ABOUT the three parts of the Story Seeds of Leadership (SSL) by Dr. David Boje

🌿About Story-Seeds of Leadership (SSL) - the Three-Part Leadership Assessment

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This comprehensive assessment journey guides you through three integrated parts, each building on the previous to create a complete leadership profile. You'll complete all three parts sequentially in one session (10-15 minutes total).

Part I: Story Seeds of Leadership (SSL)
We explore your Living Stories for mostly unnoticed, fragmented 'Story-Seeds' of your leadership potential—what Dr. David Boje calls the 'Seven Bs: Beneath, Before, Bets, Being, Becoming, Between, and Beyond.' Today you plant and sprout these story-seeds and nurture them to result in a coherent leader identity narrative.

What Are the Seven Bs?

Think of the Bs as seeds—not the finished plant (narrative) but the potential within you, gone unnoticed. They're the Little Wow Moments (LWMs) of your forgotten triumphs, the
Bets on possible futures before they become knowable to you. Unlike finished narratives , your Seven Bs are alive, unfinished, and full of 'Living Story' possibility. They're the raw material (we call seeds) from which your leadership future blossoms.

Part II: Personal Mindfulness Quotient (PMQ)
After completing your Story-Seeds assessment, you continue the journey with an essential foundation of leadership—the Personal Mindfulness Quotient (PMQ). This part assesses your leadership mindfulness and identifies any blocks to re-authoring your leader identity narrative into its full potential. You receive a detailed profile with scores and radar visualizations for your mindfulness (based on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town') and your potential to "Re-author" (what we call Restorying).

Mindfulness indicators from Wilder's OUR TOWN

The seven steps of reauthoring your SSLs into coherent
Leader Identity Narrative of your Future

Part III: Dialogue Health Index (DHI)
Finally, we address your Dialogue Health potential. This completes your comprehensive leadership assessment by evaluating your organization's communication patterns and polyphonic leadership capacity. The assessment integrates all three parts—your Story-Seeds (SSL), Personal Mindfulness (PMQ), and Dialogue Health (DHI)—into a complete leadership profile, as shown in the example below from Walmart leader profiles.

We combine your Part I SSL, Part II PMQ, and Part III DHI
here is an exmMple form Walmart leader profiles

Ready to Discover Your Leadership Potential?

Complete all three parts of this comprehensive assessment in one session (30-45 minutes). You'll receive immediate results including your Story-Seeds profile, Mindfulness radar, Dialogue Health scores, and integrated leadership quadrant.

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