The Cross of Selfless Leadership · Next step

You measured the person.
Now measure the building.

Ten days in The Cross of Selfless Leadership read your Formation: the vertical beam of who you are, the horizontal beam of how you treat people. That is the first dial. DIAL Lite reads the second: the Structure you lead inside, and the gap between the two.

The Cross inside a structure A cross, labeled Formation, stands inside a rectangular frame whose four sides are labeled Truth, Power, People, and Standards, the four lanes of Structure. Truth Standards Power People Formation
The book measured the cross. DIAL Lite measures the walls around it, and whether the cross is holding them up.
Begin DIAL Lite

Free. Forty-two statements, about six to eight minutes. Your answers stay on your device; nothing is submitted.

What DIAL Lite reads

Your Formation

The same twenty starred statements from Appendix B. If you scored the Short Form on paper, the online pillar scores use the same four items per pillar and compare directly. Keep any Long Form reading separate; nine or ten items are a different measurement from four.

Your Structure

Twenty-two statements, one for each Gate in Appendix D, scored by the four lanes: Truth, Power, People, and Standards.

The gap between them

Which of the four patterns your two dials fit, Dual Integrity, Heroic Compensation, Hollow Structure, or Dual Weakness, and, when a reading sits in the transition band, which one it is drifting toward.

One move this month

A single practice aimed at your lowest pillar, small enough to start this week.

Where to look first

Your three lowest Gates, each with a suggested repair move. Each is one answer, so read them as clues to where the lane score comes from; the Gates table in Appendix D is where the rest of the lane lives.

Your Top Trio, and a Deeper Look

A preliminary Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary from the ten DIAL Leader Profiles™, scored the same way Appendix C shows on paper. Then the three read together: default mode under load, where the combination drifts, a ninety-day plan, and coaching questions. Nothing is gated.

Before you begin

Begin DIAL Lite

After your reading

Check at thirty, re-measure at ninety

Work one repair move. The results page offers a thirty-day calendar reminder; use it to check whether the move has taken hold. Put the real re-measure at ninety days, when the window you are rating is actually new, and compare two readings instead of relying on impressions.

Read your whole team

A Team Story compiles individual readings, with consent recorded first and individual scores withheld below a minimum group size, into a shared picture of where weight is concentrating. It runs on DIAL Community, the free assessment Global Mission Support builds for churches, nonprofits, and lodges.

DIAL Community for organizations

Go deeper

The Load-Bearing Leadership System™ develops the four lanes, the 22 Gates, and the repair protocols. The Load-Bearing Church™ (forthcoming) will do the same for congregations.

Get the book · Begin the 49-Day Journey

Reading this honestly. DIAL Lite is a structured self-assessment using rational cut-points and weights. It gives a directional reading you can act on today. It is not a validated instrument, not a diagnostic tool in the clinical sense, and not a personality test. Never a verdict. The full DIAL Leader Assessment™ is being built to empirical norms, with published reliability and validity required before any certified use.