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.
Language from Mike
“How do you build a church as a pastor? The same way we did: bric by bric.”
Biblical anchor · ESV
“But all things should be done decently and in order.”
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.
Coach: “What breaks because the value is inspirational but not operational?”
Ritual + standard
Define when the behavior happens, who owns it, and what acceptable and excellent look like.
Coach: “Could a capable new person observe and repeat this?”
Decision + handoff
Clarify who recommends, decides, executes, must be consulted, and must be informed.
Coach: “Where does the process wait for you unnecessarily?”
Feedback + successor
Set the review loop, proof, exception path, successor, and rule for improving the process.
Coach: “How will the next owner make it better rather than worship the document?”
No-prep facilitator guide
The complete 90-minute run-of-show
Bring the participant’s CT Scan result, this page, a timer, and a way to write. Read the coach language as written when useful; follow the person more closely than the clock when safety or truth requires it.
| Time | Phase | Coach does + says | Participant does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–7 | Arrive | Say: “This conversation is confidential within the limits we agreed. What would make these 90 minutes useful?” Then lead three slow breaths and a brief prayer. | Rate present intensity 0–10; name one desired outcome. |
| 7–15 | Witness | Ask for one piece of evidence since the last session. Reflect effort, choice, support, and result—without inflating it. | Name what changed, what helped, and what remains difficult. |
| 15–25 | Language | Read the Mike Signorelli line and 1 Corinthians 14:40. Ask what each exposes or invites in the live situation. | Underline one phrase; explain it in your own words; choose the phrase you need today. |
| 25–45 | Multiplication Map | Guide the four fields in order. Do not interpret ahead of the participant. Start with: “What breaks because the value is inspirational but not operational?” | Write concise answers for all four fields using one current, concrete situation. |
| 45–57 | Locate | Ask the remaining tool prompts, then: “What is the pattern beneath the performance?” Allow silence. | Name the governing story, protection, motive, expectation, or system and the cost it creates. |
| 57–70 | Rehearse | Give the one-page map to someone unfamiliar with the process (coach can role-play). They explain it back, identify the next action, and surface three ambiguities. Revise live. | Practice the new response out loud; receive feedback; repeat until the first step is clear and natural. |
| 70–82 | Prescribe | Choose the smallest sustainable practice. Specify cue, frequency, duration, support, and visible evidence. Explain the research carefully as support—not certainty. | Select the practice, calendar it, and identify the witness or environmental support. |
| 82–90 | Covenant | Ask: “What will you do, by when, who will know, and what proof will exist?” Read the safety boundary before closing in prayer. | 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.