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growth-engine

The G. R. O. W. T. H. Engine™ is a 6-pillar business acceleration methodology created by Gita Sivanandan (GBL International). It moves businesses from founder-centric chaos to system-driven scale.

  • Area: Strategy
  • Category: business
  • Level: beginner
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: none
  • Roles: CEO / Founder

Applies the proprietary G. R. O. W. T. H.

How you ask

  • “Run a G. R. O. W. T. H. Engine assessment on my business”
  • “Create a 6-pillar diagnostic for my consulting firm”
  • “Analyze founder-dependence in my agency”
  • “Build a coaching sprint plan using the GROWTH framework”

Inputs

  • request — The assessment scope — rapid 6-question check (weak-pillar flags, stage stays a hypothesis) or full 40-question diagnostic (pillar scores and stage) — and any known stage hypothesis.
  • scope — company, or a client-id under the client tree (client.root) — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set
  • profile — Company or client profile used to establish identity and prior-known stage before scoring.
  • offerings — Offerings catalogue read when scoring the W (Work Smarter) pillar, since leverage includes offer design.
  • marketing-context — Positioning and competitive frame read when scoring the G (Ground the Vision) pillar's stakeholder alignment.
  • request — Which worksheets are needed — a named subset or the full 10-worksheet workbook.
  • profile — Company or client profile used to pre-fill worksheet fields with known identity and stage data.
  • icp — ICP used to pre-fill worksheet fields (e.g. Vision Clarity, Strategy Shopping Cart) that reference the target customer.
  • offerings — Offerings catalogue used to pre-fill the Strategy Shopping Cart and Leverage Audit worksheets.
  • request — The sprint's starting point — known stage, prior diagnostic result, or the business context to infer stage from.
  • profile — Company or client profile used to determine current stage (Startup / Scale-Up / Maturity) and its pillar pair.
  • marketing-context — Positioning and competitive frame used to weight which pillar-pair actions matter most this quarter.
  • request — The presentation's audience and purpose — client workshop, internal training, or pitch context.
  • profile — Company or client profile used to customize the deck's industry examples and context.
  • marketing-context — Positioning and competitive frame used to tailor slide examples to the client's market.
  • request — The pillar problem to address and any evidence already gathered for it.
  • pillar — Which pillar to deep-dive — Ground the Vision, Remove Roadblocks, Organise Your Systems, Work Smarter, Track Your Numbers, or Hard-Proof the Business. (G | R | O | W | T | H)
  • profile — Company or client profile used to ground the pillar's diagnostic questions in the business's actual context.
  • icp — ICP read when the pillar deep-dive touches customer-facing decisions (G — Ground the Vision, W — Work Smarter).
  • offerings — Offerings catalogue read when the pillar deep-dive touches offer design or leverage (W — Work Smarter).
  • marketing-context — Positioning and competitive frame read when the pillar deep-dive touches stakeholder alignment or market position (G — Ground the Vision).

Outputs

  • 90-Day Sprint Plan — week-by-week milestones on the three-phase template, weighted to the stage's primary pillar pair, with owners and success criteria per phase.
  • Client scope only — the worksheet pack once the client has completed and reviewed it, filed as a delivered work product.
  • Diagnostic Summary — stage assessed, evidence base, pillar-by-pillar scores (G/R/O/W/T/H), binding constraint, and recommended 90-day focus areas.
  • Single-Pillar Action Plan — diagnostic questions and worksheet for the chosen pillar, completed, with action items naming owner, deadline, and success criteria.
  • Worksheet Pack — one or more of the 10 G. R. O. W. T. H. worksheets, pre-filled with known client data where available, assumptions left visible.
  • Workshop or Deck Outline — 19-slide roadmap structure adapted to the client's industry and context, ready for gamma-presenter / pptx-tools / google-workspace build-out.
  • prefer a permanent directory)
  • {client.deliverables}/growth-engine-worksheets-{descriptor}.md