Business Coaching Editing and Proofreading Services

Twenty minutes into the third session, a client who came to work on delegation says that her husband has moved out, that she has been drinking every night since March, and that she thinks the finance director is stealing. The coach is not a therapist, an attorney, or an accountant. The agreement they both signed runs to two pages and says nothing about any of this. Coaching is unregulated work sitting next to several regulated activities, and the moment where that matters arrives without warning in a conversation the client thought was about her business.

The documents we edit for Business Coaching

Coaching agreements and terms of engagement are the documents we are asked for most, usually with the boundaries statement that should sit inside them. Confidentiality provisions and their limits come next, along with referral and escalation guidance, session note and record-keeping policies, and chemistry call and inquiry material. The work also takes in program and package descriptions, goal setting and contracting documentation, sponsor agreements for corporate coaching, and three-way contracting documentation. Supervision and development records, testimonial and case study material with consent, website and marketing copy, and procedures for complaints and for ending the relationship come to us as well. Our editors work on the agreement that defines what this is.

What the editing involves

The boundaries section protects both people in the room, and most agreements do not have one. An agreement can say what coaching is here and what it is not, with a sentence on what therapy, counseling, legal advice, and financial advice would each look like, so the client can tell the difference. "Coaching is not therapy" on its own leaves the client to find the line at the worst possible moment. "Coaching works on what you want to do next, and a therapist works on what is still affecting you from before" gives them something to hold.

What the coach will do when something outside scope arrives belongs in the agreement rather than in the moment. The useful version records that the coach will name it, will not continue in that territory, and will help the client find the right person. Confidentiality then needs its actual limits set out, because a promise of complete confidentiality is one the coach may not be able to keep. A clause reading "everything you tell me stays between us" is not a promise anybody can make in an engagement the client's employer is paying for.

The three-way contract in corporate coaching should be explicit about what the sponsoring organization will and will not be told, because coach, client, and sponsor routinely hold three different assumptions about it. A contract promising the sponsor "regular updates" leaves the client to find out later what regular means and what an update contains. Ending the relationship deserves a provision in either direction, covering notice, unused sessions, and what becomes of the notes. An agreement written this way makes the difficult session possible rather than awkward.

Confidentiality and the limits of our role

Everything you send us is treated in confidence, including client material and session records. We are editors, not coaches, therapists, or legal advisors, and we offer no opinion on coaching practice, scope of competence, credentialing requirements, or any client situation. What we can do is make the agreement clear about what is being offered and about what happens at the edges.