The Growth Compass.
Seven questions, not five minutes. By the end you'll know where you stand, where you need to be, what your growth is actually for — and whether you can steer it there. Free, no account. Your answers stay on your device.
Growth is not an amount but a direction.
„We need to grow“ is rarely one shared decision — it's five different ones. Four times out of five, growth doesn't mean „more“. In seven questions, the compass shows which kind of growth is actually in play for you — and whether you can steer it — before you decide the next step.
Agreement without precision costs more than open disagreement.
What the compass makes visible.
Where you stand today.
Not what you wish for — which five questions actually dominated your last ten leadership meetings.
Where you need to be.
The kind of growth that has to fit you in twelve months: secure survival, reposition radically, renew, mobilise or learn — not the revenue target.
What the growth is for.
Efficiency, volume, new business, customer value or position — the question most often skipped in leadership meetings because everyone believes it's already answered.
Whether you can actually steer it.
Four questions on numbers, priority, authority and staffing — the difference between a direction that's decided and one that has merely happened.
Try it right away.
Open the compass in your browser — no download, no account, no sign-up. Your answers stay local on your device. At the end you can copy the result and take it into your leadership team.
The solo view is the start, not the result.
The compass is the silent solo version. The value appears when the whole leadership team answers the same questions separately and reveals only afterwards — the gap between the answers is the real diagnosis. How that works, and why the nodding is the problem, is in the Nick Test.
You know the direction. Now get the team behind it?
The compass shows your solo view. In a 30-minute discovery call, we work out how to run the exercise in your leadership team — and whether our support is a fit.
Book a discovery call→Frequently asked questions.
What is the Growth Compass?
An interactive self-check in seven questions: where your company stands today, where it needs to be in twelve months, what the growth is actually for — and whether you can steer it there. At the end you get an assessment, not a roadmap. The real value appears when the whole leadership team fills it in separately and reveals only afterwards.
Are my answers stored or transmitted?
No. The compass runs entirely locally in your browser. Nothing is transmitted or stored — at the end you can only copy the result yourself.
How does the compass relate to the Nick Test?
It is the solo version of it. The Nick Test is the exercise for the leadership team — each person marks in silence, then it is revealed. The compass walks you through the same seven questions alone, so you can set your own assessment cleanly before the round begins.
Who is it for?
For managing directors, founders and leadership teams in mid-sized companies facing a growth step — organic or by acquisition — who want to work out which kind of growth is actually in play.
Where does the compass come from?
From our work with leadership teams in the Growth Circles. The underlying framework follows Barbara Heitger and Alexander Doujak, „Harte Schnitte, neues Wachstum“ (2014); guiding questions, effect types and evaluation are by JUSTGROW.