Build leaders who build other leaders.
Guide Certification is 12 sessions over about ten months: Guide Yourself™ plus Guide the Leader™. Graduates are Certified Guides who install the standard across their own teams.
Succession needs leaders who can develop the next ones.
Guide Yourself teaches a leader to hold the standard under pressure. Guide Certification adds the second half: how to install that standard in the people they lead, so your bench grows without the CEO doing it alone.
The investment.
Sessions 1 to 6
Guide Yourself™
The first six sessions on their own. Each leader learns to govern their own behavior under pressure.
$6,500 per seatSee Guide Yourself
Sessions 1 to 12
Guide Certification
Sessions 1 to 6 are Guide Yourself™; sessions 7 to 12 are Guide the Leader™, where leaders install the standard across their own teams.
$12,500 per seat12 sessions, about ten months.
Open seats or a private cohort for your bank, including your executive team. 8:30 to 11:30 AM in Livonia, Lansing or virtual.
Sessions 1 to 12.
Guide Yourself™, sessions 1 to 6
- 1. Why Leaders Step In Map the default that activates under pressure
- 2. Define Winning Clarify outcomes so teams self-correct
- 3. Lock the Standard Set non-negotiable behavioral baselines
- 4. Hold Under Pressure Refuse to let convenience erode the standard
- 5. Name the Drift Recognize when standards are quietly eroding
- 6. Reset Tolerance Close the gap between what's said and what's enforced
Guide the Leader™, sessions 7 to 12
- 7. Install Clear Winning Define the Primary Result and Guardrail that govern all decision-making
- 8. Install the Leadership Standards Library Build observable behavioral standards leaders can inspect and enforce
- 9. Organizational Tolerance Audit Name the behaviors that have quietly become tolerated and reset them
- 10. Install Behavioral Inspection Establish early warning signals that reveal drift before results decline
- 11. Install Recovery Discipline Install the structured protocol for resetting standards without emotional escalation
- 12. Weekly Behavioral Governance (MMI) Lock in Monday Morning Implementation as the permanent governance rhythm
Installed, not taught.
Every offer runs the same four steps. That's why the behavior is still there in 90 days.
- Learn the behavior.One specific behavior, practiced on situations from your own bank.
- Commit in writing.Each person writes what they'll do, where and with whom.
- Apply it at work.Real customers, real team members, real pressure.
- Inspect it weekly.A short weekly check (MMI) makes sure it held. What slipped gets a recovery plan.
Built on Guide, Don't Drive™Without it, succession stays a hope instead of a plan.
Talk through who on your bench is ready, and whether Guide Certification or Guide Yourself fits first.