Prism Work Psychology: Performance through People

What is it?

Every organisation is seeking to optimise performance, and people are arguably the single most important factor in this.

Some organisations are seeking to be the best possible place they can be to come to work.

However, can psychology really help?

Work psychology brings an evidence-based understanding about what influences people’s ability to deliver performance. This can be self-management, working with others or leading teams/organisations.

How does it work?

Applying work psychology to people challenges has a number of benefits:

• properly defining the people related aspects of the challenge.

• a systematic approach to identifying the relevant sources of evidence (within and beyond your organisation) to inform interventions that have a realistic chance of success.

• ongoing evaluation to enable approaches to be adjusted and establish overall impact.

In contrast, it avoids assuming the nature of the issue, doesn’t rely on leadership fads.

More practically, what’s covered?

As an experienced senior leader, chartered occupational (work) psychologist and chartered coaching psychologist Gordon enjoys working with organisations in areas including:

• Creating values, skills and behavioural frameworks

• Organisational culture – defining, creating and embedding

• Board, executive and team development

• Leadership & management development

• Performance mindset, motivation & habits

• Wellbeing and resilience

• Workplace mediation

• Coaching (individual and team)

• Neurodiversity support

• Personality and work-preferences profiling

• Assessment, selection and recruitment

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The stability of some overseas governments is a key priority for the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office. Corruption significantly undermines public trust and confidence and limits effective performance. Corruption includes nepotistic recruiting.

Creating evidence-based effective recruitment practices, training senior public officials in their use, and working alongside them to role-model their implementation led to significant public sector change. The project was commended for its thoroughness and practical focus on changing attitudes and behaviours in a Western Balkans state.

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Recently a Chief Operating Officer of a large organisation described how their senior leadership teams were full of good people, but the focus on performance was not effective.

We created interactive and practical facilitated one day events for each team. Helping them explore their assumptions about priorities, performance, motivation and the clarity they create for others. They developed commitments to new performance focused habits. Enabling a new more focused drive for improvement.

Could we help you?

Let’s have an initial chat about your challenges and whether work psychology might help you achieve what you aspire to.