If you offer a paid mentoring service, you must ensure your mentoring relationship is beneficial for you and that your mentee understands the terms of your mentor-mentee arrangement. This template is designed to help you get paid on time, avoid clients cancelling last minute or expect more than what you will offer as their mentor.

The Small Business Mentoring Contract Template is a template business mentoring agreement for a paid mentor arrangement for mentors to use with their clients. It is suitable for use in Australia, including in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.

The business mentor contract template includes:

• Easy to read clauses in plain english

• A summary of what the agreement includes

• How the client will pay the business mentor

• The obligations of both the mentor and client

• A clause about the Intellectual property of the business mentor (all those shared resources can get handed around if you are not careful)

• Disclaimers for the business mentor around the results the client is likely to get (or not get, depending how much work they put in!)

Important: While you can disclaim liability to some extent, your liability under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) remains in place for faulty goods or services or misleading claims, and deceptive conduct. This Small Business Mentoring Contract Template is provided on that basis.