Pre-Program Baseline Self-Scoring Wheel Generator

Most coaches start a new client with a vague sense of where they are and a strong sense of where they want to go. The gap is the problem: without a clear starting line, neither of you can see progress, and the client can’t feel it either. A baseline assessment fixes that on day one.

This prompt builds a custom wheel of life assessment for your specific program, not a generic eight-spoke template you found online. You give it your niche, your program, and the life areas that actually matter to your clients, and it returns a ready-to-send self-scoring wheel with intro, questions, reflection prompts, and a scoring key. By the end of this page you’ll also understand why it works, so your next assessment is sharper.

When to use this

• A new client is about to start your program and you want a clean baseline before session one.
• You’re tired of the generic eight-category wheel that doesn’t fit your niche.
• You want a measurable starting point so progress is visible at the halfway and final check-ins.
• You’re building intake for a group program and need one assessment everyone completes.
• You want a structured way to surface the client’s real priorities before you meet.

The prompt

Copy this whole block into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini:

You are an experienced coaching program designer who builds clean, motivating intake assessments. Your job is to create a wheel of life style baseline self-scoring assessment for my clients.

Before writing, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions if anything below is unclear. Otherwise, proceed.

CONTEXT
- My niche: {{NICHE}}
- The program this assessment opens: {{PROGRAM_NAME}}
- Who is taking it: {{CLIENT}}
- Life areas I want scored (if blank, propose 6-8 that fit my niche and explain each in one line): {{LIFE_AREAS}}
- Scoring scale: {{SCALE}}
- Where it will live: {{FORMAT}}

TASK
Create a complete baseline self-scoring wheel with:
1. A short, warm intro (3-4 sentences) that tells the client what this is, how long it takes, and that there are no wrong answers.
2. For each life area: the area name, a one-line definition in plain language, and ONE specific self-scoring question the client rates on my scale.
3. A scoring instruction block explaining how to mark each area and how to read the finished wheel.
4. Three open reflection prompts to complete after scoring (e.g. lowest area, the area they most want to move, what a +2 would look like).
5. A one-line bridge that connects the results to the first coaching session.

CONSTRAINTS
- Use my exact scale and area names. Keep every question concrete and answerable in under 10 seconds.
- Plain, encouraging language. No jargon, no clinical or diagnostic wording.
- Do not invent statistics, norms, or medical claims.
- Match the chosen format: if it's a form, label fields clearly; if it's a worksheet, lay it out for printing.

After the assessment, give me a short scoring key I can use to interpret a client's results at a glance (which patterns to look for).

How to customize it

Replace the six {{VARIABLES}} before you send it:

Tip: if you leave {{LIFE_AREAS}} blank, the AI proposes a set that fits your niche and explains each one. Great for a first draft you then trim.

See it in action (full example)

Here is the exact prompt, filled in for a health and habit coach. This is the whole input, nothing hidden:

You are an experienced coaching program designer who builds clean, motivating intake assessments. Your job is to create a wheel of life style baseline self-scoring assessment for my clients.

Before writing, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions if anything below is unclear. Otherwise, proceed.

CONTEXT
- My niche: health and habit coaching for busy professionals
- The program this assessment opens: the 12-week Reset & Rebuild program
- Who is taking it: professionals in their 30s and 40s who feel stretched thin and want their energy back
- Life areas I want scored (if blank, propose 6-8 that fit my niche and explain each in one line): Sleep, Nutrition, Movement, Stress, Energy, Relationships, Work boundaries, Self-talk
- Scoring scale: 1 to 10, where 1 is 'this is a real struggle' and 10 is 'thriving'
- Where it will live: a fillable Google Form I send before the first session

TASK
Create a complete baseline self-scoring wheel... [rest of the prompt unchanged]

And here is the complete output the model returns:

Reset & Rebuild: Your Starting-Line Snapshot

Welcome. Before we meet, take five quiet minutes to score where you honestly are right now across the eight areas below. This isn’t a test and there are no wrong answers. The point is simply to mark the starting line so that in 12 weeks we can both see how far you’ve moved. Score from the gut. Your first number is usually the truest one.

How to score: Rate each area from 1 to 10, where 1 means “this is a real struggle” and 10 means “thriving.” Enter one number per area in the form.

