Psychologically informed organisational consulting explores the organisational dynamics of how people work together.  At its core is the understanding that learning from and then applying experience is the most powerful way to effect organisational change and instigate new behaviours and innovations.  It looks at the human interaction through the lens of current challenges, right here – right now.  This helps participants build a broader picture of organisational dynamics so as to best encourage positive organisational development.

The value of psychologically informed organisational consulting is in being able to relate the individual’s experience to the system they are in.  At its best it helps clients realise how they fit in to the work system and how both system and client influence each other.  It reveals previously undiscovered insights to assist both individuals and organisations in their development.

Utilising this approach can help your organisation understand and address its development challenges so as to become healthier and more productive.  Such challenges might include, but are not limited to:

Competing or unclear objectives stifling an organisation’s direction of travel;

Problematic team dynamics;

Tensions between stakeholder groups (for instance funders or investors) and the objectives of the organisation to serve a particular client group; and

Challenges associated with growth and scaling.

Psychologically informed organisational consulting is rooted in a psychoanalytic understanding of organisational behaviour.  It is based on the tried and tested application of theory to numerous real world situations over the last fifty years.

Psychologically informed organisational consulting is not management or strategy consulting.  It does not focus on outputs or outcomes.  Its focus is on relationships and communication within and between individuals, teams and organisations.  Engagements explore subject matter that is problematic to think about and by doing so assist participants to take up their roles more effectively.

A consultant will work individually, with a team from within an organisation or a group of individuals from different organisations, for instance across a supply chain or a group working on a project.  Regularly meetings, over an extended period of time forms the backbone of the approach.  Facilitated by the consultant participants will identify the challenges they want to work on and then explore the related intellectual and emotional dimensions of organisational life.  The engagement works both above and below the surface of the organisation as well as within and between the different components of the organisation.