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Elevate
Workshops
Where the learning becomes lasting practice.
By the time managers reach Elevate, the workshop and the action have already happened. They have a committed action from Prime and weeks of real experience trying to use it. Elevate is the reflect-and-refine session that makes it durable. We meet them exactly where they are, troubleshoot real execution with the community, and turn a single action into a habit they keep.
Focus Area · Elevate
The session spine
Reconnect
Bring the focus area back to life
Reflect
Turn experience into learning
Deepen
Work the real problems, together
Forward
Commit to the next honest step
Like Prime, every Elevate runs on a bespoke web app, never a slide deck. This is its backbone.
of commitments made in the room are followed through.
What an Elevate is for
Most development stops at the workshop. The session goes well, people leave inspired, and within a fortnight the energy is gone. Elevate exists for the opposite reason. It comes after Prime and after weeks of real execution, and its only job is to make the learning durable: to turn a single action into a habit, a conversation, or a sharper next move that survives long after we leave the room.
It is a working session, not a debrief and not a check-up. No one reports back on their homework. We look back only long enough to extract what is useful, then turn it forward. Because every manager arrives in a different state, the first principle is the one everything else hangs from.
Every outcome is data. Whether it worked, stalled, or never happened, it tells us something useful. We work with it, not around it.
What makes Elevate different
Built around exactly where your managers are.
A session that responds to the room sounds like it must be improvised. The opposite is true. An Elevate is one of the most prepared rooms we run. The difference is what the preparation is built on: not a fixed agenda, but hard evidence of where each manager actually is in their experimentation cycle.
How we prepare
We know where they are before the room opens.
It starts in Prime. We capture what each manager raised and committed to, then activate their first execution plan in Tensai. From there, Tensai coaches them and holds them to account between the workshops, and every thread tells us where they have got to.
By the time they reach Elevate, we are not guessing. We can see who tested, who stalled, and who is wrestling with what. That is how we meet managers where they actually are, rather than running a generic follow-up at them.
See how Tensai drives execution →The evidence we design from
The Prime transcript
What was raised, committed to, and quietly resisted in the first workshop.
Every Tensai thread since
The between-session coaching, and where each manager actually got to on their commitment.
The workbook entries
What managers wrote during Prime, in their own words, captured by the web app.
The challenges they submitted
The toughest thing on their plate, sent to the Partner days before the room opens.
The experiment-period signals
What moved, what stalled, and any shift in the group or the client context since Prime.
And we read the room live
The one thing the data cannot tell us is exactly how it landed.
We know where each manager set out to go. What we never assume is where they ended up, because guessing that, especially assuming people did not get to it, would be both wrong and an insult to the ones who did the work. So we surface the real spread in the room, then build the depth of the session around it. Most rooms show several of these states at once.
Acted, it worked
We open with
“What actually made that work, the move, or the conditions around it?”
Acted, it did not land
We open with
“What did it reveal, about the situation, the people, or your own approach?”
Acted, got blocked
We open with
“Given that barrier is real, what is the part still within your control?”
Did not act
We open with
“What was happening the moment it slipped, and what would make it fire next time?”
Adapted it
We open with
“What did you read in the situation that made you change course?”
There is no ranking here. The manager whose action failed often holds the richest material in the room. The one who did not act at all is working with the most honest data of all. We normalise the whole range out loud before anyone reflects, so the registration is private and truthful, and the spread tells the Partner where to take the session next.
A method for every room
Each domain draws from a library of facilitation methods. We choose for fit first, variety second. The Partner brings methods robust enough to hold whichever states surface, because the spread is unknown until the room is in front of them.
Never the same twice
We keep a rotation log per cohort and never repeat the same combination of methods within three consecutive sessions. A cohort that meets us a dozen times never sits through the same room twice.
Fewer activities, more depth
Quality is depth of reflection, not volume of exercises. Roughly one activity per domain. When we have to cut, the cut comes off the ceiling, never the floor, so no part of the arc goes missing.
