TEAM INERVENTION

STRATEGIES
Module outline
• Teams and Groups
• Team building interventions; Leadership skills for
team building
• Sensitivity training (T - groups); Transactional
Analysis; communicating skills and group dynamics
• Developmental Activities based on Simulations,
Role plays and Games
Teams and Groups

• A group is a collective of mutually independent individuals with

separate goals who are brought together by common interests and
experience. Even though everyone shares information and resources
with other group members, each member is responsible for their own
work.
• A team is an interdependent group of individuals who share
responsibility and are focused on a common 
OD Interventions
• Organizational Development (OD) Interventions are
structured program designed to solve a problem, thus
enabling an organization to achieve the goal.
• These intervention activities are designed to improve
the organization’s functioning and enable managers
and leaders to better manage their team and
organization cultures.
Types
• Individual : Interventions pertaining to an individual.
• Organization : Interventions related to the organization’s strategy and
policy.
Individual Interventions
• Skill Training
• Job redesign
• Career Planning
• Coaching
• Counseling
• Transactional Analysis
• Johari Window
Organizational Interventions
• Managerial Grid

• Team Building

• MBO

• Quality Circles
Team Building interventions
• Skill-Based Team Intervention Strategies
• Problem Solving Interventions
• Personality-Based Interventions
• Activity-Based Interventions
Management by objectives (MBO)
• Management by objectives (MBO) is a strategic
management model that aims to improve
organizational performance by clearly defining objectives
that are agreed to by both management and employees.
• According to the theory, having a say in goal setting and
action plans encourages participation and commitment
among employees, as well as aligning objectives across
the organization.
• The strategy was formulated by Peter Drucker in the
1950s, detailing five steps that organizations should follow.
Sensitivity training
• Sensitivity training is a form of training with the goal of making
people more aware of their own goals and more sensitive to others
and to the dynamics of group interaction.
History
• Invented in 1942 by J.L. Moreno who created “PSYCHODRAMA”.
• Further expanded by Kurt Lewin, who founded the first T- Group.
• First workshop was conducted in New Britain.
• National Training Laboratories were setup in Bethel, 1947.
• NTL became a nonprofit organization with its headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
• Spread across the globe
Process