The counseling process normally consists of the following stages:

Initiating Exploration Formulation

of action plan

Initiating This involves developing mutual understanding openness and acceptance between counselor and counseled. Exploration This involved understanding with the help of the counseling, the counselees own situation, his feelings, his strengths and weakness, his problems and needs.

Formulation of action plan

This involved exploring possible solutions and formulating action plan for implementing them to make the counselee the normal person.

Counseling and Industrial Relations When employee are affected by job related and personal problems that very much affect the organizational welfare besides their own. Hence, if his problems are not identified in the initial stages itself and solved, they may assume a serious proportion and ultimately affect the employee and organization resulting in poor industrial relations. Hence the organization should take these problems seriously and solve them.