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What is ProtoCoach?

Well, the best way to answer that is to compare it to Microsoft Word. We can all appreciate that the best tool for an author to write their novel is to use Microsoft Word. Word can change text formats, alter paragraph properties; insert indents, bullets, photos, etc. Word can save the novel as a file to edit later. Or it can print the document, or convert it to a web page or a .pdf document. Once the novel is in Microsoft Word, the author has enormous flexibility over the content. On the other hand, word does NOT create the content. The author has to do that. Word does not automatically create the plot, or the characters or the humor, or the drama, or the mystery. The author is the one that brings that creativity to MS word. MS Word is then the best tool to document, edit, store, review, update and distribute that content. Microsoft Word does not make the user a new York times best seller. But, any best-selling author isn't using pen and paper these days to write, edit and transmit their novels to their editors!

Protocoach, like MS word, is the best tool for creating, editing, saving, finding, distributing and reviewing your companies "content". What is you companies "content"? IT is how you do, what you do. It is your policies, your procedures, or as we like to call them, your "protocols": A detailed, step by step recipe of what an employee is supposed to do and how to do it. Protocols are much more detailed than a "job description". A job description may list "employee opens office in the morning". Our Protocol for "opening the office" is 4 pages long! It starts with how and where to turn on the lights and ends with the number of pens and pads that should be on certain desks!

We're not in the business of authoring or creating your protocols (although we'll have templates to help you) nor are we here to preach the virtues of documenting your processes (most of our clients already know them. but we'll be happy to share those secrets with you!)

We solve the "What do I do with all of this documentation now?" problem.
We have the solution for those that want to start the documentation process, or have already begun and have accumulated tons of documents and can't keep track of them or have finished compiling a manual that now sits on a shelf and gathers dust and is outdated by the time the binder is closed!
Now that you've adopted the "ProtoCoach mentality” (appreciating the value of documenting what you do and how you do it), you'll inevitably find yourself with tens if not hundreds of individual processes spread out over hundreds of individual and unrelated documents. What do you do with all of the information now?
That's where ProtoCoach comes in. Protocoach is the repository for all of those individual processes so that you can leverage it to:

1. Assign and distribute the processes as to do lists for your employees
2. Provide a resource for staff to look up "how to do"
3. Create an individual's, group’s, or company wide manual
4. Serve as a quality improvements and assurance tool
5. Update those protocols easily and timely.
6. Monitor your staff's compliance with those processes.

ProtoCoach is also the best protocol software to:

1. 1) Create and author new protocols
2. 2) Edit or update existing protocols
3. 3) Hyperlink related protocols and
4. 4) Hyperlink protocols to other documents, photos, movies, audio files, etc.
5. 5) Hyperlink protocols to other protocols that haven't even been authored yet ! (Patent pending!)