Today, I’m giving you a practical tool to do just that. Based on the principles from John Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 and Gordon MacDonald’s Building Below the Waterline, here is your Leadership Character Audit.

If we’re honest, most of us don't know where our foundation is cracking until the building starts to lean. We need a way to inspect the "below the waterline" part of our lives before the sinkhole appears.

Character Audit Worksheet- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0mpxnjaceitw300atavx6/The-Character-Audit-Guide.pdf?rlkey=vgghlvf1iumkxy2thbskomktf&dl=0

Books Mentioned:

The Secret by Mark Miller and Ken Blanchard- https://a.co/d/2zN49fp

Building Below the Waterline by Gordon MacDonald- https://a.co/d/hd1e1yy

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John Maxwell- https://a.co/d/592SOOT

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In my years of coaching leaders in small businesses, non-profits, and churches, I’ve seen a recurring tragedy: talented leaders who build incredible organizations, only to have them collapse because their "inner world" wasn't strong enough to support their "outer world."

Here is the reality: you cannot grow past or lead beyond what your character allows. Your skills might get you to the top, but only your character will keep you there.

Books Mentioned:

The Secret by Mark Miller and Ken Blanchard- https://a.co/d/2zN49fp

Building Below the Waterline by Gordon MacDonald- https://a.co/d/hd1e1yy

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John Maxwell- https://a.co/d/592SOOT

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Today, we have to talk about something that is killing organizations from the inside out and driving away your best people. We have to talk about Toxic Culture.

New data from Monster’s 2025 Mental Health in the Workplace survey is alarming: 80% of workers now say they work in a toxic environment.

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Today, we're talking about the fuel that makes the engine run—the secret ingredient that keeps the team from burning out. We’re talking about The Power of Celebration. Specifically, we are going to see the benefits of taking the time to celebrate, as well as some practical ideas of ways we can celebrate with our teams.

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You’ve got the vision. You've got the strategy. You just came from the big leadership retreat, the whiteboards are full of amazing ideas, and everyone is fired up!

And then Monday happens.

The daily grind hits you in the face. The emails. The phone calls. The unexpected problems. And that brilliant, game-changing strategy? It gets buried under a mountain of daily tasks.

This is the Execution Gap. It’s the single biggest trip point I see in organizations. We are great at creating strategy. We are terrible at executing it.

The truth is, a great strategy isn't what makes you successful. Execution is what makes you successful. So today, we're building the bridge from talk to do.

Book- The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated- https://a.co/d/cwRQQdG

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Today, we're talking about: Tactical Patience. This is the secret weapon of high-performing leaders. It’s the strategic use of time to allow a situation to develop, enabling better assessment, decision-making, and setting the optimal conditions for success.

This isn't an excuse to be slow or passive. It’s about being intentionally deliberate.

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Today, we're building on that idea of trust and tackling a single, simple word that is silently killing organizational health.

That word is "try."

It's the word we use to avoid accountability. It's the subtle verbal safety net that keeps us stuck in a cycle of "talk and no do."

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In this episode, we are diving into the topic of trust and low-trust in your organization and the effects both positive and negative it has on your organization. We are also going to look at 4 ways we can build trust. As the backbone of our conversation, we will be referencing Stephen Covey's The Speed of Trust (https://a.co/d/00yPrNp).

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