Professional Services

Is burnout a problem in your workplace?

Contact me for guidance in how to prevent, alleviate, or support recovery from burnout. My services can be aligned to the needs of:

• individuals,
• health and safety professionals, and
• leaders at all levels.

Services include:

Learning and development (click for details)

Could your workplace benefit from a better understanding of burnout (and how to recognise it early)? Could your leaders benefit from frameworks and tools that can help prevent or alleviate burnout? Contact me about coaching, training, and professional development options.

Risk assessments (click for details)

Is there a high risk of burnout in your workplace, occupation, team, or job? What are the key problems, issues, and psychosocial hazards that need attention? What critical resources are missing? Contact me for help with risk assessments.

Actions and controls (click for details)

You may know where the problems are, but you may not know what can you do about them. What systems, resources, tools, practices, and work design changes will make a difference? What actions and controls meet the regulator’s expectations? Contact me for help with psychosocial hazard controls.

Could you or your team benefit from Dr Searle’s expert support in managing risks associated with psychosocial hazards at work? What about help with developing psychologically healthy work environments?

Services include:

Assessments and investigations (click for details)

• Independent investigation of events and cases involving psychosocial hazards;
• Assessment of situational challenges including psychosocial hazards and safety culture (using surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, document reviews, and other techniques);
• Evaluation of mechanisms that can help control psychosocial risks (e.g., systems, policies, and resources);
• Strategic review of preventive, alleviative, and rehabilitative defences against psychological injuries;
• Gap analysis of compliance with regulations on psychosocial risk management; and
• Bespoke reports and presentations (guaranteed AI-free).

Advice, support, and professional development (click for details)

• Guidance on interpreting regulatory requirements and regulator expectations in terms of psychosocial risk management;
• Creation of capability frameworks, design and delivery of training programs, and development of other resources to facilitate effective management of psychosocial risks and support of workers experiencing psychological injuries; and
• Creation of capability frameworks, design and delivery of training programs, and development of other resources to facilitate smart work design, healthy leadership practices, and psychologically safe work cultures.

Are you developing (or planning to develop) a new psychological scale, assessment tool, or workplace survey?

Dr Searle has helped individuals and organisations develop scales and tools in such areas as employee wellbeing, psychosocial hazards, leadership values and behaviours, and more.

Services include:

Project planning and management

What do you want to measure, why, and for whom? The success of scale development projects depends on a clear understanding of project goals, end-user needs, available resources etc.

Construct clarification

Lack of precision can undermine the process of developing effective measures. What is it exactly that you want to measure — and how is that different from similar phenomena?

Item generation

One of many tasks that looks easier than it is. Items should clearly indicate the intended construct (and no other variables) in a manner that allows a variety of responses.

Item review and Pre-validation

Items generated in the development process can have a variety of limitations. How suitable are yours? Much time can be saved by getting someone with scale development expertise to review your draft items.

Before committing to data-collection, it can also be useful to do pre-validation checks such as end-user cognitive interviews and/or assessments of content adequacy.

Validation studies

A carefully planned validation study administers the tool to an appropriate sample of people, allowing an analysis of responses to help refine scales and assess their psychometric properties, including validity. Other insights may also be possible, such as predictive indicators to support tool value, group norms to facilitate meaningful interpretation of responses, and identification of options for ongoing refinement.

Preparations for use

What’s next? A manual can help clarify the merits of your tool and support effective usage. Report templates can be developed to help communicate results. Training can be designed and delivered for those who will be administering the tool and interpreting its results.