Is PerfectCoaches more than a training tool?

Yes. Each year organizations invest over $148 billion on training to improve the performance of individuals and their enterprises. However, too often organizations fail to see a return on this investment as employees don’t put new skills into practice. PerfectCoaches helps solve this problem because it is more than a training technique, it is a way to learn-by-doing. Skills aren’t acquired in a classroom or a video. Users actively practice the habit they are learning using feedback from their coach. PerfectCoaches helps individuals achieve the self-awareness and behavioral focus needed to learn and use new skills.

Can it be customized?

Yes. Any skill or habit, not just the habits already identified by the app, can be learned. The solution is ready to be used as-is or customized and rapidly deployed as part of your enterprise’s ongoing talent development approach. Modifications can be made to the look and feel (e.g., adding your corporate logo), reports, and other features of the app. 

PerfectCoaches can be used as a stand-alone development tool, to supplement classroom or online trainings, or as a plug-in to a human resource management system. For example, PerfectCoaches is a certified integrator with SAP SuccessFactors. Either way, it’s a cost-effective, rapidly deployed approach to create a culture of continuous quality improvement.

Users begin the process with a "Self-awareness Snapshot" of their current skills, habits, and behavior.  They then establish goals based on a curated list of best practices for professional excellence and healthy living.  Each day users work on one skill they want to acquire or improve. Their online coach/confidant at PerfectCoaches.com provides feedback in the form of questions and tracks progress. A minute a day is all it takes to reinforce skill acquisition.

How do I join the VARI Group?

How does the VARI Group create quality?

What role do book play?

What does PerfectCoaches cost?

VARI Group memberships can take a variety of forms. When the Group was founded, members were selected to participate in specific business projects, usually as contractors.

Beginning in 2023, subscription-style memberships will be emphasized. Potential members contact the VARI Group by email at ClientSerfvice@theVARIGroup.com. They receive a contract electronically, which spells out the benefits, price, and other information.  

Quality—defined as standard outcome and the absence of defects—is sustained through communication. Every VARI Group client contract includes PerfectCoaches. Users are encouraged to communicate with their coach/confidant at least once each day. Feedback is provided by AMI (for Adaptive Motivational Interaction) and/or a human coach working with the Coach Portal built into the app. PerfectCoaches has a powerful network building tool that enables an enterprise to set up one-to-one and one-to-many relationships inside of teams for the purpose of providing feedback.

A foundational goal of the VARI Group is quality through innovation. Members can foster their own innovative concepts, such as local chapters with their own leadership teams, events, and business goals.

The book Life’s Seven Perfect Coaches by Dr. Douglas Hines can supplement the user experience at PerfectCoaches.com. It provides a deeper explanation of the Perfect Coaches “thought experiment” in which users are invited to think of their coach/confidant as a real or fictional person with whom they would like to communicate. It also discusses the behavioral science behind the self-managed behavioral modification implemented by the tool. It is an excellent resource for managers or instructional professionals in organizations or schools that use the tool.

Other books by Dr. Hines, Change Agents in Sunglasses and Performance by the Numbers, provide intellectual background for the Science of Pure Performance. They are also available upon request.

For an individual, the standard price for a PerfectCoaches subscription is $19.95/month; depending on the habit, users can acquire at least one new skill or habit in a month. A one year individual subscription costs $129.95. One subscription provides access on a PC, iPhone, or Droid device.

Corporate subscriptions, which can include a book for each seat, are priced on a yearly basis and depend on the specific implementation (customized screens and reports, how the coach feature is used, and other factors). Enterprise pricing for PerfectCoaches is highly competitive in the learning system marketplace. Significant discounts are being offered for early adopters of the method.