What We Do
Olive Branch Consultancy specialises in maximising employee relationships, engagement and productivity through a range of available interventions designed to enhance workplace relations and workplace wellbeing.
Mediation and Facilitated Discussion
Unlike adversarial approaches that can take courage but result in considerable suffering for involved parties, Mediation and Facilitated Discussion offer a timely and cost effective way of addressing disputes in the workplace.
Internationally recognised as an effective way to resolve conflict, Mediation or Facilitated Discussion provides a collaborative platform to restore and build positive working relationships.
Team or Organisational Assessments
A diagnostic team or organisational assessment can assist to identify issues that are negatively impacting team dynamics and wellbeing.
Diagnostics are only part of the story.
Determining solutions and implementing appropriate recommendations for sustainable improvement is of key importance in maximising individual, team and organisational effectiveness in order to scale new heights.
Coaching
Coaching is designed to appropriately challenge and enable individuals to become aware of, and reach, their full potential, particularly when a clear pathway is not evident to the individual.
Our coaching is as individual as people’s needs are.
Coaching key personnel in the organisation who are responsible for the development of others is a strategically effective way to improve organisational outcomes.
Workplace Counselling
Sometimes, the world seems a little less peaceful.
Self-doubt when demands outstrip individual resources for coping can arise in the workplace in all sorts of ways – organisational change, job change, relationship issues, conflict, grievances and loss.
Individual workplace counselling provides an employee with an opportunity to debrief, gain insights and determine ways forward in a supportive and confidential setting.
HR Consulting
HR Consulting offers support to senior HR managers who need some assistance to deal with significant workplace matters, to bring others on board and to ensure that communication is not received by ’empty chairs’.
Common issues include resolving high level conflict and workplace relations issues, managing under-performance, supporting an employee’s return to work and managing mental health in the workplace.
Professional Learning
At Olive Branch Consultancy we don’t conduct ‘training’.
Instead we take a constructivist approach where professional learning and engagement of the individual in the learning process is paramount.
We offer programs in managing mental health, dealing with workplace conflict, sexual harassment/discrimination and bullying, facilitating performance discussions and resilience.
What is the real cost of workplace conflict?
Workplace conflict can easily become very costly to the organisation where conflict is not readily or easily resolved in a timely manner. Costs include dollar amounts and significant ‘hidden’ costs. Avoiding conflict rarely resolves it.
No matter what type of workplace, positive workplace relations contribute to organisational effectiveness
Director of Olive Branch Consultancy – Megan Blair
Improving workplace relations satisfies a corporate sense of responsibility. Not only do positive workplace relations bode well for the organisation – increasing employee engagement, motivation, productivity – it has a flow on effect to other relations specific to that employee – optimising positive communications and wellbeing for partners, family members and friends.
Feeling connected is a vital contributor to the psychological health and wellbeing of human beings and something to which we can all contribute.
Our Services
Olive Branch Consultancy specialises in maximising employee relationships, engagement and productivity through a range of available interventions designed to enhance workplace relations and workplace wellbeing.
- Mediation and Facilitated Discussion
- Team Assessments
- Coaching
- Workplace Counselling
- HR Consulting
- Professional Learning