A new service provided by the University of Chichester launches this week, opening the door for businesses to get further business support from the institution.
The POWER Centre, run by the Psychology and Counselling department, will offer advice and guidance on employee engagement, team effectiveness, well-being at work, conflict management and employee selection.
POWER, which stands for People in Organisations and Workplace Engagement Research, can call upon the skills of the team of lecturers at the University to tailor their support for businesses, and as well as developing solutions, the Centre can also work in partnership to deliver them, something that not all similar companies can offer in an effective way.
The Centre is also unique in that the work it will do with businesses is able to be used to inform the latest theories in Psychology and Counselling, ensuring businesses are benefiting from the most up-to-date solutions backed up by modern research.
At the launch event for the Centre, which takes place on Thursday 17 February at the University’s Bishop Otter Campus in Chichester, attendees will hear from Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology at University College London and who has worked with many multinational corporations.
Dr Nik Chmiel, Director of POWER and head of psychology and counselling at the University of Chichester, said: “We’re grateful to have someone of Professor Furnham’s stature coming to mark the launch of POWER. I’m sure he will prove an inspiration to those businesses who attend to consider using the POWER Centre and our Psychology and Counselling experts to get the most out of their staff. We have senior people from large local businesses and local authorities already confirming their attendance, so this will be a good networking opportunity as well.
“POWER is made up of academics who carry out properly-researched and evidence-based work. The University already offers a range of business support services through the Research and Employer Engagement Office (REEO), and the POWER Centre complements those, as well as aiming to become an established research centre in its own right.”
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