2. 1. Change Management
ï‚— To create and maintain competitive advantage
companies have to be flexible about change and
continuously uphold the highest level of
performance and productivity form employee.
ï‚— Employee require counselling to cope with and
adjust to changes.
ï‚— Managers use counselling skills not only to
support and motivate subordinates during
period of change but also to create environment
towards attempting change.
4. 2. Downsizing
ï‚—Alteration of organization size and
basic configurations of their
organization chart. i.e., restructure.
ï‚—This means reducing the number
of employees needed to operate
effectively, a process known as
Downsizing.
5. Rightsizing.
ï‚— Adjusting the number of employees
needed to work in a newly designed
organization and therefore also known
as Rightsizing.
6. Outsourcing
ï‚— Completely eliminating parts of themselves
that focus on the non-core sectors of the
business, and hiring outside firms to perform
those functions instead a practice known as
Outsourcing.
7. 3. Managing Diversity
ï‚— A mixture of people who vary by age, gender,
race, religion and/or life style.
ï‚— Challenge to help people understand diversity.
1. Language Difference.
2. National Ethics Groupings.
3. Attitude and Cultural Differences.
8. Language Differences
Language Barrier poses real and
often serious problem, which
could lead to misunderstanding
regarding performance
standards, work methods,
safety measures, and other
essential working conditions.
9. National Ethics Groupings
ï‚—Employees tend to from strong ethic
groups on the basis of similarities.
ï‚—Grouping develop strong develops a
strong sense of teamwork within
group, it doesn’t promote working
with other who don’t share the same
language and cultural heritage.
10. Attitude and Cultural Differences
ï‚—People have developed attitudes
and beliefs about other by time
they seek a job.
ï‚—Some attitude and beliefs crate
frustration, anger and bitterness in
those at whom they are aimed.
11. ï‚—Manager who want to foster
employee tolerance are opting for
major change.
ï‚—Many organizations, women and
minorities are bypassed when
important, formal decisions are
made.
12. ï‚—Employees are adapting too much
more heterogeneous work
environments (race, class, sex,
religion and culture).
ï‚—Using counselling skills is a way to
manage diversity.
13. 4. Equal Opportunity
ï‚—The use of counselling skills can be
invaluable in organizations, which
implementing equal opportunity
policies.
ï‚—It can assist in tapping and
developing the resources of female
employees, and also in helping
men and women to adjust to one
another and work together most
14. 5. Entrepreneurism/Intrapreneurism
ï‚— Use listening skills to build trust and get employees
to open up and to detect problem areas, which
they may be initially reluctant to reveal.
ï‚— Challenge the employees in a pulling fashion in
order to get them to consider the problem rather
than defend. They should use counselling skills to
help them to take action when they blocked.
ï‚— Work through decision making and problem-
solving processes with entrepreneurs, so threat
they can then continue to use these themselves
and with their own subordinates.
15. 6. Mentoring
ï‚—Mentoring programs pair more
senior people in the organization
wit people who are junior in order
to help them to learn the ropes,
advance, and grow and achieve in
their career.
ï‚—Services that mentors provide
include;
16. 1. Helping mentee to understand
how the organization works.
2. Helping the mentee to understand
organizational politics.
3. Providing specific knowledge
about the broader aspects of the
business and the industries.
17. 4. Helping the mentee to set
development goals.
5. Helping the mentee to achieve full
potential within the organization.
6. Helping the mentee to explore
and identify learning needs.
18. 7. Determining with the mentee
ways of meeting those needs.
8. Acting as neutral and non-
judgmental sounding board for
new ideas.
9. Providing coaching in particular
skills.
19. 7. Team Management/Conflict Resolution
ï‚— Counselling skills can be used very effectively;
ï‚— To facilitate in group in
ï‚— Problem solving,
ï‚— Decision making and
ï‚— Conflict resolution.
20. ï‚— Following are some of the aspect of group
process, which can be addressed
ï‚— Goal or Mission
a) How clearly defined are the goals?
b) Who sets the goals?
c) How much agreement is there among members
concerning the goals?
d) How clearly measurable is goal achievement?
e) How do group goals relate to broader
organizational goals? To personal goals?
