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Stage one
Everyone runs the quiz
20 minutes, on their own
Each leader takes the habit-loop diagnostic alone. No scores shared yet. Everyone walks in with their own pattern already named.
Before anyone stands in a room together, each leader answers ten questions about what they actually do when they are busy, tired, or under pressure.
They get two scores. What their people see. What may be driving it. Nobody grades it. Nobody sees it but them.
This matters because a workshop that starts with a definition of leadership starts with a shrug. A workshop that starts with your own result starts with a flinch.
Run it: step by step
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1. Send the quiz five days out
10 min to set up
- · Email every leader the quiz link. One link, no attachments, no prep reading.
- · Give a deadline that is two days before the workshop, not the morning of.
- · Say plainly that nobody but them sees the result. If people think this feeds a performance review, they will answer like a brochure.
Say it like this
“Answer for your worst Tuesday, not your best one. The quiz only works if you tell it the truth about the version of you that shows up when you are behind.”
2. Everyone takes it alone
20 min each
- · Phone or laptop, one sitting, no discussing it with a peer first.
- · Read the result once. Do not argue with it, do not rank it against anyone.
- · Save the results email. It is the only thing they bring to stage two.
3. Write one real moment
15 min
- · Pick a moment in the last thirty days where the visible behavior showed up. A specific meeting, a specific message.
- · Write four sentences: what happened, what you did, what you told yourself, what your team did next.
- · Bring it printed or on your phone. You will read it out loud in stage two.
Say it like this
“Four sentences. If it takes a page, you are explaining instead of remembering.”
4. I collect the shape of the room when we meet
20 min, in the first session
- · Nothing gets sent ahead. Leaders bring their own result and keep it.
- · At the top of the first session I ask for one thing only: your visible behavior category. Not your driver, not your moment.
- · I tally the four categories on the spot, on paper, with no names attached.
- · That live count is the first thing the room sees. It is the shape of the room, in the room.
Say it like this
“Hands up for your category. I am counting, not recording. No names go on this sheet and it leaves with me.”
What you need in the room
- · The quiz link, sent by email five days out
- · A quiet twenty minutes per leader
- · A tally sheet, which I bring and hold
Debrief questions
- · What was your first reaction to your result: recognition or defense?
- · Which sentence in it did you want to delete?
- · Who in your life would have guessed that result before you did?
How this stage gets wrecked
Someone makes it a scorecard
The second a leader thinks HR is reading this, the answers turn into a résumé. Say out loud, in writing, that results are private and no one is tallying names. I take the category count myself, in the room, with no names on it. That count is the only thing that leaves.
Before the next stage
Two days of sitting with the result before anyone talks about it. That gap is on purpose. Recognition needs quiet.
What each leader does
- · Take the quiz honestly, on your automatic behavior, not your best day.
- · Read your habit loop once. Do not argue with it yet.
- · Write down one moment last month where that loop showed up.
How you know it landed
Every leader can say their visible habit out loud in five words.