What does the standard 24-month engagement roadmap look like from our first Focus Day to eventual graduation, and why is that specific timeline necessary?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The two-year engagement is engineered to build permanent organizational muscle, not to keep you dependent on an outside consultant. The objective is complete self-sufficiency, where your team runs the system cleanly without my facilitation.

Year one focuses on foundational mastery. We begin with Focus Day, where your team learns five basic tools: the Accountability Chart, Rocks, the Scorecard, Level 10 Meetings, and the Issue Solving Track known as IDS. Roughly thirty days later, we run Vision Building Day 1, followed thirty days after that by Vision Building Day 2. In these sessions, we clarify your core ideology and long-term targets inside the Vision/Traction Organizer. From there, we shift into your quarterly execution rhythm with two single-day quarterlies and your first two-day Annual Planning session.

Year two focuses on operational depth and cascading. During your four quarterly sessions in year two, we refine your core processes, integrate advanced exit or operational disciplines, and cascade the EOS tools down to your department managers. Throughout this phase, I gradually pull back from heavy facilitation and push your Integrator to run the agenda, moderate healthy conflict, and drive IDS.

By month twenty-four, your leadership team should score 80 percent or higher on the Organizational Checkup and demonstrate the maturity to run your own session days. At that point, you graduate. We part ways as trusted peers, leaving your business with a permanent operating system.