The "Strategic Ascension Designer" Prompt

Want to create natural expansion pathways for your specific client relationships? This AI-powered prompt will help you identify and design ascension opportunities:

Use this prompt with ChatGPT or your favorite LLM:

"I want to design strategic ascension pathways for my consulting clients using the Three-Horizon Framework. Please interview me about a specific client situation and create custom expansion opportunities.

Ask me these questions one at a time:

Current Engagement Context:

1. What type of consulting do you provide and what's your core methodology?
2. Describe your current client: industry, size, main challenges
3. What specific results are you delivering in the current engagement?
4. How satisfied is the client with progress so far (1-10)? 

Vision and Opportunity Discovery:

5. What bigger vision has the client expressed for their business?
6. What adjacent problems are becoming visible as you solve the current one?
7. What other departments or areas could benefit from your approach?
8. What market opportunities might open up if they fully transformed?

Relationship and Trust Assessment:

9. How would you rate your relationship strength with this client (1-10)?
10. Who else in the organization sees the value of your work?
11. What's their typical investment comfort level for business improvements?
12. How do they prefer to make decisions - quickly or deliberately?

Expansion Readiness:

13. What language do they use when talking about future possibilities?
14. Have they asked about applying your approach elsewhere?
15. What would success look like for them 2-3 years from now?
 

After I answer all questions, please create:

• Three-Horizon ascension pathway (Immediate/Strategic/Transformational)
• Natural conversation starters for each horizon
• Investment positioning for each level
• Timeline recommendations for introducing each option
• Success metrics to track ascension readiness
   

Start with question #1."

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