Stratworth Vault
Your Stratworth Vault
Your plan
Your six-month SCALE2SELL® journey
- Month 1Vision and strategy
- Month 2Numbers and value drivers
- Month 3Operations, and your first quarterly review
- Month 4Team and customers
- Month 5Market position
- Month 6Exit readiness, and your six-month review
- After Month 6Ongoing advisory
Before your Discovery Session
SCALE2SELL® Founder Discovery
After your Discovery Session
Nik’s recommendation
SCALE2SELL® journey
Your six months
Each toolkit opens when its month comes round, so it becomes the starting point for your next conversation with Nik.
Month 1
Vision and strategy
What do you want, and is the business strategy capable of delivering it?
- Toolkit 1
Vision & Value Alignment
We start with you: what you want the business to deliver for you, and when. Your answers set the direction for everything that follows.
- Toolkit 2
Business Strategy Clarity
With your goals clear, we test whether the business strategy is capable of delivering them.
Month 2
Numbers and value drivers
Understand the numbers and value drivers, and set up the measures you will keep using.
- Toolkit 3
Financial Clarity & Value Drivers
Now the numbers: how the business performs, what drives its value, and where the gaps are.
- Toolkit 3a
Executive Dashboard
The Executive Dashboard and the Quarterly Readiness Radar set up the measures you will review with Nik every quarter.
Includes Toolkit 3a guide, Executive Dashboard (Excel), Quarterly Readiness Radar (Excel) and Scoring Guide.
Month 3
Operations, and your first quarterly review
Can the business scale and operate effectively without you? Then progress, gaps and your next 90-day priorities.
- Toolkit 4
Operational Efficiency & Systems
Can the business scale and run well without you? This maps your operations, systems and bottlenecks.
- Review
Quarterly Readiness Review
A review point with Nik at the end of Month 3: the Readiness Radar, progress so far, the weakest areas and your next 90-day priorities. Direction, not a precise score.
Month 4
Team and customers
Can the team carry the business, and do customers value it independently of you?
- Toolkit 5
Team & Leadership
Can your team carry the business? Leadership, capability, succession and retention.
- Toolkit 6
Customer Value & Proposition
Do customers value the business independently of you? Who they are, why they stay and what sets you apart.
Month 5
Market position
How strong, visible and defensible is the business in its market?
- Toolkit 7
Market Position & Brand Strength
How strong, visible and defensible is the business in its market?
Month 6
Exit readiness, and your six-month review
Would somebody else want to own it, what has changed, and what should happen next?
- Toolkit 8
Exit Readiness & Buyer Appeal
Bringing the work together through the ownership lens: would somebody else want to own this business?
- Review
Six-Month SCALE2SELL® Review
More than a monthly call: where you started, what has changed, where the greatest opportunity is now, and what the next six months should achieve.
After 6
Ongoing advisory
The eight toolkits are the first structured pass through the business. From Month 7 your work with Nik follows your real priorities, and the Executive Dashboard and Readiness Radar continue every quarter.
Prepared for you by Nik
Further resources
Additional templates and tools added where relevant to your journey.
Before your call
Upload your completed toolkit
Upload completed toolkits and your updated dashboards before your strategy call. Files are stored privately in your Vault for Nik to review. A file with the same name as an earlier upload replaces it, so only the current version is kept.
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