Team leads and facilitators
Environment Stage 4 — Drift
See the movement between preference and enactment under pressure, against the team's own baseline.
- Time to allow
- About 30 minutes
Before you start
- Stage 3 confirmed.
Read the drift
Drift is shown against a ghost of the team's baseline: where the team sits when unpressured, and where it moves to when pressure is on. The arrows are the finding, not the positions.

Run the stage
- 1
Open Stage 4 and describe the movement plainly, without interpretation.
- 2
Ask the team what the last period of pressure actually looked like.
Match the story to the arrows.
- 3
Ask what the team wants to be true instead.
Result: This answer feeds the Protocol's intent and pressure stages.
- 4
Edit the drift reading and confirm the stage.
Result: Stage 5 opens.
What good looks like
- The team owns the drift as a pattern rather than an accusation.
- One or two things the team wants to change are written down.
Related articles
Environment Stage 5 — Build the Collective Drift Map
Assemble the map, edit every statement into the team's own words, and get it ready for approval.
Run the five stages of Map Your Leadership Environment
How the five stages fit together, what each session needs, and where the team's decisions are made.