21. ï‚— Group Norms
a) What are the group norms?
b) Are they implicit or explicit?
c) Who sets the norms?
d) Are they being followed by the individual
members?
ï‚— Leadership
a) Who is the formal leader of the group?
b) Who is the informal leader?
c) What style does he use?
d) What power base does he use?
e) Is he effective?
22. ï‚— Decision Making
a) How does it happen?
b) Is everyone satisfied with how it happens?
c) Is there a better way?
ï‚— Role Expectations
a) Role Ambiguity –Are people clear their own and
others’ roles within the team?
b) Role Conflict –Do any team members feel pulled
in different directions due to dual or multiple
roles?
c) Role Overload –Are the responsibilities of the
roles manageable?
23. 8. Counselling for Older Adults
ï‚— Across the period of thirty years or so (age sixty
to ninety and above) that we refer to as older
adulthood or the third age, there is a fairly
predictable set of experience that all of us
encounter.
ï‚— These experiences come as the inevitable and
irreversible consequence of biological,
sociological and psychological aging.
ï‚— Some of the developmental tasks of later life are;
24. 1. Adjusting to decreasing Physical Strength and
Health
2. Adjusting to Retirement and Reduced Income
3. Adjusting to the Death of a Spouse
4. Establish an Explicit Association with One’s Age
Group.
5. Adopting and Adapting Societal Roles in a Flexible
Way
6. Establishing Satisfactory Practical Living
Arrangements
7. Opting for Pre-retirement Counselling.
25. ï‚— Positive Feelings about Retirement
1. Freedom from demand of work and parenting
2. Opportunity to expand on favorite hobby
3. Opportunity to try something new
4. More time to spend with family
ï‚— Negative Feelings about Retirement
1. Loss of identity and status
2. Lack of purpose/usefulness in life
3. Awareness of negative attitudes towards older people
4. Loss of income
5. Lack of friends outside present work
6. Boredom
7. Concern about future health
26. 9. Crisis/Trauma
ï‚— A crisis is defined as a situation of excessive
stress.
ï‚— The frequency of violent and traumatic crises in
the workplace is unfortunately increasing.
ï‚— Examples or trauma includes;
ï‚— Accidents leading to serious injury or death,
ï‚— Bomb blasts,
ï‚— Theft/hold-ups,
ï‚— Fire, raids, kidnappings, extortion and
ï‚— Other natural disasters such as floods and
earthquakes.
27. ï‚— People who have been involved in or exposed to
a traumatic event experience a range of
symptoms;
1. Shock
2. Unexpected frightening thoughts or visions
3. Nightmares
4. Loss of interest in everyday life
5. Inability to concentrate
6. Insomnia
7. General Depression
8. General Anxiety
9. Disorientation
10. Fears of Insanity of Nervous Breakdown.
28. 10. Consulting
ï‚— In many industries, counselling skills are extremely
useful of reworking with client as well as with
subordinates.
 Consultant can’t use a counselling style completely as
usually a consultant is hired to give answers but he
can use counselling techniques like;
ï‚— Listening and
ï‚— Questioning
ï‚— While interviewing a client or a subordinate to
collect as much ‘real’ information as possible, and
ï‚— Then later based on this he can offer his expert
advice and
ï‚— Findings to help the client to find ways to tied over
the crises.
29. 11. Upward Feedback
ï‚— Upward feedback is feedback from subordinates
regarding their managers’ performance.
ï‚— It involves establishing two way communication
and respecting subordinates by listening ,
valuing and considering their input.
30. 12. The Learning Organization
ï‚—A new paradigm is sweeping the business
environment across the world.
ï‚—This emerging paradigm, terms like;
ï‚— Information,
ï‚— Communication,
ï‚— Knowledge and
ï‚— Learning
ï‚— Have acquired a critical relevance to an
understanding of the nature of contemporary
business.
31. 13. Organizational Development
ï‚—In order to develop organization
effective training counselling skills
is required to be introduced as a
normal part of its mainstream
management development
program.