Coaching the PhD: Agreement, Terms & Conditions

Please take your time to read carefully this note before embarking on any of our PhD coaching schemes. At our first session (which will last 30 minutes more), I will explain the contents of this note carefully. Please come prepared with all the questions you might have regarding this note.

Responsibility

• Your Coach will endeavor to support you in making you achieve your stated goals.
• Your Coach, after carefully listening to the issues you are facing, will help you identifying the most appropriate solutions which will be based on what it is known and their own personal experience and training.
• You are responsible for the changes that you agree to bring into your life.
• You accept full responsibility for all decisions and courses of action that you will make.

Confidentiality

Whilst you are free to discuss the coaching relationship with anyone at any time, your Coach will not make any detail of the coaching relationship known to anyone without your express written consent

Scheduling

The PhD coaching sessions are scheduled in advance and an email will be sent out once the suitable time slot has been agreed.

If for any reason you cannot attend a scheduled session, you are fully responsible for informing your coach at least 24 hours before the session is due. In exceptional circumstances (for example, when you are visibly distressed at the beginning of a session), the session will be rescheduled free of charge. Communication must be done either by email or text message as to avoid unpleasant discussions.

In all other cases, the session will be deemed forfeit.

Coaching Goal Setting

During each PhD coaching session, we will first review the progress on the previously set goals. Then we will strive to analyze where further improvements can be made. And finally, we will agree on a few goals which will guide you in achieving your desired and stated results.

Time Between Sessions

The real work starts after the PhD coaching session ends. It is for this very reason that you are encouraged to keep a steady flow of communication with your coach between coaching sessions. However, you should be aware that it is your responsibility to make contact and to strive in delivering on the agreed goals during a coaching session. This sort of communication outside the coaching sessions is also meant to be one in which reinforcement of your achievements is sought.

Terms & Conditions

You are free to cancel the PhD coaching agreement at any time and you will receive a full 100% refund of any monies paid less the cost of any services/products already delivered. If you cancel the agreement more than 24 hours before the next coaching session, you will also receive a full 100% refund for this scheduled session. Otherwise, this particular coaching session will count as delivered and you can decide when to take it within 1 year from the start of your coaching session package.

All notice of cancellation must be in writing and delivered by email to your coach. You are kindly asked to request from the coach an acknowledgement of receipt of your email. Cancellation notice will be deemed on the date on which the cancellation is received. No refunds, credits or transfers available for no-shows.

Cancelling the Academy Membership

You have 2 months to decide if the Academy is for you. Within these 2 months, you can withdraw from it and you will receive 80% of the yearly price you paid. It is NO LONGER possible to withdraw from the Academy after you have been enrolled on the program for more than 2 months. Given the low time commitment to participating in the Academy live activities, it is NOT POSSIBLE to stop-and-start the membership after the subscription starts.

All notice of cancellation must be in writing and delivered by email to your coach. You are kindly asked to request from the coach an acknowledgement of receipt of your email. Cancellation notice will be deemed on the date in which the cancellation is received. No refunds, credits or transfers available for no-shows.

Coaching Sessions

We will endeavour to use video calls on a platform that is suited to both parties. Of these, the platforms suggested by the coach will be free of charge to use by the coachee for the purpose of the PhD coaching sessions.

Payment Plans

All payments should be done through the website payment page when you enrol to a service. An acknowledgement of the payment and what you have bought will be sent to you by the coach.

Program Changes

The coach and the coachee reserve the right to change, modify or cancel any programs as considered necessary. Any such change will be made in consultation and an agreement sought before any such changes will be implemented.

Exceptional Circumstances for Cancellation by Mutual Agreement

If during the PhD coaching program, at any time the coach and the coachee believe that the coaching sessions and associated coaching agreement are no longer serving the needs of the coachee, they may first initiate a discussion to bring substantial changes. Should this approach also be non-effective over time, then the coach and coachee have the right to terminate the program following the financial rules set above in Terms & Conditions.

Intellectual Property

All material (with the exception of the material clearly produced by the coach outside of the specific PhD coaching program) that is exchanged during the coaching program belongs to the coachee who can protect it with copyright and other intellectual property rights.

All materials may not be recorded, used or reproduced without the written permission of the owner.

Agreement Section

By entering into a coaching agreement either through signing the agreement or by paying any amount for the PhD coaching services, you automatically agree to abide by the terms and conditions as set out above.

These terms and conditions will be sent to you right after you have signed up for a service we offer.