Consultancy

What is Organisational Consultancy?

Organisational Consultancy offers support and guidance to individuals and groups performing in a corporate or professional environment. Through the use of proven approaches and techniques, conflicts can be understood and managed, the resulting stress reduced, whilst efficiency, productivity and morale boosted.

How Organisational Consultancy can Benefit You, Your Company and Your Personnel

Organisational Consultancy can benefit individuals, groups, teams, and entire organisations by learning how to productively handle issues many businesses face, such as:

• Rapid change and reconfiguration of teams, management, or projects
• Mergers or de-mergers
• Partnership formation
• Management of multi-agency teams
• Single Management and multi-agency conflicts
• Managing “difficult” teams or individuals
• Organisational survival in uncertain times

Relieving destructive and non-productive emotional issues encountered by individuals and teams can be accomplished through Organisational Consultancy.

Emotional Issues for Individuals

Doubts, anxiety, uncertainties, burnout, ill-health, or leaving a chosen profession due to stress

Emotional Issues for Teams

Low morale, conflicts, interdisciplinary rivalry, blame culture, decrease in productivity, loss of direction and absenteeism, dealing with abusive customers, dealing with organisational traumas.

What My Organisational Consultancy offers You

For Individuals

My Organisational Consultancy approach offers:

• Confidential sessions on role clarification and organisational dynamics
• New strategies for coping with demands and organisational stress
• Exploration of organisational dilemmas that block progress
• Executive coaching, mentoring, and personal/career development options

For Teams

My approach offers:

• Process facilitation
• Work reflection sessions
• Team review and evaluation
• Off-sites and away-days
• Psychological approaches to interdisciplinary and multi-agency problems
• Conflict resolution strategies
• Productive handling organisational dilemmas

For Organisations

I offer psychological approaches to help with:

• Organisational conflicts, post-merger culture and management clashes
• Dealing with the impact of major organisational changes
• Fining a strategy for organisational survival in uncertain times

My Organisational Consultancy Approach

My approach to Organisational Consultancy is psychological and psychodynamic and reflects my consultancy training with the Tavistock Clinic, plus additional training as a Change Agent, Facilitator, Group Leader and Executive Coach with the Institute of Group Analysis, Institute of Family Therapy, the King's Fund Centre, South West Thames Region, and Quorum Organisational Psychologists International.

I seek out continuing education opportunities in the Organisational Consultancy field to ensure I present highly effective approaches for the contemporary global business community.

I have published extensively on clinical, management, and consultancy issues and have co-written four books on Organisational Consultancy and the Management of Change.

My Consultancy Promise

I Will:

• Offer a psychologically sound, viable operating framework
• Create a safe environment where challenges can be met and mastered
• Create new conversations that enable participants to reflect on issues and problems
• Enable participants to find their own solution to their problems
• Help participants appraise their various options
• Energise participants so they can consider and undertake new and more appropriate actions
• Empower participants and teams to deal with change constructively

I Will Not:

• Offer a pre-packaged solution
• Work without first negotiating a contract
• Break any confidentiality
• Write about your organisation or any participant without permission

My Recent Organisational Consultancy Clients

• Community NHS Trusts, Mental Health Trusts
• Social Services Departments, Community Health Council
• Drug and Alcohol Information Service
• London Educational Psychology Department
• Polish Psychologists Club and Association
• Churches Housing Trust

How to Find Out More

If you wish to explore the potential benefits of my Organisational Consultancy approach for your organisation and any current organisational issues, problems, or concerns you may be facing, please email me to set up a confidential consultation.

Organisational Consultancy Publications

Sievers, B. Brunning, H. de Goojier J. Gould, J. Mersky R. (2009) Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations, Karnac Books, London

Brunning, H. (2003) Organisational Mergers – a Dance of Constructive and Destructive Elements, Organisations and People, Journal of AMED

Brunning, H. Bellamy, N. (2003) The Art of Transformation, Organisations and People, Journal of AMED

Brunning, H. (1999) Merger as an Emigration, Organisations and People, Journal of AMED

Huffington, C. Brunning, H. Cole, C. (1996) The Change Manual – Key Issues in Organisational Development and the Management of Change, Karnac Books, London

Huffington,C. Brunning, H. (1994) Internal Consultancy in the Public Sector- Case Studies, Karnac Books London