The Stamp Audit
The Stamp Audit
Every leader is leaving a stamp... whether they mean to or not. Twenty-eight observable behaviors. Seven emotional needs. One honest look at the stamp you are leaving right now.
The stamp is the foundation of your influence
People walk out of every interaction with you and carry something away: a feeling about themselves, a feeling about the work, a feeling about what they're worth. That stamp is the foundation of your influence. And ownership, not your title, is the X-Factor of every winning culture and every championship team.
This audit gives you a behaviorally-honest look at the stamp you are leaving right now. Not how you hope you show up. Not how you intend to. How you actually show up, measured in specific behaviors your people would recognize.
Seven needs. Four behaviors each.
Score each behavior from 1 (rarely true) to 5 (consistently true).
Take the workbook with you
Your full report is below. To keep working on your stamp, get the complete Stamp Audit Workbook... reflection prompts, the stamps you'd want back, and the Monday plan, delivered to your inbox.
Your seven needs
Each need scored out of 5. The red bar is where your stamp is thinnest right now.
Your three biggest opportunities
Your lowest-scoring behaviors. Change nothing else but these, and the room will feel it.
Start here
Level up Monday morning
Three moves, each under thirty seconds. Start Monday. Hold them for two weeks. Then audit again.
PRESENCE... Leave the last room at the door.
Before you cross any threshold that leads to a person, take one deliberate breath. Exhale the last room. Inhale where you're going.
INTENT... Name the stamp before the day.
Every morning, at a consistent trigger, answer one question: what stamp do I want to leave on the people I meet today? Named intent sticks. Unnamed intent drifts.
BEHAVIOR... Change your first question.
In your next hard conversation, "What happened?" becomes "Walk me through it." "Why didn't you?" becomes "What got in the way?" Use it once. Notice what changes in the room.
PLUS... One appreciation before noon Monday.
Tell one specific person one specific thing they did that mattered to you. Name the behavior. Name the impact. It is the fastest positive-stamp deposit you can make all week.
