What factors determine whether our specific company will need more or less than the standard twenty-four months of facilitation before we can graduate?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

While the average engagement runs for twenty-four months, your actual timeline depends on your leadership team's maturity, execution consistency, and exit goals. This is not a fixed program where everyone graduates at the exact same moment.

A primary factor is your Rock completion rate. If your team consistently completes eighty percent or more of your quarterly Rocks and keeps your Scorecard green, you will progress much faster. If you struggle with accountability or suffer from frequent team turnover on your leadership team, we will need more time to solidify the foundation.

Another factor is your structural complexity and exit timeline. If you are preparing for a clean exit within three years, we will spend a significant portion of our second year integrating the Step by Step Exit disciplines. This means focusing on documenting Tribal Knowledge, resolving Value Gaps, and establishing your Advisor Meeting Pulse. If these exit readiness elements require deep restructuring, we may extend our engagement to ensure your business is fully prepared for due diligence.

Ultimately, you graduate when your leadership team can run your quarterly and annual planning sessions seamlessly without my facilitation. We verify this by observing how well your team handles healthy conflict, solves issues using IDS®, and maintains alignment. If you can run your operations with high discipline and zero external hand-holding, you have reached self-sufficiency.