Every day, I hear about management problems that are causing real strife in people’s lives. 

  • Too many people say their manager doesn’t know how to manage. 
  • Too many managers are frustrated with individual employee personality or performance issues. 
  • Too many organisations are investing in systems that will never realise their potential, due to unresolved management issues. 
  • Too many people are adamant that the situation will never change, which means they’ll continue to put up with this strife, often at a cost to their work, their home life and their own health and well-being. 

It all seems so unnecessary.

As an organisational development professional, I help organisations, individual managers and employees develop and stay focused on a clear vision, appropriate systems, targeted skill-building and walking the talk.  In doing so, I help people clarify existing dynamics, available options and their consequences, and I challenge them to do the right thing.

Which means that individuals at all levels are able to expand their circles of influence, increase their sense of control, and become better team players and managers.

The benefits are:

  • improved organisational performance,
  • increases in individual employee satisfaction across all levels,
  • decreases in unproductive interpersonal conflict,
  • decreases in stress levels,
  • more proactive problem-solving and decision-making,
  • improved relationships, and
  • improved health and well-being – including a higher resilience to stressors inherent in the work.

I am involved with organisations who make a commitment to improving management capacity, and am blessed to be part of shifting their entire culture from one of “dependency on management and blaming ‘them’ ” to one of “shared responsibility for proactive decision-making”.

I also work with individuals who are simply trying to cope with an unsupportive, undeveloped front-line manager and/or organisation, and am blessed to be part of their journey in either finding ways to operate professionally in these environments, or finding their way to a new, more satisfying environment.

If you would like to talk to me, e-mail me to set up a time:  joan@joanmariejohnson.com

If you are an existing client, or would just like to learn more, please check out the other pages here, including my sister-blog “Develop Yourself First”  and feel free to comment!  I look forward to hearing from you.