Scaling Up Assessment For Scaling Up Coaches

The Scaling Up Assessment Toolkit

Every assessment, at a glance — and where it fits in your coaching journey.

One portal to send, manage and report on assessments for your clients and prospects. This overview shows what each tool measures, the report it produces, and when to use it.

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1The coaching journey

Each assessment maps onto a stage of the client relationship. A suggested flow:

Stage 01

Prospect

Spark interest and show that work is needed.

Quiz: Will You Scale or Fail? Quick Assessment CEO Scaling Up Assessment
Stage 02

Intake

A powerful start — readiness, habits and team alignment.

CEO + Leadership Team Leadership Vision Alignment Rockefeller Habits Checklist
Stage 03

Quarterly sessions

Prepare the room before the strategy day.

Quarterly Session Prep Leadership Vision Alignment
Stage 04

Follow-up

Re-take yearly to measure real progress.

Annual re-take of each Rockefeller Habits Checklist

2The assessments

Six assessments, built on the Scaling Up methodology, the Rockefeller Habits and proven growth models.

Lead generation

Quiz: Will You Scale or Fail?

Prospect

An engaging, gamified quiz built for marketing funnels — the lightest, most top-of-funnel tool. It sparks curiosity about the Scaling Up methodology and pulls prospects into your pipeline.

ReportInstant, playful result that invites a deeper conversation.
Lead generation

Quick Assessment

Prospect / CEO

A concise, high-level scan (a refreshed 4D assessment) to attract and qualify potential clients. Sits on your website and can be customised as your own lead tool.

ReportShort and simple — enough to start the conversation.
Flagship

Scaling Up Assessment

CEO & Leadership Team

~70 questions, ~20 min, structured around the Four Decisions plus the leader and internal communication. CEO version: a ~30-page personalised report drawn from ~1,600 verbatim feedback fields, benchmarked to a peer group. Team version: compares every member’s answers (or anonymous).

Report30-page benchmarked CEO report with a ScaleUp Score · team comparison report.
Alignment

Leadership Vision Alignment

Leadership team (incl. CEO)

36 questions (long & short), answered independently. Maps each leader’s 3-year vision, core values, strategy, core customer and priorities, and sorts 16 success factors into strong / average / weak.

ReportSide-by-side comparison of every leader’s answers — misalignment made visible.
Quarterly prep

Quarterly Session Preparation

CEO & Leadership Team

Prepares the quarterly strategy session: rate the past 90 days (rocks, team, core values, atmosphere), then Start / Stop / Continue and the biggest challenge and opportunity. v2.0 adds a personal energy check-in and a Critical Number for next quarter.

ReportGroup report comparing all members — ready to feed the session.
Diagnostic

Rockefeller Habits Checklist

CEO / Leadership Team

The classic 40-item checklist across 10 habits — healthy exec team, the #1 quarterly priority, communication rhythm, FACe/PACe accountability, feedback loops, living core values, articulating the strategy, KPIs and visible scoreboards.

ReportEach item scored per person with a team average.

4How companies are compared

CEO results are benchmarked against a peer group — companies of similar size and phase (size by FTE, with freelancers at 30%; age; and online/tech type). Phases follow Greiner’s growth model, renamed.

I · Pioneer
< 8 people
II.1 · Manager
8–25
II.2 · Mgmt team
25–50
III · Delegation
50–150
IV · Standardisation
> 150
V · Cooperation
> 250
VI · Alliances
> 350

5The ScaleUp Score

0–100

An overall readiness-to-scale score from all answers — including ambition and past growth — corrected for the company’s phase, so it allows fair comparison across company sizes. Shown in the CEO report next to the peer average and the CEO’s own estimate, turning the gap into a conversation.

Want the detail behind each assessment?

The Coach’s Guide walks through every assessment, the peer-group phases, the ScaleUp Score and exactly when to use which tool.

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