What is a Business Psychology Consultant and How Can They Help My Business?

Family-owned businesses have their own unique set of cultural challenges, and they are Syncovate's specialty.

A business psychology consultant is a professional who provides expert advising combining the science of human psychology with practical business application in order to improve the work environment for employees, improve productivity in businesses, and organize groups of people in companies.

When looking to hire a consultant to assist your team, it’s important to know that the role of a business psychology consultant can fall under one of two general categories:

  • INDUSTRIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL

  • BUSINESS

What is an Industrial-Organizational Consultant?

Industrial-organizational psychology is the field that studies the workplace and small group theory and applies it to personal and individual workplace issues. An Industrial-Organizational Consultant focuses on employees, company culture, productivity, morale, and team-building.

What is a Business Psychology Consultant?

A Business Psychology Consultant has a broader focus than an industrial-organizational psychology consultant, and applies psychological practice and theory to the big-picture issues. This may include business strategies, stakeholder relationships, market performance, and business operations.

The culture of a workplace—an organization’s values, norms, and practices—has a huge impact on our happiness and success,

-Adam Grant Tweet

What Does A Business Psychology Consultant Do?

  • Advises employers and Top Leaders.
  • Works with top leaders to improve employee performance, efficiency, and motivation.
  • Researches and implements methods of assessing employees, developing leadership, building psychological safety, maintaining work-life balance, and diversity in the company.
  • Improves methods of hiring, employee feedback, training, and management.
  • Develops training and leadership programs.

At Syncovate, we focus on Business Psychology Consulting. President and Co-Founder, Dr. Shannon Jennings explains, “When people think of business psychology they immediately see the value we bring to ‘soft skills’ and areas such as conflict management, but what is often overlooked is our ability to connect those concepts to systems thinking and organizational process and strategy. For example, if you are having issues with ‘poor communication’ in your organization we don’t just come in with an off-the-shelf communication skills training program (although we can do that!)—we seek to assess the flow of information across the organization and its network of stakeholders: who gets what information when, why and how. Then we seek individual, team and systems level solutions and interventions to develop the skills and processes that close the information gaps.”

As you work to put together a strategic plan for 2023, now is the perfect time to bring in Syncovate Business Psychology Consultants to help you address your biggest culture issues.

My services include helping you to:

  • Identify obstacles that are preventing growth or efficiency
  • Bring out-of-the-box ideas to refresh your business plan
  • Assess workplace dynamics, build healthy groups, and help to improve culture
  • Assist in business planning and legacy planning for family-owned businesses.

 

Family-owned businesses have their own special set of cultural challenges, and they are my specialty. If you want to get on my calendar, let’s start with a Discovery Session—schedule yours today.

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