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Keep what you installed from drifting.
Every install fades without a weekly rhythm. Governance & Reinforcement runs that rhythm in GuideOS™, so drift shows up early and gets fixed fast.
The scoreboard answers: Are we winning? The weekly commitments answer: What did we do about it?
$5,000 to $10,000 a month.
The Governance Rhythm
Weekly
Monday Morning Implementation
Monthly
Standard Review
Quarterly
Reset
Annual
Governance Audit
The Governance Rhythm
Four Cadences That Keep the Standard Installed
Behavior that isn't governed on a rhythm reverts under pressure. Governance replaces hope with a schedule, so drift is caught the week it starts, not the year it becomes culture.
Monday Morning Implementation (MMI)
The governing weekly cadence. Leaders review the prior week's behavior against the standard, name drift the moment it appears, and reset before it compounds.
Leadership Standard Review
A structured monthly check on whether the installed standard is holding across every leader and every branch, not just the ones you happen to be watching.
Quarterly Reset
A deliberate quarterly recalibration that closes any gap between what's said and what's enforced, before tolerance quietly becomes the new normal.
Annual Governance Audit
A full audit of behavioral governance across your bank, documented evidence of what's installed, what's holding, and what needs to be reinstalled.
Built On Three Pillars
What Governance Actually Governs
Leadership standards installed without a governance rhythm revert. Governance is the operating discipline that keeps the Ownership Line clear, recovers drift the week it starts, and reinforces the behaviors your bank needs repeated.
The Ownership Line
A clear, enforced line between what leaders own and what they don't, so ownership stays where the work lives instead of migrating upward under pressure.
Recovery
A structured, non-emotional protocol for resetting standards the moment they slip, so drift is corrected in days, not quarters.
Recognition
A deliberate rhythm for recognizing the behaviors you want repeated, so the standard is reinforced by what gets rewarded, not just what gets corrected.
"You fall to your governance."
Steve Lowisz, Community Bankers InstituteWho Governance Is For
Every Bank That Has Completed an Installation
The Installation Ladder
Governance Is the Final Rung
Every installation on the ladder hands off into Governance. It is not a one-time event, it is the rhythm that makes everything before it permanent.
Guide Yourself
PrerequisiteGuide Yourself: 6 three-hour sessions over about 5 months. Guide Certification is 12 sessions over about 10 months, including Guide the Leader and ending in Evidence of Installation. The entry point for all GDD installation. $6,500/seat (Phase 1) · $12,500/seat (full 12-session program).
Learn moreLeader Installs
PrerequisiteGDD installed at the individual leader or full team level, one leadership team, observable standards, weekly inspection rhythm. 3 phases, application-based. $12,500/leader · team from $75,000.
Learn moreFull Enterprise Installation
PrerequisiteBank-wide behavioral governance deployed top-down, starting with Leadership Installation at the executive layer, then carried into every branch and team. 8 phases, 44 modules, roughly 12 months. Inquiry only.
Learn moreGovernance
You Are HereThe ongoing rhythm that holds what's been installed: weekly MMI, monthly reviews, quarterly resets, and an annual audit, built on the Ownership Line, Recovery, and Recognition.
"Using Steve's training enabled our management team to break down complex topics of communication, trust and accountability, and find more wins with our team members and clients."
Josh ElingPresident and CEO, Huron Community BankDescribes a training or speaking engagement.
Installed, not taught.
Every offer runs the same four steps. That's why the behavior is still there in 90 days.
- 1Learn the behavior.One specific behavior, practiced on situations from your own bank.
- 2Commit in writing.Each person writes what they'll do, where and with whom.
- 3Apply it at work.Real customers, real team members, real pressure.
- 4Inspect it weekly.A short weekly check (MMI) makes sure it held. What slipped gets a recovery plan.
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