Month 11 · Lead Leaders
Build What Outlives You
Turn culture and conviction into a system people can understand, inhabit, and multiply.
Capacity being formed
Systems & Multiplication
Translate values into rituals, standards, decisions, and teams that work without heroics.
Evidence of formation
A repeatable process runs twice without founder rescue and produces documented learning or improvement.
Signorelli wisdom
“How do you build a church as a pastor? The same way we did: bric by bric.”
Culture is built bric by bric through repeated, observable leadership.
If a value lives only in your head, it cannot multiply. We will give it a ritual, standard, owner, decision right, and feedback loop.
Biblical anchor · ESV
“But all things should be done decently and in order.”
Your discovery tool
Multiplication Map
Create a Multiplication Map: essential outcome, value, ritual, standard, decision right, handoff, feedback loop, successor, and proof.
Outcome + value
Name the recurring outcome and the value it is meant to embody.
Ritual + standard
Define when the behavior happens, who owns it, and what acceptable and excellent look like.
Decision + handoff
Clarify who recommends, decides, executes, must be consulted, and must be informed.
Feedback + successor
Set the review loop, proof, exception path, successor, and rule for improving the process.
Your session journey
One discovery. One rehearsal. One covenant.
You never have to perform for your coach. Bring one real situation and stay close to what is true, usable, and within your responsibility.
0–7
Arrive
Rate present intensity 0–10; name one desired outcome.
7–15
Witness
Name what changed, what helped, and what remains difficult.
15–25
Language
Underline one phrase; explain it in your own words; choose the phrase you need today.
25–45
Multiplication Map
Write concise answers for all four fields using one current, concrete situation.
45–57
Locate
Name the governing story, protection, motive, expectation, or system and the cost it creates.
57–70
Rehearse
Practice the new response out loud; receive feedback; repeat until the first step is clear and natural.
70–82
Prescribe
Select the practice, calendar it, and identify the witness or environmental support.
82–90
Covenant
State one commitment, one witness, one due date, and one piece of evidence. Rate confidence 0–10; shrink the plan if below 7.
Why the practice can work
Why repetition beats intensity
A 12-week real-world study found that repeating a behavior in a stable context increased automaticity over time, with wide individual variation. Missing one opportunity did not materially derail the formation process; consistency mattered more than perfection.
Read the primary source →Lally et al. (2010), European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 998–1009
Thirty-day prescription
Practice until it becomes available under pressure.
Weekly
Document or improve one page of a living process.
Evidence: Version date, owner, next review, and one change from feedback.
Twice this month
Let the next owner run the process without founder rescue.
Evidence: Result, exception encountered, and improvement made.
Care + scope boundary
A system serves people and mission; it does not remove judgment, compassion, consent, or accountability. Keep documentation proportionate to risk and complexity.
Monthly evidence review
Measure formation in real life.
Private reflection
What repeatedly breaks because it lives only in your head?
Source lineage
Original SLS facilitation design synthesized from Mike Signorelli’s books and leadership frameworks. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, used by permission. All rights reserved.