Conflict isn't the problem. Your relationship to it is.
Most leaders have been conditioned to manage conflict to smooth it, soften it, or eliminate it as quickly as possible. This workshop challenges that instinct directly. Generative Conflict is conflict engaged for something: better decisions, stronger teams, more honest organizations. It is a skill that needs to be learned and a muscle that needs to be exercised. It serves to sharpen your own thinking, not to dismantle someone else's. It is inclusive, relational, and necessary.
This small-group, interactive session is designed for founders, executives, and organizational leaders ready to stop wasting time and energy treating conflict as a liability, and start leveraging it as the generative force it is.
You'll leave with a different relationship to tension. Not a higher tolerance for it, but an appreciation of it.
When: Aug 13th from 9AM-11AM
Where: Hula Lakeside, Sunset Conference Room
What We'll Cover:
- Why the instinct to resolve conflict quickly is costing you
- Integrative complexity: holding opposing positions without compromising into one
- Metacognition: seeing the thinking behind your thinking, and directing it
- Altitude: the vantage point required to lead from inside conflict
- Curiosity as a leadership discipline: Blue Ocean mindset in practice
- Radical Candor as the communication infrastructure for generative conflict
Format: Small group | Discussion-based
Facilitated by Mark Hunter, MCC, Pinnacle Coaching
