Business Coaching Editing and Proofreading Services

Business coaching is an unregulated activity with a regulated activity sitting next to it. A client arrives to work on their leadership and discloses a marriage breaking down, a drinking problem, a director they suspect of fraud, or a depression they have told nobody about. The coach is not a therapist, a lawyer or an accountant, and the moment where that matters arrives without warning in a conversation the client thought was about their business.

We edit what business coaches, executive coaches and coaching practices produce — coaching agreements and terms of engagement, scope and boundaries statements, confidentiality provisions and their limits, referral and escalation guidance, session notes and record-keeping policies, chemistry call and enquiry material, programme and package descriptions, goal setting and contracting documentation with clients, sponsor and organisation agreements for corporate coaching, three-way contracting documentation, supervision and continuing development records, testimonial and case study material with consent, website and marketing copy, and complaint and ending-the-relationship procedures. Our editors work on the agreement that defines what this is.

The boundaries section of a coaching agreement is the document that protects both parties, and most agreements do not have one. We write these so the agreement says plainly what coaching is here and what it is not — that this is not therapy, counselling, legal or financial advice, with a sentence on what each of those would look like so the client can recognise the difference; so the coach's response when something outside scope arises is described rather than left to the moment, including that the coach will say so, will not continue in that territory, and will help the client find the right person; so confidentiality is stated with its actual limits, because a promise of complete confidentiality is one the coach may not be able to keep and the client should know before they disclose; so the three-way contract in corporate work is explicit about what the sponsoring organisation will and will not be told, since coach, client and sponsor routinely hold three different assumptions about that; and so ending the relationship is provided for in either direction. An agreement written this way makes the difficult session possible rather than awkward.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client material and session records. We are editors rather than coaches, therapists or legal advisers, and we offer no view on coaching practice, scope of competence, professional body requirements or any client situation. What we can do is make the agreement clear about what is being offered and what happens at the edges.