Getting out of day-to-day management takes work; that’s why we call them Work-OUTS. Here are options to choose from depending on the outcome you want.
Graduation is always the objective. All my work’s about making your business less dependent on you; I don’t want to create dependence on me. Graduate when your Owner Independence Assessment score is 80 or higher and you’re regularly taking one- to two-week phones off vacations.
Get Out of Day-to-Day Management
Train with other owners who still do everything, and move decisions, results, knowledge, and relationships off your plate one week at a time. Group Fitness work where you train alongside other business owners who are struggling at the same time as you and succeeding at the same time as you, and when I’m coaching one of you, I’m coaching everybody.
Sell Your Business on Great Terms
Choose your exit and work the eight value drivers that decide poor terms versus great terms, so you finish knowing what your business is worth, which door you’re walking toward, and whether to sell on your terms or not sell at all. Personal Training work where you get one-to-one attention customized exactly to you and the date you’re building toward, on the confidential decisions you wouldn’t discuss in front of a room, while you keep training in Group Fitness.
Solve a Big Problem/Seize a Big Opportunity
My Half-Day Personal Training for Business Owners is a good fit when you’re already out of day-to-day management and want help solving a big problem or seizing a big opportunity.
Stay On Track Post-Graduation
Your last session before graduation builds your Founder Guardrails, which protect you from falling back into old habits that could get you stuck again in day-to-day management. You get tools to protect yourself from drifting back to the center of everything.
After you graduate, join Stay on Track Post-Graduation: a quarterly Guardrails Maintenance session with other graduates, plus one emergency one-to-one call per quarter, which you book yourself whenever you need it. Graduates see my newest tools first and work advanced topics like finding meaning and purpose after you sell, and structuring your next business so it never traps you in day-to-day management.
How It Works
In Group Fitness sessions to Get Out of Day-to-Day Management, you move decision-making authority, results ownership, knowledge, and relationships out of your head and hands and into the heads and hands of people you already employ. You use The Four Movements Method alongside other business owners who are working on the same things you are. The collective effort lifts everybody up, and you get there better and faster together than you would on your own.
In Personal Training sessions, you get individual strategic advising, consulting and coaching when you want to sell your business and have a date you’re building toward. It’s where we work on what you wouldn’t discuss in front of a room: your exit options, the eight value drivers, and the confidential people decisions that come with selling “your baby.” Personal Training includes Group Fitness. That’s because buyers want you out of day-to-day management; they’ll pay more, on better terms, for a business that doesn’t depend on you.
For more, see the Group Fitness and Personal Training Explained section below.
Get Out of Day-to-Day Management
Group Fitness
$5,000 for first 3 months; $1,500/month until you graduate
Sell Your Business on Great Terms
Personal Training
$20,000 for first 3 months; $4,500/month until you graduate
Solve a Big Problem/Seize a Big Opportunity
Half-Day Personal Training
$5,000 one time
Stay On Track Post-Graduation
Group Fitness + Personal Training
$4,000 per year
Group Fitness
Personal Training
Half-Day Personal Training
Group Fitness + Personal Training
Original tools for getting out of day-to-day managementLifetime access
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Private community for peer-based problem-solving, experience shares, and Q&ALifetime access
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Owner Independence Assessment to rate and compare the progress you’ve madeLifetime access
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Onboarding call with Dr. John Fulwider
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Results review and next steps call with Dr. John Fulwider
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Three weekly group calls to make your moves with coaching and consulting help from our trainers, plus inspiration and energy from fellow business owners
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Original tools for selling your businessLifetime access
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Weekly private coaching, consulting, and strategic advisory from Dr. John Fulwider
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Talk through the confidential specifics of tough decisions—86% of them are about people
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Emotional support for making tough decisions about “your baby”: The business you created
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Thinking partner to plan your next adventure after the sale
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Smooth collaboration with your other advisers
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Personal introductions to an extensive national network of business sale experts, problem solvers, and sale value multipliers
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A quarterly Guardrails Maintenance session with other graduates
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One emergency one-to-one call per quarter
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Group Fitness and Personal
Training Explained
Think about a health and physical transformation. If you wanted to lose weight or gain muscle, there are three ways you could do it.
You could watch some YouTube videos and roll your own. It’s pretty simple, right? Eat less, move more.
You could join a group fitness program like a boot camp, where they teach you the four moves for body transformation: upper body, cardio, core, and lower body. You’d be working out with other people who are also transforming their bodies and their health.
Or you could hire a personal trainer who would customize it exactly to you and give you one-to-one attention.
Getting out of day-to-day management works the same way. Four Movements, instead of four moves. Moving decisions, results, knowledge, and relationships, instead of moving your upper body, whole body (cardio), core, and lower body.
