The Leadership Load · CLCA

CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CARE AUSTRALIA

A confidential check for Christian school leaders

You carry more than anyone sees.

Leading a Christian school is a calling — but it is also a weight few people around you fully understand. This short, confidential reflection helps you take an honest look at how you are really doing: not as a diagnosis, but as a moment to notice what the role is asking of you, your family, and your walk with God.

It takes about three minutes. Your answers are private — your result is shown to you straight away, and nothing is shared unless you choose to.

The Leadership Load Assessment: a confidential wellbeing check for Christian school leaders

Over the past month, how often has each statement been true of you? Answer honestly because this is a private reflection, and no one sees your responses unless you choose to share them.

0 = Never / rarely · 1 = Occasionally · 2 = Sometimes · 3 = Often · 4 = Almost always

1. I wake up already depleted, and the day ahead drains me before it begins.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

2. By the end of the week there is nothing left of me for my family.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

3. I am running on adrenaline and willpower rather than any real reserves.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

4. I go through the motions with staff and students instead of being truly present to them.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

5. I have grown cynical about whether the work I pour myself into changes anything.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

6. I feel a quiet resentment toward the very people I am called to serve.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

7. When a decision weighs heaviest, I carry it alone — with no one I can be completely honest with.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

8. I hold everything together for everyone else, while no one holds it together for me.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

9. I keep how depleted I really am hidden from those around me.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

10. I have had to make or enforce decisions that went against my conscience and my faith.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

11. My prayer life and time with God have thinned under the weight of the role.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

12. I sense God sustaining me and affirming my calling, even when the pressures are heaviest.

0 Never / rarely 1 Occasionally 2 Sometimes 3 Often 4 Almost always

Christian Leadership Care Australia · This reflection is for self-awareness and is not a clinical diagnosis.