Manage From the Future™ 

Generative Tension™ Workshop

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Focus: From Potential to Progress – Unlocking Growth with Generative Tension™

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Description: What if your greatest impact as a manager isn’t in solving problems—but in helping people become who they’re meant to be?

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Generative Tension™ is a breakthrough approach to leadership that equips managers to guide growth by anchoring in a compelling future vision and walking with their team members through intentional, developmental conversations. This highly interactive workshop introduces a four-stage framework for helping individuals define where they are, envision who they want to become, and build the momentum to get there.

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Participants will learn how to manage from the future—using belief, empathy, and accountability to fuel performance and transformation. With tools grounded in real-world examples and practice opportunities, this session is designed to strengthen your effectiveness as a coach, developer, and leader.

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In this session, participants will learn how to:

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• Use Generative Tension™ to fuel motivation, accountability, and lasting growth.

• Apply a four-stage method to support development: Current State, Future State, Discovery Points, Breakthrough.

• Conduct powerful developmental conversations with clarity and empathy.

• Help contributors choose meaningful growth areas and define success beyond surface-level goals.

• Recognize progress, reinforce confidence, and celebrate identity shifts that unlock sustained performance.

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Structure and Experience:

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• Synchronous components include live sessions, small-group dialogue, and scenario-based coaching labs.

• Asynchronous components include reflective journaling, guided self-assessments, and targeted reading excerpts from Manage From the Future™: The Generative Manager™.

• Participants receive a full digital or printed workbook aligned with the book’s chapters and workshop exercises.

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Key Modules:

 

1. ​Seeing the Invisible – Understanding Generative Tension™

2. Holding the Gap – The Four Stages of Generative Tension™

3. Managing From the Future™ – The Generative Manager™ as a source

4. Building Brave Space – The Role of Psychological Safety

5. Conversations that Create – Developmental Dialogues in Action

6. Practicing the Stretch – Identity, Progress, and Performance

7. Making it Stick – Embedding Generative Practices in Daily Management

 

Whether you’re leading new contributors or seasoned professionals, this session will transform the way you think about development—and equip you to walk with your people toward their next level.

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Manage From the Future™ 

Generative Manager™ Workshop

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Focus: Becoming a Generative Manager™ – Leading with Identity, Integrity, and Intention

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Description: What if the true power of management isn’t in controlling outcomes - but in catalyzing human potential?

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Becoming a Generative Manager™ is an immersive workshop based on the book Manage From the Future: The Generative Manager™. This session is for leaders ready to make the shift from reactive problem-solving to future-forward leadership - guiding their teams with clarity, character, and conviction.

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This workshop invites participants into the heart of generative leadership: a practice rooted in identity, driven by meaningful futures, and expressed through intentional action. It combines the developmental science behind adult growth with practical tools to shape team culture, guide transformation, and deepen leadership presence.

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In this session, participants will learn how to:

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• Embrace a generative identity as a manager - becoming a source of growth, not just oversight.

• Apply the core frameworks of Managing From the Future to shape performance through possibility.

• Activate Generative Tension™ in team conversations, coaching moments, and planning processes.

• Build high-trust environments where psychological safety and personal responsibility can coexist.

• Cultivate strategic focus, personal mastery, and developmental influence across their teams.

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Structure and Experience:

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• Synchronous components include live sessions, small-group dialogue, and scenario-based coaching labs.

• Asynchronous components include reflective journaling, guided self-assessments, and targeted reading excerpts from Manage From the Future™: The Generative Manager™.

• Participants receive a full digital or printed workbook aligned with the book’s chapters and workshop exercises. 

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Key Modules:

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1. The Generative Identity – Redefining what it means to Manage From the Future™

2. The Generative Manager™ as Source – Shaping environments that pull others toward their future selves

3. From Problem-Solving to Possibility-Shaping – Making the shift to a Generative Mindset™

4. Generative Tension™ in Action – Frameworks for growth-centered conversations

5. Practicing Developmental Integrity – Leading with character and consistency

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This workshop is not just about new skills - it’s about a new way of being. Participants will walk away with practical tools, deeper clarity, and a renewed commitment to the Generative Manager™ they want to become.

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Manage From the Future™ 

Generous Contributor™ Workshop

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Focus: Becoming a Generous Contributor™ – Thriving in Growth-Oriented Teams

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Description: What if you could generously contribute and impact progress from where you are by showing up not just for tasks, but for transformation?

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Becoming a Generous Contributor™ equips individual contributors to thrive in teams where growth, collaboration, and contribution are the norm. This interactive experience invites participants to shift from a mindset of “What’s in it for me?” to “What can we build together?”, and to embrace their evolving identity as co-creators of progress.

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Grounded in the principles of The Generous Contributor™, this workshop supports participants in taking ownership of their development, cultivating meaningful relationships with their managers, and contributing more intentionally to the shared mission of their team.

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In this session, participants will learn how to:

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• Adopt a Generative and Generous Identity.

• Use the Generative Tension™ Model.

• Clarify and Align with Personal Purpose.

• Strengthen Developmental Partnerships.

• Embrace Generosity as a Cultural Force.

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Structure and Experience:

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• Synchronous components include live sessions, small-group dialogue, and scenario-based coaching labs.

• Asynchronous components include reflective journaling, guided self-assessments, and targeted reading excerpts from Manage From the Future™: The Generative Manager™.

• Participants receive a full digital or printed workbook aligned with the book’s chapters and workshop exercises. 

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Key Modules:

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1. Embracing the Generous Contributor™ Identity

2. Showing Up Generously at Work

3. Discovering Your Personal Purpose

4. Navigating Growth with Generative Tension™

5. Partnering with Your Manager for Development

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This workshop is not just about new skills—it’s about a new way of being. Participants will walk away with practical tools, deeper clarity, and a renewed commitment to the Generous Contributor™ they want to become.

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Manage From the Future™ 

Generous Mindset™ Workshop

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Focus: Generous Mndset™ – Leading From the Inside Out

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Description: What if leadership began not with strategy or systems, but with how you see and think about your beliefs, your mindset, and your approach to growth?

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The Generative Mindset™ workshop helps leaders develop the mental framework that turns challenges into catalysts and teams into learning systems. Participants learn how to think beyond outcomes and lead with curiosity, empathy, and purposeful optimism.

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Grounded in the principles of Manage From the Future™, this experience invites participants to move from control to curiosity, from certainty to learning, and from managing performance to cultivating potential. 

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In this session, participants will learn how to:

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• Understand and apply the principles of a Generative Mindset™.

• Reframe challenges using the Fixed → Growth → Generative progression.

• Cultivate core generative traits such as optimism, empathy, curiosity, and accountability with care.

• Foster psychological safety and trust as the foundation for team performance.

• Translate generative thinking into strategic action that drives innovation and engagement.

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Structure and Experience:

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• Synchronous components include live learning sessions, small-group dialogue, and scenario-based applications.

• Asynchronous components include reflective journaling, guided self-assessments, and targeted reading excerpts from Manage From the Future™: The Generative Manager™.

• Participants receive a digital or printed workbook aligned with workshop exercises and follow-up practices for daily leadership integration.​

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Key Modules:

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1. Understanding the Generative Mindset™

2. Developing Core Generative Traits

3. Building Psychological Safety and Trust

4. Applying Generative Thinking to Organizational Culture

5. Sustaining a Mindset of Growth and Possibility

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This workshop isn’t just about improving how you lead — it’s about transforming how you think. Participants walk away with a renewed sense of agency, deeper self-awareness, and the tools to create environments where growth, learning, and innovation thrive.