The Formation Diagnostic — Executive Formation

Before You Begin

Set aside unhurried time. Answer as you truly are — not as you wish to be or as you believe you should be.

Resist the urge to optimise your answers. The diagnostic is most useful when it meets reality, not aspiration. Complete all five sections before interpreting your results.

This is not a measure of worth. It is a tool of honest seeing — the first movement of formation.

This diagnostic is a reflective formation tool. It is not medical, psychological, or psychiatric diagnosis, and it does not replace therapy, counselling, or clinical care.

1 Rarely true

2 Occasionally

3 Often true

4 Mostly true

5 Deeply true

The question beneath all others: Am I leading from self-made authority — or from called identity?

Confrontation

Facing truth without illusion

Self-Made: avoidance & image management → Called: honest self-naming

Question 1 of 25

I can name where I am inwardly without pretending.

Question 2 of 25

I am willing to face fear, shame, or control beneath my leadership.

Question 3 of 25

I have trusted relationships where truth is spoken to me.

Question 4 of 25

I practise confession and honest self-examination before God.

Question 5 of 25

I am not hiding from reality — in my leadership or my inner life.

Confrontation Score (max 25)

Authority Received

Entrusted, not earned

Self-Made: authority generated through results → Called: authority received through calling

Question 6 of 25

I see my leadership as entrusted to me, not earned by me.

Question 7 of 25

I do not need outcomes to validate my worth as a leader.

Question 8 of 25

I can submit my plans and identity to God, not just my goals.

Question 9 of 25

I increasingly live from received identity, not from striving to maintain it.

Question 10 of 25

I practise surrender rather than control as my default posture.

Authority Received Score (max 25)

Responsibility

Stewardship, not absorption

Self-Made: carrying more than was given → Called: holding what was entrusted

Question 11 of 25

I can carry responsibility without becoming consumed by it.

Question 12 of 25

I recognise my limits and practise boundaries without guilt.

Question 13 of 25

I share burdens with others instead of isolating with them.

Question 14 of 25

I release outcomes that are not mine to control.

Question 15 of 25

Leadership feels like stewardship, not survival.

Responsibility Score (max 25)

Refinement

Endurance that forms, not hardens

Self-Made: pressure hardens and defends → Called: pressure forms and opens

Question 16 of 25

I can see hardship as formation, not interruption.

Question 17 of 25

I do not resent difficult seasons as meaningless or unfair.

Question 18 of 25

I am learning endurance with God, not endurance from God.

Question 19 of 25

Pressure is refining me — making me more open, not more defended.

Question 20 of 25

I remain open and accessible under strain, not withdrawn.

Refinement Score (max 25)

Yielded Faithfulness

Leading from calling, not outcomes

Self-Made: driven by results and recognition → Called: faithful presence beyond applause

Question 21 of 25

I practise faithfulness even when unseen and unrecognised.

Question 22 of 25

I am less driven by approval than I used to be.

Question 23 of 25

I trust grace more than performance as the ground of my leadership.

Question 24 of 25

I can rest — not because the work is done, but because Christ has finished what matters most.

Question 25 of 25

Faithfulness matters more to me than measurable success.

Yielded Faithfulness Score (max 25)

Your CARRY Profile

out of 125

Your Formation Invitation

Your Strength

Remember

The goal is not a number. The goal is awareness. The composite score is less important than the pattern across sections. Your lowest section is your invitation — not your indictment. The question is not whether you are Self-Made or Called — it is where the journey from one to the other is being invited.

This is not a label. It is a signal.

Your result does not tell you who you are. It shows where weight is most likely ending in you instead of passing through you — and where the formation journey from self-made to called leadership is being invited.

Left unchanged, this pattern does not usually stabilise on its own. Under greater responsibility, it tends to deepen.

Your lowest dimension is not the end of the story. It is the starting point of formation.

If you recognise this pattern, this is exactly where the Formation Journey begins.

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A confidential first conversation to explore what this pattern is costing you — and what formation could look like.

Go Deeper

The Extended Soul Diagnostic

72 questions across six dimensions. Pattern analysis identifies your full formation profile — Self-Made, Isolated Achiever, Functional Drifter, Exhausted Faithful, or Unformed Leader. Personalised interpretation and reflection questions.

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The Formation Diagnostic — from The Soul of the Leader by Frank Wendt

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