Organisational Development

Customised Interventions

From small scale through to large scale interventions, People at Work can offer an organisational solution to suit your particular needs. Areas covered include culture change, morale/productivity issues, planning for change, assessing current organisational state, diversity issues, team building, strategic planning and organisational surveys.

As a first step, an organisational analysis is conducted to determine the key issues. People at Work, in consultation with key staff members, then develop an intervention strategy designed and delivered to meet specific company requirements.

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Team Building

Effective teams are good for business and good for people. And People at Work offers many strategies for team success.

Improve team performance. Transform a group into a team.

Our highly successful "Team Fitness Builder" caters for any size team from three people through to entire organisations. Recognising good teams and making good teams into even better ones, is the ultimate in team building. Don't wait until problems emerge. By recognising the importance of teams and the way they function in the workplace, you'll reap results you never thought possible!

People at Work specialises in assisting newly formed teams and helps to rejuvenate established teams. We help teams to understand the stages of team development and to track their own progress. Our skilled facilitators can provide leadership training and development and are especially skilled in coaching teams for success.

Have you ever sat in a meeting and thought, "This meeting is just not going anywhere." People at Work has a solution. "Thunderbolt Thinking" will unleash the creativity of your people and add back a little fun to those boring and often unproductive meetings. Thinking about issues from different perspectives and learning to appreciate other points of view result in more highly effective meetings and better organisational outcomes.

People at Work also offers psychological development to enhance team effectiveness. Psychological assessment tools such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, PinPoint and the Sixteen Personality Factor (16PF) are available. Customised workshops can be designed to suit your organisation's specific needs.

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Change Management

Unlock the potential of your workforce. Develop a culture of change. Challenge mental models!

People at Work specialises in change management with interventions designed for small scale through to large scale change. It was once said that "The greatest fear is fear itself". Alleviate fear and anxiety when implementing change. Involvement of all key players is essential to successful change implementation. People at Work understands these issues and can assist your organisation to manage change whether incremental change or radical transformation is called for.

A successful change strategy will inspire and motivate your workforce to embrace your vision for the future. After an initial consultation, our facilitators undertake a situational analysis to determine the most effective change strategy. We will then guide your organisation through the process of change ensuring positive results for all.

Plan to manage change. Don't let change manage you!

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Strategic Planning

All successful organisations understand the importance of incorporating strategic planning into their business practices. Organisations that invest in strategic planning reap the long term rewards of improved profitability, productivity gains, higher employee satisfaction and increased market share.

People at Work can assist your organisation to tap into its hidden potential.

Our skilled consultants can assist your organisation develop Vision, Mission and Values statements. Through consultative processes developed and a "top down, bottom up" approach we can assist in creating a shared understanding of the link between organisational Vision, Mission and Values to key organisational objectives and indicators.

Specific services offered include the conduct of SWOT analyses, situational analysis, organisational audits, meeting facilitation, obtaining ownership, commitment and buy-in of all key organisational stakeholders.

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Survey Design

Without objective feedback, managing an organisation would be somewhat like trying to sail a boat without a rudder. In the absence of relevant and timely feedback your organisation could be just circling around in water.

People at Work can provide a solution to all your survey needs. Examples of surveys include: organisational audits, culture surveys, team effectiveness surveys, leadership surveys, 360o feedback, performance appraisals, customer satisfaction surveys, marketing surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, occupational health and safety audits, assessing the impact of change surveys, assessing employee understanding of organisational objectives and diversity surveys.

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