OD Interventions

A hundred pages of facilitation technique: session openers, icebreakers, ways to get a quiet group talking, energisers, and how to close a session so the decisions survive it. Written for people running the room, not planning it.

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Ready to run team building exercises organised by the stage the team is in, with facilitator tips for each. Includes meeting check-ins and openers you can use on a Tuesday morning without preparation.

University of California, Berkeley

A short paper on why team building only works when it is aimed at the whole system rather than one group. It argues for training an organisational team together instead of sending people on courses one by one.

Orok B. Arrey

An article on why introducing total quality management is really an organisational change project. It shows how leadership, culture and empowerment decide the outcome, and why treating TQM as a technique alone leads to failure.

Roland Berces and Zoltan Hegyi