Go Beyond Running · Character

Build Well — Championship Character

Build the inner qualities that separate good performers from truly great ones — a structured, measurable, daily-practice system for character.

15
Tools
8-wk
Journey
52
Strengths
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Built on Dr Jim Loehr's 40 years at the Human Performance Institute — work with Olympic champions, Grand Slam players, Fortune 500 executives and military special forces revealed one finding: character, not just talent, determines who reaches and sustains peak performance. This course turns that proven methodology into a measurable daily-practice system.

Two dimensions of character

36 Strengths

Performance Character

The strengths that drive achievement — effort, perseverance, self-discipline, mental toughness, focus, courage, adaptability, confidence and the capacity for hard work.

16 Strengths

Moral Character

The strengths that shape who you are — honesty, integrity, humility, gratitude, kindness, fairness, generosity, loyalty and respect for others.

The Integration Principle: performance without moral character creates talent that lacks integrity; moral character without performance never reaches its potential. Champions integrate both.

Your 8-week journey

Week 1
Discover Your Strengths
Explore your strengths through VIA, CliftonStrengths and R2, and spot the patterns.
Week 2
Build Your Scorecard
Loehr's 9-step process — strengths, mission, grades and a growth plan.
Week 3
Daily Practice
Establish the 8-minute daily habit — morning intention, evening reflection.
Week 4
Track & Measure
Turn character into measurable behaviours and your first weekly review.
Week 5
Test Under Pressure
Use competition as a character diagnostic — who you are under pressure.
Week 6
Learn From Champions
Study exemplary athletes and leaders; begin depth journaling.
Week 7
Accountability
Establish a partnership and share your goals; your first check-in.
Week 8
Integrate & Reassess
Map strengths across life, update your scorecard, plan the next quarter.

The complete 15-tool toolkit

Character development is lifelong — after the 8 weeks you keep every tool. Choose the ones that suit your style and make them a permanent habit.

Character Scorecard
Planning · 30 min
The master tool — Loehr's 9-step framework: identify strengths, define your Ultimate Mission, grade yourself A–F, and create a targeted growth plan.
Daily Character Focus
Daily Practice · 8 min
A morning intention and an evening reflection on one of your 52 strengths per day, cycling through your priorities.
Weekly Character Review
Review · 15 min
A weekly consolidation — patterns, meta-lessons, and next week's focus.
Character Journal
Journaling · 15 min
Depth reflection on significant character moments, searchable by strength.
Behavioral Indicators Tracker
Tracking · 15 min
Turn abstract strengths into specific, measurable behaviours with weekly percentage scores and trend charts.
Pressure Test Tracker
Diagnostic · 15 min
Document and analyse your character under pressure — who you are when it counts.
Role Model Study
Learning · 20 min
Study exemplary athletes and leaders, extract their principles, and apply them.
Accountability Partnership
Social · 15 min
Partner check-ins with mutual feedback — accountability multiplies commitment.
VIA Strengths Explorer
Exploration · 20 min
The 24 VIA character strengths across 6 virtues (Peterson & Seligman).
CliftonStrengths Explorer
Exploration · 20 min
34 Gallup talent themes across 4 domains (Rath).
R2 Strengths Explorer
Exploration · 20 min
60 strengths across 5 families with the Realise2 four-quadrant model (Linley).
30 Strengths-Spotting Questions
Self-Interview · 15 min
Discover hidden strengths through energy, performance and authenticity questions (Biswas-Diener).
VIA Character Strengths
Assessment · 25 min
A full 24-strength self-rating with action plans for sport and life.
Strengths Wheel
Visualisation · 15 min
A radar chart of current use vs scope for growth, across different contexts.
Personalising Strengths
Mapping · 15 min
Map your top strengths across 10 life domains to find your true signature strengths.
"Character is the single most important factor in determining success — in sport, in business, in life. Talent gets you started. Character gets you across the finish line."
— Jim Loehr, Ed.D., Human Performance Institute
🌿 Included free

GrowWell4Life — The Science of Lasting Change

Enrol in this course and you're automatically enrolled in GrowWell4Life too, at no extra cost — 11 tools on the science of habits and lasting change (BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method). It's the foundation that makes every other course actually stick. A R495 course, yours free.

Explore GrowWell4Life →
R495
per year · full access
  • All 15 tools, yours for life
  • The 9-step Character Scorecard
  • The 8-minute Daily Character Focus
  • VIA, CliftonStrengths & R2 explorers
  • Audio guides · access to the FlourishIQ library
  • Plus GrowWell4Life — the foundation course — free
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