Personal and small jobs
Coaching agreement
The paper for a coaching engagement, whether business, career, life or physical training. Alongside the sessions, the fee and the cancellation rule, it usually carries a section other service papers do not: a plain statement of what the coaching is and is not — not therapy, not medical treatment, not financial or legal advice — and where the client should go for those instead. Confidentiality tends to run one way, protecting what the client says.
- In the catalogue
- Personal and small jobs
- Where it can live
- Any of the 184 governing laws
Who uses one
- Coaches and mentors working with individual clients.
- Personal trainers running programmes rather than single sessions.
- Companies buying coaching for an employee, where three parties are involved.
What you are deciding
- What the programme is, and how many sessions it runs to
- How long each session lasts, and how they are delivered
- The fee, and whether it is paid per session or per programme
- Cancellation and rescheduling on both sides
- What is confidential, and who else hears about it
- Who receives progress reports where an employer is paying
- What the coaching does not cover
- How either side ends the engagement
Blanks you leave stay blank and wait in the room. Nothing is filled in from a guess.
The sections a draft usually has
- 1The parties
- 2The coaching programme
- 3Sessions and delivery
- 4Fees and payment
- 5Cancellation and rescheduling
- 6Confidentiality
- 7Scope: what coaching is not
- 8Reporting to a paying employer
- 9Ending the engagement
A general outline, not a required one. What turns up in a draft follows what you described. A contract is written in the order a contract is read.
What people call it
The names this kind of paper goes by. They are here because people search for them. They also filter the catalogue. They are not a wordlist the door matches. At the composer you describe the deal in your own words instead.
- coaching agreement
- life coaching contract
- business coaching agreement
- personal training contract
- mentoring agreement
- coaching terms and conditions
Questions people ask
- Why does a coaching agreement say what it is not?
- Because coaching sits near regulated fields such as therapy, medicine and financial advice. Papers of this kind state the boundary plainly and point the client elsewhere for those.
- Who owns what is said in a session?
- Confidentiality in these agreements usually protects the client's disclosures. Where an employer is paying, the paper says what, if anything, is reported back.
- Are results usually promised?
- Agreements of this kind describe the process rather than the outcome, because outcomes depend on the client. Promising results is both hard to define and hard to stand behind.
General answers about the document. Not advice about your situation. Not written about any one country.
Where it lives
A contract names the legal system it is governed by. That is a separate decision from which paper it is. You pick it at the door, from any of the 184 units in Governing law, including England and Wales, Delaware, California and New York.
You do not start from this page. Describe the deal in one sentence at the door. Read the draft back in plain language, in the order a contract is read.
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