Revealing the Invisible Architecture Shaping Small-Team Culture
This 50-item diagnostic translates the white paper into practical reflection. Each statement invites you to evaluate how leadership is actually experienced in your day-to-day environment—not in theory, but in lived reality.
You can complete this on your own as a leader, or together with a co-leader or trusted team member.
Answer honestly rather than “ideally.” The value of this tool is not a perfect score—it’s an accurate snapshot of where your leadership architecture truly stands right now.
GETTING THE CONVERSATION STARTED
Bringing This Insight Back to Your Team
This free resource is meant to do more than diagnose—it’s meant to start a different kind of conversation in your team.
Here are a few simple ways to use it in practice:
- Share the language, not the score.
You don’t have to reveal every number. Start by sharing key phrases from your report—“leadership presence,” “non-leadership indicators,” “emerging leader stress”—and invite your team to reflect on how they experience these dynamics.
- Choose one section to focus on first.
Instead of trying to fix everything at once, pick the area with the most energy or urgency (for example: Team Cultural Health or Red Flags of a Non-Leading Manager). Use that section to guide one focused conversation or team meeting.
- Turn insights into standards, not rules.
Ask, “What do we want this to feel like instead?” and co-create 3–5 presence-driven standards (e.g., “We address conflict directly and respectfully,” “We do not allow bullies to set the tone”). Standards give everyone a shared anchor for daily behavior.
- Support your emerging leaders.
If the report suggests that one person is carrying too much emotional or cultural weight, name it and acknowledge it. Explore ways to support, empower, or redistribute that load so they don’t burn out in silence.
- Revisit the diagnostic over time.
Culture is not a one-time project. Re-take the diagnostic after a few months of intentional work and compare your scores. Let the movement—up or down—inform your next layer of alignment.
Presence-driven leadership is built one honest conversation at a time. Use this diagnostic and score report as a living tool—a way to see, name, and gently redesign the architecture of how you lead and how your team experiences being led.