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Problems to Solve or Polarities to Manage?

Submitted by clischalk on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 3:02pm
Date: 
Sat, 11/12/2011 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall Room 163

Speaker: 
Maggie Shreve, Sr. OD Consultant, Rush University Medical Center
Fee: 
Members - No Fee Guests - $15 (cash or check payable to CODIC accepted)

Overview

 

 

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Registration & Networking

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - New Member Orientation

9:00 a.m. - Noon        - Progam 

 

Whether you’re an OD practitioner or a coach, you’re bound to run into situations where your clients want black and white answers to ambiguous situations.  Seeing these issues as problems to solve can undermine your ability to be an effective intervener.  How can you help the client with what seem to be impossible problems?

Many management trends are described as movements from one way of thinking or acting to another.  For example, it is popular to move from:

  •  Individual to team
  •  Competition to collaboration
  •  Neglect of the customer to focusing on the customer
  •  Autocratic management to participatory management

Polarity management helps both you and your client think and act effectively in resolving issues that take these movements into account.  (Modified quotes from Barry Johnson, Polarity Management:  Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, 1992)

Join us on November 12th to learn more about Polarity Management as an organizational intervention, experiment with polarities in your life or work, and engage in deeper conversations about how this tool can facilitate understanding and new ways of thinking. 

 

 Presenter

 

Our presenter will be Maggie Shreve  from Rush University Medical Center.  Rush has used Polarity Management within its own Employee & Organizational Development Department and with specific client groups to clarify their pressing issues.

Maggie has been a Senior Organization Development Consultant with Rush University Medical Center for three and a half years.  She is currently Secretary and Program Committee Chair for the OD Network of Chicago.  Prior to coming to Rush, Maggie was an external OD consultant for 15 years, serving mostly small not-for-profit organizations and churches.  She is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).