Human systems, ecological systems, mechanical systems, family systems and organizational systems have one thing in common. They are all designed to maintain the status quo. For example if you set the temperature on your furnace thermos staff, the system will ensure that the temperature does not change.

Organizations and the systems within the organization are no different. Implementation of new approaches, strategies or initiatives is therefore difficult to achieve. Because of the built in nature of human systems many new initiatives within organizations do not achieve the results expected or fade into the background and become the colour of the month.

As psychologists working with human systems, we have developed many approaches and strategies that can overcome the status quo nature within the systems. Team building, strategic and succession planning, quality assurance, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, are all good ideas and concepts. But they are likely doomed to not achieve your desired outcomes unless you address the nature of the human systems within your organization.

It is like trying to hit the bull’s eye on a target with a high tech arrow and missing the target completely. Then you come to an illogical conclusion that you need a better arrow (all the organizational strategies available) when the problem was the bow was never designed to shoot that arrow.

We can assist you to build the bow or change your systems so that the arrows you need to select are more likely to hit the target.

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