What Do I Need To Legally Protect My Coaching Business?

What do I need to legally protect my coaching business?  All right coaches, now is the time. You have set up a business surrounding education, empowerment and encouragement for your clients, and you offer a valuable service. You are taking care of your clients, but who is taking care of you and your business? As a coach, you need agreements that detail the professional relationship with your client through mutually agreed upon goals and expectations. You also want your agreements to play an important role in educating your client about what coaching is (and is not) and what your client can expect from the coaching process.  Most importantly, you want to have a positive organized way to delineate your services. Since professional coaching has a wide range of objectives, tools and means of achieving goals, your agreements should be in line with your objectives, tools and means of achieving those goals.  So here is a list of documents that will help legally protect you and y...