Month 7 · Lead Others
Integrity Under Influence
Align private choices, motives, money, and authority before influence amplifies the gap.
Capacity being formed
Integrity & Motives
Bring methods, motives, money, authority, and private choices into alignment.
Evidence of formation
One private-public gap is closed through disclosure, repair, a changed practice, and an accountable safeguard.
Signorelli wisdom
“Motives matter more than methods.”
A sound method cannot redeem a corrupt motive.
We are going beneath the successful-looking outcome to examine what drove it, who paid for it, and what clean leadership requires now.
Biblical anchor · ESV
“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”
Your discovery tool
Integrity Gap
Complete the Integrity Gap: stated value, actual behavior, hidden incentive, affected person, repair, safeguard, and invited feedback.
Value + behavior
Write the stated value beside the recent observable behavior that contradicted it.
Motive + impact
Name the hidden incentive and the impact on people, trust, money, or mission.
Repair
Choose disclosure, apology, restitution, correction, or changed decision. Name who needs what.
Safeguard
Design visibility, separation of duties, limits, review, and a feedback witness.
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
Integrity Gap
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 safety precedes learning
In a field study of 51 work teams, psychological safety was associated with learning behavior and helped explain team performance. The coaching implication is simple: candor grows when interpersonal risk is handled with dignity and curiosity.
Read the primary source →Edmondson (1999), Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350–383
Thirty-day prescription
Practice until it becomes available under pressure.
Within seven days
Complete the appropriate repair with counsel where risk or safeguarding requires it.
Evidence: Date, action, response, and follow-through still owed.
Before consequential decisions
Run the Motive Check: true, loving, clean, accountable, sustainable, explainable.
Evidence: Three decisions and which question changed the action.
Care + scope boundary
Do not promise confidentiality when law, organizational policy, abuse, self-harm, financial misconduct, or safeguarding duties require escalation. Follow qualified counsel and policy.
Monthly evidence review
Measure formation in real life.
Private reflection
What gets excused when the outcome appears successful?
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.