Polarity Map®
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Our Approach

Polarity Management™ is the foundation we use to address relationship and performance issues. Employing this methodology, you will save time and resources as you overcome chronic issues, simplify complexity, capitalize on differences, accelerate change efforts, and resolve conflicts. READ MORE

The IGI Process for addressing relationship and performance issues involves partnering with you to achieve your greater purpose. READ MORE

The GOFORTH Principles will be fundamental to the success we achieve together. READ MORE
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With Polarity Management™, you will save time and resources as you:


- Discover that not every difficulty is a problem that can be solved.
- Distinguish between problems that can be solved and polarities which must be managed.
- Capitalize on new opportunities by effectively managing the polarities that accompany them.
- Understand how to identify and leverage the unique values diverse groups bring to your organization.
- Engage the right people at the right time in addressing issues and opportunities.
- Develop strategies leading to lasting positive impact.



Polarities are competing values that need each other in order to survive over time.

Examples of Interdependent Competing Values (Polarities):

- Inhaling AND Exhaling
- Activity AND Rest
- Stability AND Change
- Cost AND Quality
- Performance AND Relationships
- Individuals’ Interests AND Team’s Interests
- Clarity AND Flexibility
- Globalization AND Localization
- Centralization AND Decentralization
- Diversity AND Inclusion

Paired values like these are always competing and vying for attention. Sometimes you may be conscious of them. At other times you may not. You may manage some of them with ease. Others may stump you, causing you to waste valuable resources and limit your success.

With Polarity Management™ you will recognize and manage these competing values so they become paths rather than barriers to your greater purpose!
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With our strategic process you will...

- Clarify your goals.

- Engage key stakeholders in defining the relationship and performance issues impacting those goals.

- Clarify how those issues are influenced by culture and closely held values.

- Determine which of those issues are problems that can be solved, and which are polarities which must be managed.

- Understand how managing polarities will help you “get unstuck” and move forward faster.

- Assess your current performance and create a baseline to measure progress.

- Develop strategies to solve the problems and manage the polarities impacting your goals.

- Develop capacity to independently manage this process in the future.

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The GOFORTH Principles:
Goals clarified
-Ensure goals are clear and shared by key stakeholders.
Opportunities identified in environment
-Leverage the wisdom, talent and the resources that are available.
Fears addressed with courage
-Realize negative conditions (fears) are usually positives that have been overdone. Appreciate the positive in each negative condition and balance it by focusing on its opposite.
Organized and organic planning
-Be deliberate and focused when planning and at the same time remain flexible enough to incorporate new ideas and changes when appropriate.
Readiness to act now
-Begin right away to act the way you want to become.
Trust in self, others and the process
-Believe in and appreciate the wisdom that you and others bring to the process. Believe in the proven success of the process.
Higher Purpose is the success indicator
-Align your goal, decisions, and measure your progress against your “reason for being.” Ask whether your goals and actions are moving you closer to your overarching purpose.