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Learning Objective: Help learners interpret their assessment and identify their most urgent Executive Debt exposure.

1. Your Assessment Is Your Diagnostic Tool

Your report isn’t a scorecard; it’s a map of how your past and present leadership decisions are shaping your future. Each category score reflects the accumulated weight of decisions you’ve made—or avoided. The lowest-scoring category is your early warning system. It tells you where drag is forming, where execution is slowing, and where your leadership attention is underpowered. Treat it like a dashboard light: not a crisis, but a signal that demands a closer look.

2. What to Look For

Overall Category Score
Start with the simple readout. The lowest-scoring category exposes the area where Executive Debt is accelerating fastest.

Patterns or Repeated Weaknesses in the Narrative Summary
These summaries highlight behaviors, gaps, or leadership tendencies that show up repeatedly. If you see the same issue described in multiple ways—misalignment, inconsistency, unclear ownership—that’s a signal of compounding debt.

Early Indicators of Deeper Issues
Look for the subtle clues: shifting priorities, chronic rework, people confusion, delayed decisions, and persistent cultural tension. These are the first signs of structural cracks. Don’t dismiss them. They’re trailheads to the real problem.

3. Immediate Takeaway

Pick one insight from your lowest-scoring category that hits you hardest. The one you’ve been aware of but haven’t addressed. The pattern you’ve rationalized. The friction point you know is costing you progress. That insight becomes the core of your early mitigation work. You’ll build around it in the next lessons.

Coaching Prompt

“What is the single insight from your lowest-scoring category that you know is already costing you progress—and why?”

Name it clearly. This becomes the first building block of your Executive Debt Mitigation Plan.