Team & Organization Level Interventions

Team Interventions

OD practitioners may need to facilitate change at a team level depending on the circumstances of the intervention. Listed here are some useful and effective team intervention strategies:

1. Team Start-Up & Transition Meetings

   1. Implement team agreements & norms quickly

   2. Clear up disagreements at the start

   3. Make team goals and operations clear

   4. Start developing interpersonal relationships with team members

   5. Give team members well-defined roles

2. Confrontation Meetings - identifies problems within the team and makes a plan of action to confront the issue.

3. Role Negotiation & Analysis - resolves confusion, conflict, and frustration about members' responsibilities.

4. Work Redesign - taking a "helicopter view" on the job and/or task itself to make it more manageable and clearly defined.

5. Workout - point out and get rid of unnecessary work or tasks.

6. Intergroup Interventions

   1. Maximize group communication

   2. Add an overall goal important to all

   3. Find common ground

   4. Find a common, outside threat

   5. Trade team members (Anderson, 2019)