This online certification program on MPI (Management of Paradox Indicator) is designed for HR, OD and Consulting / Coaching professionals to become certified and licensed to deliver teaching, reflection and consulting processes and apply our tool Management of Paradox Indicator as an initiator of learning dialogues and leadership development. There are no pre-requisites.
In today’s world there is an increased awareness of complexity, ambiguity and contradictory values and demands, it is vital to utilize paradoxical thinking and a both/and approach to address your most strategic challenges and opportunities.
Based on research and many years of consultancy experience, we know that leaders, teams and organizations that manage to think and communicate in terms of paradoxical and complex messages outperform those that don’t.
The course will introduce you to paradoxical thinking and working principles as well as a user guide to the tool MPI. The certification course is for you to support and facilitate leaders who work to leverage strategic paradox, wicked problems, team- tensions, dilemmas, etc.):
The aim of the 4 day certification course is to introduce you to a useful working tool – the MPI – as well as to ideas, exercises and teaching approaches, where dialogue, reflection and development is on the agenda if you want to support leaders in becoming more innovative, agile, and profitable immediately and over time.
The Course
The course duration is 4 days from 2 pm -7 pm
It takes place as Online Zoom Workshop Sessions on the following dates:
September 4th and 5th 2 pm-7 pm
September 10th 2 pm-7 pm
October 9thth 2 pm-7 pm
All times are UTC +2/Central European Summer Time (CEST)
What you get:
Theoretical background for working with a paradoxical approach in leadership development and teaching – integrating a realist and a social constructivist view of organizations
The book “Managing Leadership Paradoxes”
Consultant Guide pages and tools
Consultant Access to the MPI – Management of Paradox Indicator Portal
Program Agenda
Session 1: PARADOX LEADERSHIP THEORY
Appreciate complex challengesand opportunities and see more of the whole reality. Identify paradoxes in organizations, try out excersises, approaches to teaching etc.
Session 2: ROLE PARADOXES–
Get go know your own personal role paradoxes and train– train consultancy dialogues following MPI assesments
Session 3: ASSESSING
Utilize the MPI – Management of Paradox Indicator tool to gather a picture of the current leadership focus of the test person. Prepare training period between session 3 and 4
Session 4: EXAMINATION AND LEARNING
Session 4 is the day where you present your experiences with the tool, results, and the subsequent dialogues – and we will discuss how to work with the MPI tool in your paradox leadership training sessions / coaching sessions / search and selection etc.
You are required to participate in all 4 of these sessions – and also to demonstrate that you are able to use the tool and apply an appropriate paradox mindset onto your assessment dialogues.
Afterwards: Use the Management of Paradox indicator into Your Context & Practice
Training and Development
Leadership and Executive Coaching
Organization Effectiveness Consulting
Strategy Development & Execution
Individual & Organization Effectiveness
Leadership Development
Conflict and Diversity
Sign-up
If you want to sign up for the certification course please write an email to lotte@luscher.dk containing the following information:
- Name
- Position
- Address and Country
- Institution for invoicing
- Email address – for Zoom participation