The coach must be able to follow a guide to professional conduct in order to decide in doubtful situations. It is a reassuring framework, both for the coach and for the client.

New: view, download and use the "Global Code of Ethics" as well as the "Diversity & Inclusion" declaration

Global Code of Ethics (French version)

Declaration "Diversity & Inclusion"

EMCC Belgium offers a code of ethics whose basic rules are:

The coach has received high-level initial professional training, both theoretical and practical, enabling them to acquire the competence required to practise the profession of coach.

They undertake to renew their training and personal development throughout their professional practice by participating in complementary training sessions, conferences or colloquia organised by the profession.

The coach demonstrates that they have undertaken in-depth personal development work, completed or ongoing, and that this work is clearly distinct from their training.

The coach has a place of supervision for their practice. This supervision is provided individually or in groups by one or more qualified peers.

The coach is bound by professional secrecy. They take every precaution to preserve the anonymity of the people who consult them and, in particular, communicate no information about a person to a third party without that person's explicit consent.

The coach maintains a position of independence. In a tripartite contract, unless otherwise specified below, they undertake not to communicate anything about the content of the sessions either to the coachee's hierarchy or to any other third party, and this solely in the interest of the coachee.

One of the characteristics of a support relationship such as coaching is the existence of a transference link between coach and coachee. This link may place the coachee in a relationship of dependence vis-a-vis the coach. The coach will derive no advantage from this and will refrain from any abuse of power or acting out against the coachee.

The coach adopts a reserved attitude towards third parties, whether the public or colleagues, in the information they may provide about the exercise of their profession during interviews or conferences, so as to avoid, for example, any risk that their clients may be recognised by others; they also refrain from using their clients for media purposes.

The coach is attentive to the profession, practices, culture, context and constraints of the organisation for which the coachee works.

The coach uses all appropriate means to enable, within the framework of the client's request, the client's professional and personal development, including, if necessary, calling on a colleague. The coachee nevertheless remains solely responsible for their decisions.