Identify problems and strengthen problem focused solutions (Working with Tensions)

Outcomes for your organisation

Increased Organisational Responsiveness: Enhance your ability to sense, adapt, and effectively respond to internal and external challenges to your organisational goals, keeping your organisation flexible and reactive in a complex world.
Elevated Team Dynamics: Foster self-management within teams by navigating and addressing tensions at personal, team-wide, and organisational levels with precision and empathy.
Advanced Decision-Making: Strengthen participatory decision-making processes ensuring every voice is heard and leveraged in resolving tensions and making informed decisions.
Profound Understanding of Tensions: Gain insight into the importance of tensions in bringing strategies to life through informed everyday decisions, driving success.

Transformational Product Details

Working with Tensions: Your 1-Day Organisational Tools Workshop

Maximise your organisation’s adaptive capabilities in one day. This workshop is carefully designed to cultivate a deeper understanding and mastery of taking the right day-to-day decisions and tackling the important work for the organisational goals – by working with tensions. This is a cornerstone skill for enabling self-management and participatory decision-making within organisations.

1-Day Workshop Facilitation

Full-Day Interactive Session Delve into the essence of actual organisational tensions, understanding their crucial role in strategic execution and organisational responsiveness. Participants will practice sensing, refining, and aligning on actual tensions both individually and as a team, exploring tensions at various organisational levels—individual, team, and governance.

The concept of “good enough for now and safe enough to try” will be ingrained, enabling teams to adopt effective and inclusive approaches to decision-making.

Having worked on real tensions in your organisation, your team is set up to directly execute on your strategy and practices live self-management.

Post-Workshop Support

Ongoing Guidance Continuous support to assess and refine the approaches and methodologies learned during the workshop, ensuring sustained alignment and success in managing tensions.

We suggest two interactive 2-hour sessions with the team, helping them by facilitating their own working with tensions sessions.

Tensions are inherent; managing them proficiently is key. Equip your team with the insights and skills to navigate and leverage tensions effectively.

Your Commitment: Time & Resources

For a successful “Working with Tensions” workshop, we recommend assembling a team reflective of varied perspectives and roles within the organisation. This diverse team, dedicated to actively participating in the full-day workshop, will help in assimilating and applying the learned concepts more effectively across different layers of the organisation. The group can be an existing team or being assembled from different parts of the organisation. We can start at four people up to 20.

We’re here to assist you selecting and inviting the right individuals to ensure the best workshop outcomes.

Your Space or Ours: The Setting

We’re equipped to conduct the workshop at your location and will help ensure the space is prepared for success. However, if your regular workspace doesn’t encourage deep, distraction-free discussions, we’re here to help. Together, we can find an ideal, composed retreat near your premises.

Our Service: Overview of Efforts

Preparation: Coordinated efforts for setting up the location, defining participants, and extending invitations.

Workshop: One immersive full-day workshop facilitation.

Follow-Up: Sustained support to ensure continuous application and refinement of learned concepts and methods. Suggested two 2-hour sessions at least.

Total Two Days with one of our expert coaches.

Please note that additional costs for alternate venues, catering, or additional facilitation are not included in this outline. In large group sizes, we recommend to facilitate the workshop with a main coach and an assistant.

Talk to us to book your individualised Working with Tensions Workshop for your organisation.


Related Transformational Field(s) – Shared Values, Skills, Systems

Complementary Services: Amplifying Your Journey in Managing Tensions as an Organisation

To intensify the impact of the “Working with Tensions” workshop and to support your organisational growth further, consider incorporating these complementary services:

  • Problem Statement Crafting: Define issues with precision as an organisation, laying a foundation for effective division of labour solution.
  • Debrief Mastery: Turn joint decisions into actionable steps with a culture that values reflective debriefing.
  • Strength-Driven Team Dynamics: Harness the individual & collective strengths of your team for optimal collaboration.
  • Aligned Autonomy Approach: Embrace self-management while maintaining focus on shared objectives for agility and velocity.
  • Participatory Decision-Making Mastery: Elevate your team’s capability in inclusive and effective decision-making.

By integrating these services, you ensure a comprehensive approach to transformation, from tension perception to proficient management.