Professional Services


Organisational Psychology

OEC draws on the specialist field of Organisational Psychology - a knowledge and skill base derived from applied scientific research and tested strategies to influence how people act, how people think, act and feel at work. Methods produce measurable, replicable and often more cost effective results through "knowing what counts".

OEC knowledge and skills associated with the practice of Organisational Psychology includes the following areas:

  • Workforce planning and role definition;
  • Learning and development;
  • Leadership and talent management;
  • Organisational development;
  • Change management;
  • Recruitment and selection;
  • Performance management;
  • Measuring employee opinions and other workplace research;
  • Human resources program evaluation;
  • Consumer behaviour and marketing;

OEC Coaching

A range of approaches to coaching are practiced in the OEC Coaching Repertoire.
Examples include, coaching that is:

  • Goal-directed and performance orientated;
  • Solution-focused;
  • Systematic and professional;
  • Evidence-based; and
  • Dedicated to developing leadership and teams.

Leadership Coaching

Coaching in organisations is frequently concerned with developing leadership skills and capabilities. However Elliott (2003, 2005) has proposed that leadership coaching is a specialist form of coaching that requires knowledge of the leadership evidence-based literature and how to apply this effectively to particular situations.

A conceptual framework for professional coaching is presented in the following framework extract (1.3 mb).

Professional leadership coaching appropriately enacts expert applications of established and validated leadership theories through lensing in the reflective space of the coach-coachee working alliance. Refer to the framework above.

Such theories and models provide an interpretative framework for all coach and coachee implicit theories about what constitutes effective leadership in any given organisational situation.

An indication of what is involved in professional coaching for leadership development is presented in the following framework extract (1.3 mb).

Elliott (in Grant, Cavanagh, Kemp, 2005) has also advanced seven propositions or parameters of specialist professional leadership coaching: The Parameters of Leadership Coaching.