Organisational Role Analysis (ORA) is personalised confidential one-to-one consulting with a professional in organisational psycho-analysis and business strategy. Its focus is real role and organisational issues, and opportunities that one faces - action learning. It happens through a series of reflective sessions best held away from the workplace.

Frequently Managers start an ORA in order to explore in confidence a pressing issue or problem that needs resolution, e.g. tensions within a group, lack of clarity of roles. Between sessions, the Manager can test out ideas and actions formulated in a session, and make observations that become material for subsequent sessions.  Therefore, the overall process is iterative, where insights progressively sharpen and actions become increasingly effective.  

The method was first formulated in the U.K. in the 1970s at the Tavistock Institute and Grubb Institute. It is under continual development and refinement through practice in many countries.  The method is based on the insight that each of us has in mind, a dynamic image of the organisation of which we are a part, and it is out of this image - unique to each of us - that we plan and act at work. 

During the consultancy, the client and consultant work together to bring this dynamic image more into conscious awareness. This process helps trigger powerful insights, as it is mobilizing, and consciously using, organisational intelligence.