Presented by Devi.A Vignesh.S Sowmya.

R Vani varier

What is Interventions
The term Intervention refers to a set of sequenced, planned

actions or events intended to help an organization to increase its effectiveness. Interventions purposely disrupt the status quo; they are deliberate attempts to change an organization or sub-unit toward a different and more effective state

Characteristics of OD Interventions
An OD intervention focus on organisational process

apart from substantive content of an activity An OD intervention focuses on work team as the unit of analysis and change towards effective behaviour OD would view change as an ongoing process and would rely on a collaborative management of work culture

Team building Intervention

Team building refers to the various activities

undertaken to motivate the team members and increase the overall performance of the team.

Difference between Group and Team

GROUP
a number of persons usually reporting to a

TEAM
a form of group has some characteristics in

common superior having some face-to-face interaction persons have some degree of interdependence in carrying out tasks for the purpose of achieving organizational goals

greater degree than ordinary groups and a higher degree of interdependency and interaction

Team or work groups: Strategic units of organization

Much of the organizations work is accomplished

directly or indirectly through teams

Work team culture exerts a significant influence on

individual behaviour

Teams
Cross-Functional Teams: comprised of individuals with functional home basee.g.. Manufacturing, design, Engineering etc.-but they meet regularly to solve on going challenges requiring input from a number of functional areas Effective Teams: relaxed ,comfortable and informal High-Performance Teams: have strong personal commitment to each othercommitment to others growth and success

Broad Team building intervention

Team building

Formal group special group

The formal group diagnostic meeting

Purpose is to conduct a general critique of the

performance of the group .i.e. to take stock of where we are going and how we are doing and also to identify the problems so that we may work on The formal group diagnostic meeting permits a group to critique itself and to identify its strengths and problem areas and it allows everyone to participate in generating the necessary data.

The formal group team building meeting

The formal group team building meeting has the goal

of improving the teams effectiveness through better management of task demands, relationship demand and group processes . It is the inward look by the team at its own behaviours and strengthening functional ones.

Purpose of team building

To set goals and priorities
To analyze or allocate the way work is performed To examine the way a group is working its

processes(such as norms, decision making, communication) To examine relationships among the people doing the work

Process consultation interventions

Process consultation places greater emphasis on

diagnosing and understanding process events. Process consultation (PC) represents an approach or a method for intervening in ongoing system The main theme of the approach is that a skilled third party(consultant) works with individuals and groups to help them learn about human and social processes and learn to solve problems that stem from process events

A Gestalt approach to team building

Focuses more on the individual than on the group is

the Gestalt Approach to OD Goal of Gestalt approach Awareness Integration Maturation Authenticity Self regulation Behavior change