About Us

PEOPLE IN ORGANISATIONS AND WORKPLACE ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH

The POWER Centre is a research centre based in the department of Psychology & Counselling at the University of Chichester. We specialise in the provision of rigorous evidence-based solutions to help facilitate organisations, and people within those organisations, to reach their full potential both at work and in their wider lives.

The POWER centre holds five qualified Psychologists, with expertise in Workplace, Cognitive, Transitional, Social and Health Psychology, and four Counsellors/Psychotherapists specialising in Humanistic Counselling, Neuro-linguistic Programming and Arts Therapy.

The POWER Centre team use evidence-based approaches to research, identify, predict and resolve work-related problems that clients need help with, delivering bespoke interventions designed specifically in response to an individual organisation’s requirement or need.

We approach our work with organisations by discussing the nature of  their issues with them. We will identify and scope the nature of our involvement, the timescales over which we will be involved, and the deliverables desired by the organisation.		Typically our research seeks to diagnose contributory factors to effective employee workplace functioning through focus groups, interviews and surveys, although we may use observational methods too.		We can then develop a model to predict the impact and importance of various aspects of the workplace and make recommendations to bring about change related to organisational objectives.		We may then be able to tailor interventions, for example in people skills or relationship counselling, that facilitate changes in employee behaviours.