People First Associates

People First Associates are based at Birmingham Counselling Centre. They are a team of professionals who can provide Counselling, Training or Consultancy for Organisations. The courses and services below can be tailored to meet specific organisational needs.

How we can assist:

• Employee Assistance Programs - We offer a program of Individual Counselling for your employees if they hit difficult periods in the working or personal life. This can help your company avoid prolonged absences, and greatly enhances the relationship between the employee and the employer. This can be particularly useful if the employee has suffered a difficult incident at work, such as assault, abuse or workplace-bullying etc.
  
  
• Stress Management Training - Stress is the highest cause of absenteeism and sickness amongst staff and can destroy morale and motivation. We can train your staff in effective techniques to reduce stress, combat it's effects and work more effectively.
  
  
• Team Building - Good Teamwork is the backbone of all business, without it profitability and efficiency decrease. We can offer effective and economical solutions to improve communication and relationships between teams and team members.
• Critical Incident Debriefing - People First Associates offer a critical incident debriefing program for individuals and organisations who are involved in traumatic events such as accidents, violent incidents or disasters.
  
  

Courses use a variety of techniques - group-work, role-play and individual work - and are designed to give participants practical skills to take back to the workplace.

In short, we can help you with:

Our previous clients have included Birmingham MIND, British Aluminium, Retrac, Emergency Services, South Staffordshire Social Services, Friendship Housing Association as well as Hospital Personnel, GP Practices, Mental Health Teams, Local Authorities and Commercial Agencies.

"The immediate improvement to our management communications and effectiveness and then across our organisation was eye-opening,"
E. B. - a General Manager in Birmingham