Six Disciplines

About

• Six Disciplines is a management system and coaching service
• Helps mid-sized organizations (100 to 1000 employees) translate their purpose into strategy, build a purpose-driven organization develops leaders and gets results
• Low investment under $25k, Initial fee $15k
• Recurring revenue model  typically $15k to $40k per client per year
• $200k net worth
• Committed to full time work until build client base

What makes us unique?

• Holistic management system that combines what typically is purchased separately:
• Strategy execution methodology
• Leadership development
• Management software (goals management, performance management) and coaching
• Not a franchise, simple contract, low initial investment
• No territory restrictions, relationships are what matter, not geography
• Privately held, family atmosphere,  goal is a small number of coaches to cover the US (100 -150)
• Low overhead: work at home and on-site with your clients
• All sales go through coachesbbb
• Our coaches typically have about 10 clients with recurring revenue so you are not in constant sales mode
• What makes you a great coach is leveraging your prior business experience. To us it is an advantage if you have some gray hair

Our Services Include

• Best Practice Assessments (and custom surveys)
• Strategic planning
• Operational planning
• Execution Management (for senior leadership)
• Performance Management (for operations workgroups) that includes planning, meeting management, action management, dashboards, collaboration tools
• Leadership Development Workshops
• DISC Personality Assessments
• On-site coaching (quarterly)

Requirements/keys to success

• Integrity and honesty to build and maintain client trust
• Professional “presence” to work with senior executives
• 20+ years of broad business experience
• High energy, full-time focus in the early years to build your client base (mostly through reference selling)
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• High comfort with technology (to facilitate you must be able to type and talk at the same time)
• Excellent facilitation skills (coach, not consult)

History

• Owned by founders of Solomon Software (sold to Microsoft)
• Developing and improving our model since 2001
• Currently have 10 coaches with more than 50 years combined experience
• Just starting to expand our coaching network to 100+ to get US coverage
• We are a “family” style operation. We want selective, very high quality relationships with coaches and clients

Training and support

• 4 days of sales training at headquarters
• Field certification with your first client
• 2 cases of Gary Harpst’s second book Six Disciplines Execution Revolution (as marketing handouts)
• Weekly coaching check-in meeting (share learning and advice)
• Quarterly 1:1 check-in meeting to review prior quarter goals and set next quarter goals
• Telephone and email support
• Access to software and all version updates
• Access to online coaching procedures and library (equivalent of 300 plus pages of content)
• Training videos
• Marketing videos
• Collateral marketing brochures
• Direct access to anyone in the company who is a subject matter expert as needed
• Automatic renewal to the coaching program