Consulting

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

People Solutions has unique expertise in helping companies reach their full potential.

• Strategic Partnership
  Aligning leaders, teams, and resources toward enterprise strategies
• Leader & Group Development
  Integrating customized initiatives with experience
• Employee Communication
  Empowering each individual to actualize toward mission & values
• Change Management
  Combining responsive people, practical applications, and sustained focus
• Business Metrics
  Collecting & reporting performance driven behavior
• Project Evaluation
  Managing program evaluation and stakeholder research & analysis
• Workplace & Human Factors
  Analyzing talent, environment, and critical factors and linking with available resources

Some of the more common methods of applying our expertise toward your strategic organizational vision include the following:

• Strategic Planning
  The process of developing and maintaining a close fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing opportunities. Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does and why it does it. A strategic plan represents a shared vision of what will be, provides a framework which will be consistent over a specific period of time, identifies an overall direction but not the means of achieving it, identifies the predetermined direction toward which short term actions will be pointed, and identifies the context within which the organization accepts or rejects new opportunities and assigns its resources to current services. It involves defining a clear organizational mission, setting supporting objectives, designing a sound portfolio, and coordinating functional strategies.
• Technical Sustainability
  The ability of an organization to develop a strategy of organizational development that enables it to continue to focus on and provide programs in its chosen technical area (health, education, etc)
  
• Organizational Learning
  The ability of an organization to learn from past behavior and experiences and use that information to inform and improve future actions.
• Program Implementation
  To carry out a system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need.
  
• Organizational Attributes
  Leadership Sets direction (mission, vision, and goals). Organization leaders must establish a vision, communicate that vision to those in the organization and provide the tools and knowledge necessary to accomplish the vision. Includes Boards of Directors -the governing body of a corporation or foundation which, by the authority of its articles of incorporation and bylaws, controls and governs the affairs of that organization.
  
• Organizational Strategies
  Capacity Assessment Method to measure an organization’s ability to efficiently and effectively carry out its core mission.
• Community Outreach
  Advocacy by an organization to the community it serves. “downward advocacy”
  
• Knowledge Management
  Deliberate efforts to maximize an organizations' performance through creating, sharing and leveraging knowledge and experience from internal and external sources.
  
• Monitoring & Evaluation
  Tools that make it possible to identify and measure the results of projects, programs or policies in order to adjust strategies and activities as needed, report on progress to interested parties, identify and share with others best practices and lessons learned, and improve the programming of new interventions and strategies.
• Networks
  Multi-organization initiatives to mobilize around shared concerns. Can include generic NGO networks or consortia, which are usually national level and focus on strengthening individual members and information sharing; federations of community based organizations and associations which are formed to encourage cooperation and collaboration among member groups; sectoral networks which comprise organizations in a specific technical area and frequently engage in policy advocacy as well as information sharing; and advocacy coalitions or alliances created to engage with national or local governments or international organizations for political, social or economic change.