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Polarity Management Associates proudly presents The Polarity Assessment™ for Organizations: A Five Step Process Certification Training
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This Certification Training will cover how to use The Polarity Assessment from its introduction to a client to consulting with it on an ongoing basis. In 3 1/2 days together we will provide you with: Polarity Assessment Marketing materials so you can show clients the features and value in using The Polarity Assessment, including:
Coaching and Guidelines for using The Polarity Assessment to drive broader and more sustainable relationships and results:
Experiential learning from the perspective of being a Polarity Assessment Client and a Polarity Assessment Consultant by:
A 400+ page Consultant Guidebook and Design Team Workbook including:
Your personal Polarity Assessment Consultant Account and Online Dashboard where you can:
Follow-up support after our 3.5 days together which includes:
Eligibility for Master Coach Certification that will enable you to:
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Polarity maps
provide the context for effectively
addressing "unsolvable problems".
They provide leaders with the insight
and methodology to effectively
leverage the most important issues
View two examples of Polarity maps. Strategic Planning: Should organizations focus on Preserving Stability or Stimulating Change? 1.8M DOC Problem Solving: Should individuals focus on their Work Life or Home Life? 1.8M DOC | ||
![]() ![]() | Problem Solving methods alone cannot work on many of your most critical issues. Polarity Thinking supplements traditional either/or problem solving with the ability to capitalize on chronic problems that are unsolvable, unavoidable, and indestructible. Strategic Planning is now being seen in many circles as managing a series of "unsolvable problems" (polarities, paradoxes, dilemmas). Change Management is usually seen in the context of problems to solve. Seeing any change in the context of a polarity to leverage will increase the speed, attainability, and sustainability of that change. Leadership requires the ability to both solve problems and convert chronic, "unsolvable problems" into organizational strengths. Polarity Thinking helps you both identify and tap the strengths of these chronic difficulties. Best Practices need to be sustainable if your organization is to benefit from them long term. Sustainability requires supplementing problem solving with effective management of the "unsolvable problems" (polarities, paradoxes, dilemmas). Polarity Thinking can give you the skills and techniques to sustain your Best Practices. |
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The research is clear, those leaders and organizations that leverage polarities well outperform those that don't. They outperform both in the short term and the long term. Polarities often go by a variety of names: paradoxes, dilemmas, contention, interdependent opposites, or wicked problems. High performance leaders and organizations have developed a tacit wisdom about managing polarities even if they have never heard the name. Their experience and intuition has led to a natural ability to, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "... hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." What is needed is a way to make this tacit wisdom explicit, so that leaders and organizations can be strategic and tactical about tapping the power of opposing ideas. When this is done well the inherent tension between the opposites is converted into a creative synergy or synthesis, called virtuous circles. The opposite poles reinforce each other in a positive way. When leaders mistakenly see a polarity to leverage and think they have a problem to solve, the tension between the opposites is converted into destructive synergy called vicious circles. The opposite poles reinforce each other in a negative way. Polarity Thinking helps leaders and organizations prevent vicious circles and create virtuous circles. | |||
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There are many ways that Polarity Thinking can add value to organizations. Polarity Thinking supplements either/or thinking with both/and thinking. This enhanced way of thinking can be applied in a variety of contexts, including strategic change, leadership, diversity and conflict management. Polarity Management Associates has ongoing partnerships with experts from a variety of disciplines. Each partnership brings the combined expertise of a subject matter expert and Polarity Thinking. | |