The Elevate spine
Four domains, designed backwards from the last five minutes.
Every Elevate runs the same arc, and we design it in reverse: from the durable move a manager will leave with, back through the work that earns it, the reflection that feeds it, and the reconnection that makes it safe. Reconnect and Reflect surface the spread. Deepen and Forward respond to it live.
Reconnect
Bring the focus area back to life
We re-anchor in the Prime framework, normalise the full range of what could have happened, then surface where each manager actually landed. This is where the diagnosis comes from, and it is the moment we make it safe to be honest.
Reflect
Turn experience into learning
Structured reflection on what actually happened. Managers extract the learning; the Partner begins curating, deciding which two or three themes the spread in the room has earned the whole group's time.
Deepen
Work the real problems, together
The working phase, and where the value is created. The toughest live challenges get worked peer to peer, with the Partner coaching rather than consulting. The intelligence is already in the room. Our job is to draw it out.
Forward
Commit to the next honest step
No one leaves without a durable move: a habit, an implementation, a conversation, or a sharper experiment. They name the move, then declare a stance, and it is activated as an Execution Plan in Tensai before anyone logs off.
Coach and curator, not teacher
The Performance Partner talks for roughly a fifth of the room. The longest thing they say runs under eight minutes. They do not lecture or mentor. They validate, name patterns, provoke through questions, and connect what one manager says to what another said. The community is the expert.
The challenge board
Before each session, managers submit the toughest thing they are wrestling with. The Partner puts them on the screen in clean, anonymised language and the room works them, through group coaching, peer pairs, framework diagnosis, or live scenarios built from the real challenges. It is fixed in every Elevate. How it is processed never repeats the same way twice.
The delivery
Every Elevate runs on its own web app.
Not a slide deck. A bespoke web page, built for that one session and branded from your organisation's own colours, that the whole room runs through together. The bar we hold ourselves to is simple: your managers should recognise it as theirs, never as a 10X template.
- A room you feel, not a framework you are taught. Each domain is a coloured space the manager moves through. The spine is never named on screen. They feel the journey, they are not lectured on its theory.
- Built for honesty. Private entries stay private. The most sensitive reflection stays on paper and is never captured. Anything shared to the room is anonymised and held in framework language, never raw personal detail.
- A silent companion. The page holds the structure and the manager's own words. The Performance Partner brings every transition, every challenge, every word of framing. The page never speaks for them.
See it for yourself
Step inside a real Elevate, the way managers experience it.
We rebuilt a representative Elevate as a working web app from 10X aggregate data. Click through it beat by beat, all the way to the next move activating in Tensai. No single client exposed.
The durable next step
No one leaves without a move that lasts.
Forward is the fixed end of every Elevate. The manager names the kind of move first, then makes it specific. Each one is built to outlast willpower, and each is matched to where they actually landed, not where we assumed they would.
Build a habit
ConsolidationTurn the action into a routine that survives without willpower. When this happens, I will do that, with a named trigger and a check-in.
Implement
ConsolidationEmbed the change into a process or structure, a format, a template, a standing step, so it outlasts any one person remembering to do it.
Have a conversation
Consolidation or explorationThe next move depends on someone else. Structure the ask, rehearse the actual words, then go and have it.
Run another experiment
ExplorationA new or refined experiment, time-boxed, with a sixty-second pre-mortem. The move of someone iterating, and equally of the strongest performer extending a win.
When the room ends, the loop does not
Each manager closes by declaring a stance. Consolidation, when they are locking in something they know works. Exploration, when they are still finding out. There is no hierarchy; the honest stance is the right one. That single choice sets how Tensai coaches them between sessions: protecting the habit, or running the loop. And if the focus area is not solved yet, Tensai keeps supporting them until it is. That is where our guarantee lives.
Proof it lands
Troubleshot in the room. Proven on the floor.
Elevate is where the work gets honest. The plays that survive contact with reality get scaled and written down. The ones that did not get killed. The result shows up in the numbers, and in the way people are managed.