NEW from Polarity Management Associates
   
Polarity Management Associates proudly presents The Polarity Assessment™ for Organizations: A Five Step Process Certification Training
   

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:

  • Online demo to walk prospective clients through The Polarity Assessment
  • Results materials that are viewable on the web, downloadable, and printable
  • Key decision makers' use of The Polarity Assessment for Organizations to address their key challenges and opportunities.
  • Marketing brochure to share with prospective clients

Coaching and Guidelines for using The Polarity Assessment to drive broader and more sustainable relationships and results:

  • Help your clients understand their organizational challenges and opportunities through a polarity lens.
  • Understand and utilize The Polarity Assessment as both an assessment and development process for organizations and individuals.
  • Increase your clients' ability to achieve and sustain their desired future.
  • Measure the impact over time of tapping key polarities.
  • Contribute to evidence-based research that will demonstrate the benefits of tapping polarities in relation to the bottom line and other metrics important to clients

Experiential learning from the perspective of being a Polarity Assessment Client and a Polarity Assessment Consultant by:

  • Including pre-work to support your learning with each other as clients and consultants during the 3.5 days
  • Designing the training applied to your real world projects

A 400+ page Consultant Guidebook and Design Team Workbook including:

  • Detailed, step-by-step instructions for how to lead your client through a Polarity Assessment
  • Logistics requirements for each step in the process
  • Tips and advice for consultants and their clients

Your personal Polarity Assessment Consultant Account and Online Dashboard where you can:

  • Administer Polarity Assessment Client Assessments
  • Store your personal library of maps created with clients
  • Access PMA's public library of assessments you can adapt or adopt for your client work

Follow-up support after our 3.5 days together which includes:

  • Three 90-minute blocks of advanced Polarity Assessment Training and Polarity Assessment Mentoring Support

Eligibility for Master Coach Certification that will enable you to:

  • Be part of a team in delivering The Polarity Assessment training and certification
  • Be a mentor, coach and partner for newly trained and certified Polarity Assessment Consultants
  • Be listed on our website (and yours) as a Certified Polarity Assessment Master Coach
If you have any questions, please contact Linda Williams at Linda@polaritymanagement.com.  
 
   
  Polarity ThinkingTM works best where conventional methods fail.
     
  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.  


Polarity Thinking is the one supplement for all your organization’s initiatives to create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Polarity Thinking supplements, and significantly increases, the effectiveness of corporate leadership best practices, leadership and change management training, problem solving training, and strategic business planning.

Polarity Management Associates' consulting services, products and programs are available for you to train your own internal staff and/or your external consultants.
  Use Polarity ThinkingTM to Gain and Maintain High Performance.

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.
 
  Polarity ThinkingTM provides:

  • Clear guidelines for determining, within a complex set of issues, which are essentially problems you can solve and which are polarities you leverage.
     
  • A user-friendly model for seeing the structure of all polarities clearly -
    How polarities look.
     
  • A set of principles that explain the dynamics of all polarities -
    How polarities work.
     
  • Action steps for addressing self-identified polarities in order to bring immediate and sustained value to your organization.
 
  Polarity ThinkingTM adds value to organizations

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.
 
 
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