Prioritising your people for peak performance

Working life has seen many changes over the past decade. Businesses have had to and are continuously facing an ever -increasing rate of change in the workplace. A number of years ago statistics were in relatively short supply, yet today, almost on a daily basis, we read about the negative impact that stress and other problematic issues can have on business development and growth. Stress both at home and at work is increasing.

Managing this process is about strategy and tactics. It is also about the way people - your employees - respond to, and cope with, change. Not just the all too familiar knock-on effects of downsizing which many businesses have experienced, but also, on a longer term basis, understanding and capturing the complexity of inter-personal relationships and individual strengths and needs within the workplace in order that your business can achieve its objectives.

The introduction of a 'neutral' catalyst - the Counsellor, Coach and Mentor – assists organisations in unravelling the complex inter-personal relationships which can occur in the workplace and which may be creating obstacles for growth and development.

 Occupational Counselling Consultants

Occupational Counselling Consultants (OCC) was launched in 2005 with two specific objectives:

• To offer vital support tools enabling employers to optimise staff performance, particularly when circumstances - business or personal -are less than ideal

• To provide individuals with easy access to Coaching, Mentoring and Counselling outside of their workplace enabling them to focus on personal issues, career development, goal achievement, change management and work-life balance.

As a team of specialists we work alongside small and medium sized organisations as Consultants / Training Facilitators providing Performance Coaching, Mentoring and tailored Training & Development Programmes for the key assets of any business – its people – equipping them with the tools and resources needed in order to embrace the challenges created by the constantly changing process of change within industry and commerce.

We take a consultative approach with all our clients and before any work is undertaken, we strongly recommend that a full, completely confidential consultation takes place in order to identify your current situation, the goals you wish to achieve and any potential barriers that may prevent them from being realised. This initial process is conducted to ensure that we understand your business, any direct people-related issues and the broader context in which they occur. Only after this has taken place would any recommendations be made.

OCC HRD is run by Jeremy Ornellas, an Accredited Counsellor, Coach and trained Mentor. Prior to launching OCC in 1995 he worked within the Media, Sales, Marketing & Recruitment Industries for twenty years. He has contributed on Radio, addressing the impact of redundancy in the work place, written a series of articles on “workplace” issues for “Esquire" Magazine and co-authored a chapter “Preparing for a Job” in “The Trainee Handbook – A guide for Counselling & Psychotherapy trainees” published by Sage in 1999 & 2005.In addition he is a Volunteer Mentor for The Prince’s Trust, working with young adults who wish to control their own destiny by creating their own businesses.

Performance Coaching, Career & Redundancy Coaching, Counselling, Mentoring, Stress Management, Stress Audits, Employee Attitude Surveys, Employee Assistance Programmes, Tailored Training, People Development, Recruitment Interviewing & Selection, Critical Incident Debriefing