
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Empower the coaching relationship to be successful; and when the coaching relationship is not working as I desire, communicate and pro-actively take necessary steps to redesign our coaching relationship to meet my changing needs
Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics and Confidentiality Agreement below:
We hold a high standard of professionalism that reflects:
We will hold all of the information that we discuss to be completely confidential and never to be shared with anyone other than yourself without direct, verbal or written permission authorized by you. The only time that this confidentiality agreement could be broken without your express written permission is if we perceive that you are a potential danger to yourself or to another person. We are then obligated by law to break this confidentiality agreement.