1. Sleep — How rested you feel, not just hours in bed. On most nights this month, how restored do you feel when you wake up? ( 1 – 10 )

2. Nutrition — How well your eating supports your energy and goals. Over a typical week, how satisfied are you with how you eat? ( 1 – 10 )

3. Movement — Any intentional physical activity, not just “the gym.” How consistently does movement fit into your week right now? ( 1 – 10 )

4. Stress — Your baseline tension level day to day. On an average day, how well are you managing your stress? ( 1 – 10 )

5. Energy — The fuel you have for the things that matter to you. By mid-afternoon on a normal day, how is your energy? ( 1 – 10 )

6. Relationships — The connection and support in your close relationships. Right now, how nourished do you feel by the people closest to you? ( 1 – 10 )

7. Work boundaries — How well you protect your time and attention. This month, how well have you kept work in its lane? ( 1 – 10 )

8. Self-talk — The tone of the voice in your own head. Lately, how kind is the way you talk to yourself? ( 1 – 10 )

Reading your wheel: Imagine the eight scores plotted on a wheel, one spoke each. A balanced wheel rolls; a lopsided one doesn’t. Notice your lowest area, your highest, and the gap between them. That gap is where the early wins usually live.

Reflect (a sentence each is plenty): 1. Which area scored lowest, and what does a typical day in that area look like right now? 2. If you could move just one area up over the next 12 weeks, which would it be, and why that one? 3. Picture that area two points higher. What would be different about an ordinary Tuesday?

What happens next: Bring these numbers to our first session — they’ll point us straight to where Reset & Rebuild should start for you.

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Scoring key (for the coach): – Average 7+ across the board: client is largely stable; focus the program on optimization and the one or two laggard spokes rather than overhaul. – One spoke 3 or lower, rest mid-to-high: a single bottleneck. Likely the fastest, most motivating early win — start there. – Wide spread (e.g. 2 to 9): life feels lopsided. Lead with the lowest spoke that the client also named in reflection #2; alignment matters more than the raw number. – Flat and low (most areas 3-5): capacity and energy are tapped. Resist fixing everything; pick one foundational spoke (usually Sleep or Stress) and protect it before adding more. – Self-talk notably lower than the rest: progress in other areas may stall without addressing it; flag it gently in session one.

That is ready to drop straight into a Google Form. A two-minute pass to match your brand voice and it’s live.

Why this works

Three LLM principles are doing the heavy lifting here. Learn them and every prompt you write gets better:

1. Role priming. The opening line (“You are an experienced coaching program designer who builds clean, motivating intake assessments”) tells the model which slice of its knowledge to use. “Make me a wheel of life” pulls the generic eight-category template everyone has seen. Naming the role pulls language that sounds like a coach who has run intake hundreds of times. Always assign a role.
2. Specificity in, specificity out. The model can only be as specific as your input. Hand it “general wellness” and you get vague spokes. Hand it your real niche, your real client, and the exact areas you care about, and the questions come back concrete and on-target. The quality of the assessment is capped by the quality of your {{CONTEXT}}.
3. Constraints are quality control. The rules aren’t decoration. “Use my exact scale,” “answerable in under 10 seconds,” and “no clinical or diagnostic wording” each remove a specific failure mode — drifting off your scale, bloated questions, accidental medical claims. And the “ask me up to 3 clarifying questions first” line lets the model fill gaps by asking instead of guessing, which is the single biggest fix for generic AI output.

Do this now

1. Copy the prompt above into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
2. Replace the six variables with your real niche, program, client, areas, scale, and format. Leave {{LIFE_AREAS}} blank if you want the AI to suggest a set.
3. Send it. If it asks clarifying questions, answer them honestly.
4. Paste the result into your form or worksheet, tweak the voice, and send it to your next new client today.

Pro tips

• Reuse the same wheel at the midpoint and the end. Identical questions plus the same scale equals visible, motivating progress. Have the client re-score at week 6 and week 12.
• Keep the clarifying-questions line. It’s the difference between an assessment that fits your program and one that fits a generic template.
• Cap it at 6-8 spokes. More than eight and clients fatigue and rush their scores. If you have ten candidate areas, ask the model to merge the overlapping ones.
• Ask for a follow-up email. In the same chat, prompt: “Now write a short email I send with this assessment that explains why it matters and sets a deadline.” You get the whole intake step in one sitting.

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