If you already have Champions, you probably also have a problem you are trying to solve. Let us introduce you to five people who do. Each of them runs a network, each has a challenge we hear constantly, and each one shows what the Heroes base platform does about it from day one and where an add-on module takes them further. Each one is also placed on the Security Champions Maturity Model, because the challenge usually comes down to the stage the network is at. Building a programme from scratch instead? Start here.
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The key insight: A coordinator can run a network in Heroes for years without ever opening a network graph. Every operational feature is also quietly collecting the data that answers the harder questions when someone eventually asks them.
Priya has the Stage 1 gates on paper: a named champion in most units and a route from the centre to each. What she cannot see is whether they still hold, which is the first thing the model asks. The work is to make Stage 1 real again before anything else: who is active, which teams have nobody, whether an alert still reaches every team.
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The key insight: The people best placed to say whether behaviour has changed are the colleagues who work alongside a Champion every day. Heroes asks them, and keeps that answer separate from every other signal so it cannot be argued away.
Completion, attendance and content are measures of the network Marcus built, and they will keep looking good. The board is asking what reached colleagues, which is a carrying-capacity question. The Behaviour Index answers it directly: colleagues rating the behaviour they observe, independent of the champions. If it is flat, the model says why, and the fix is structural rather than more content.
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The key insight: Plateaued metrics usually mean the programme has run out of things that awareness can fix. The next gains come from diagnosing capability, opportunity and motivation, and that is what the designer is built to do.
Elena has done everything a Stage 2 programme can do. The behaviours she is targeting need reinforcement from several colleagues at once, and a community of champions supplies one adopter per team. Diagnosis tells her what stops the behaviour; the model tells her the network has to be reshaped to carry the intervention: pairs in the target teams, a thinner community, and exposure counts instead of click rates.
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The key insight: Influence travels through the real network, not the org chart. A network that is designed around where influence actually flows needs fewer Champions to reach more people, and survives the ones who leave.
A few well-connected champions carrying most of the reach is a Stage 3 network with narrow bridges. The Stage 4 work is exactly Amara's list: measure bridge width between sites and countries, recruit from the gaps the network shows rather than from whoever volunteers, and manage the single-link risk so a region does not go dark when one person leaves.
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The key insight: A programme that started with an incident should not have to climb a maturity ladder before it can record the next one. Risk & Incidents is available from day one for exactly that reason.
Jess should not have to climb a maturity ladder before recording the next incident, and Risk & Incidents does not make her. But the behaviours the incidents point to are threshold-three behaviours, and a roster cannot carry them. The model's advice is to embed two or three champions in each affected team now, so that the change the incident demands has somewhere to start.
Read about this stage →The Security Champions Maturity Model grades a programme by what its network can carry rather than by what it does. Stages 1 and 2 build a network that carries awareness: a roster, then a community of champions. Stages 3 to 5 need a network shaped to carry behaviour: champions embedded in pairs inside the teams that need to change, then bridged across departments, then able to hold a norm without them. Running Your Network is mostly about the first two stages, and about recognising when a challenge is really the wall between the second and the third.
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The five people above, placed on the model. Click a name to go to their challenge. Read the maturity model →
Which shape has your network grown into? The network models page describes the five shapes programmes build, and the free Champions Programme Health Check gives you a first read on where yours stands.
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