The Middle Ground — Follow-Through
Day 30 is coming. That is your first real evidence point — five questions, answered honestly, compared against how you answered them before the workshop. This week is about preparing for that honestly. Not polishing your answers. Just looking clearly at what has actually changed.
The same five questions you answered before the workshop: psychological safety, having ideas heard, fairness of emotional labour, sense of belonging, and belief in organisational change. Your honest answers — whatever they are — are the data. The gap is the proof.
Which corner are you?
Before the Day 30 survey, look back at the past four weeks. Not at what you hoped would change — at what actually has. Even one small thing is real. One task you declined. One boundary you held. One rest you took without guilt. That is your evidence.
If most of those answers are no — that is not failure. It is data about how deep the pattern runs, and how much the structure around you resists change. The Day 30 survey will capture that too. Honest data beats optimistic data every time.
What is one concrete thing that is different after four weeks — however small? And what is one thing the workshop did not reach — however uncomfortable that is to admit?
Before the Day 30 survey, think about the questions you have had over the past four weeks. How many did you answer yourself? How many did you ask for help with — and how did you frame those asks? Has the ratio changed since Week 1?
The freeze does not have to be gone. It just has to be smaller. Even a slightly smaller freeze, held consistently over months, is how behaviour changes permanently.
Name one thing you now know that you did not before the workshop. How did you learn it — from reading, from doing, from getting something wrong? That learning path is as important as the knowledge itself.
Before the Day 30 survey, go back to the pattern audit from Week 1 — the mental replay of your last team meeting. Do it again now. Same meeting, same questions. How many times did you speak? Who was interrupted? Whose ideas were credited? Has anything changed in what you notice?
The measure is not whether the room has changed. The measure is whether your attention has changed. A room full of Corner Threes paying attention differently is how a room starts to change.
What is one concrete, specific, observable thing that is different about how you participate in meetings or conversations compared to four weeks ago? Not what you intend to do — what you actually did.
Before the Day 30 survey, take stock of where your position is. Is it clearer than it was four weeks ago? Do you have more language for it? Have you used that language with anyone? The goal was never to resolve the complexity — just to give you a better map of it. How good is the map now?
Even if nothing external has changed — if the organisation is still using the same insufficient categories — your internal map may have improved significantly. That is real progress. It travels with you regardless of what the organisation does.
What is one thing that is clearer about your position after four weeks — however small? And what does the framework still not capture about where you sit?
This is your last reflection before Day 30. Be honest — the quality of the evidence depends on it.
Your Week 4 reflection is in. The Day 30 survey is the evidence checkpoint — five questions, same as before. Take it honestly.