If you’re looking for support in your business strategic planning or workplace culture, you may be interested in hiring a Business Psychology Consultant. But what does a Business Psychology Consultant actually do? Let’s break down the top 5 ways we can help your organization to succeed.

1. Advises Employers and Top Leaders

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” -Maya Angelou

Top Leaders can often run into new problems and situations that they’ve never encountered before. One of the best qualities of a leader is being able to assess a situation and creatively problem solve to find the best solution, but that doesn’t mean that you’ll never need help to do so. Whether you might be too close to a situation to see the best solution, or you just need another person to bounce ideas off of—a Business Psychology Consultant can be the ideal collaborator for successful strategy. Their unique cross-section of specialities and tools will bring expand the possible solutions you can implement in your leadership.

2. Works with top leaders to improve employee performance, efficiency, and motivation

A good question that a Business Psychology Consultant will bring to the table in this area of concern is to ask yourself if the conflict your office is experiencing is caused by a single issue or if it’s a matter of the culture, or systems. Then, they’ll help you to break it down and find out. Once you know the cause of employee performance issues or motivation blocks, you can work on creating effective solutions.

3. Researches and implements methods of assessing employees, developing leaders

Bringing in an outsider to help improve workplace dynamics is often the solution you need to navigate the interpersonal complexities in a professional, detached manner. A Business Psychology Consultant can do this while building psychological safety, maintaining work-life balance, and diversity in the company.

One local department leader describes his experience, “I have questions that a Business Psychology consultant could definitely help me to navigate. We work in a high stress healthcare field, and we have to navigate the pitfalls of ongoing professional grief. I’d like to work on helping infuse well-being in the workplace and on limiting burnout; helping to solve differences between co-workers; and, helping to bring better professional boundaries into play.”

4. Improves methods of hiring, employee feedback, training, and management

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” -Edward Everett Hale

A Business Psychology Consultant will help you to develop these tools using science-backed research and methodologies so that you are not guessing, or trying to figure out the best policies on your own. As a leader in your business, you have a specialized skill-set, a Business Psychology Consultant can help you to broaden that skill set to include what you need to best serve your people and manage a team with expertise. 

5. Develops Training and Leadership Programs