Videos and Webinars on Organization Development (OD) and T-groups
About Organization Development
Background: One of the traditional threads of congregational development (OD) practice
has been the field of organization development (others are ecclesiology, pastoral and
ascetical theology- for more see --
http://www.congregationaldevelopment.com/storage/History%20of%20Congregational%20Development%20in%20the%2
0Episcopal%20Church%206-1-12.pdf
Back in the 1960’s the Episcopal Church was an early adopter of OD. Billie Alban, an
Episcopalian, was one of the practitioners developing a chart presenting the various
mythologies of OD in a history time line. An early version of the chart is on page 40 of this
issue of Practising Social Change (Issue 2). It’s within an article by Barbara Bunker on the
history of OD.
http://www.ntl-psc.org/downloads/PSC_Journal_Issue02.pdf
To purchase the updated version see -
http://www.ntl-psc.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=61&Itemid=74
The OD Network has information in it’s “About OD” section on the definition , competencies
and principles of OD. http://www.odnetwork.org/
---------------------------------These videos provide a solid introduction to the history of OD.
Organization Development: Past, Present, and Future
Marvin Weisbord, Warren Schmidt, Don Swartz
Part 1
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/node/1582
Part 2
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/node/1583
In 1998, Organization Systems Renewal (OSR), a master's degree program at Antioch
University, Seattle, invited 3 senior organization development practitioners to interact with
its adult learners and faculty in a special session entitled "Organization Development: Past,
Present, and Future." The panelists were -- Warren Schmidt, formerly of UCLA, co-author
with Robert Tannenbaum of the revolutionary 1957 Harvard Business Review article, "How
to Choose a Leadership Style," Don Swartz who was OSR's founder and former head of
internal consulting at Weyerhaeuser, and Marvin Weisbord who was a regular on the OSR
resource faculty from the mid-1980's.
Interview with Dick Beckhard
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/node/1621
Dick Beckhard was among the pioneer consultants who in the 1950s invented the field of
organization development (OD). He pioneered T-groups and helped found the OD Network
in 1967, taught with Douglas McGregor at MIT, and in 1969 co-launched the seminal
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Addison-Wesley Organization Development Series. His innovations were legendary: intergroup confrontation meetings; responsibility charting; team building, all in service of large
strategic goals for business leaders.
Russell Ackoff Video Library
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/ackoffvideos
30 Years of OD History
Geoff Bellman, Edgar Schein, Roger Harrison, Marv Weisbord, and Don Swartz, the founder
of the OSR program, discuss their involvement in the last 30 years of organization
development at the OSR graduate program at Seattle University on October 20, 2009. To
learn about the OSR graduate
#1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axu1TrPAgfI
#2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCzh2ZVi2s&feature=relmfu
#3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knx4MRTGm94&feature=relmfu
#4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGtDE4Lgh1M&feature=relmfu
#5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_ZprwhmB0&feature=relmfu
#6 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEPstUPKXU&feature=relmfu
#7 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPryGiRYbc&feature=relmfu
#8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8-xhktuFg&feature=relmfu
#9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydSubhP02vo&feature=relmfu
#10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJEvhE4hYg4&feature=relmfu
#11 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FulnxV4_MtM&feature=relmfu
About T-Groups
Background: T-groups are making a significant comeback as an adult learning
methodology. NTL, EQ-HR and the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
have started to offer training programs to learn how to be a T-group trainer.
NTL – www.NTL.org
EQ-HR - http://www.eqhrcenter.org/
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Graduate School of Business, Stanford University –
http://faculty-gsb2.stanford.edu/bristol/Facilitator_Utilization_and_Development/gftp.htm
Between 2000 and 2011 dozens of Episcopal parish leaders went through T-groups
with the Leadership Training Institute (LTI then part of the CDI system). More
recently EQ-HR with Roy Oswald’s leadership have offered programs reaching
several religious traditions. Congregational Development.com uses a t-group at the
front end of its conflict management workshop
(www.congregationaldevelopment.com ). To learn more:
-----------------------A T-Group with Ken Benne - 1989
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/node/1610
Ken Benne was a co-founder of NTL Institute in 1947. He was a key developer of one of the
major adult education innovations of the 20th Century, the "Basic Skills Training Group," or
T-Group (in which people study their "here-and-now" behavior to become more effective in
life and work). In 1989 the Blue Sky video team met NTL members Edith Seashore and
Morley Segal while they were running their unique learning laboratory, "Why Interventions
Work." Among the theories they explored were those underlying the T-Group. We conceived
the idea to invite Ken, who was staying nearby, to put on a brief T-Group with volunteers
from the lab. In less than an hour, he led group members to profound insights. Later, we
videotaped Ken as he commented on the tape.
May 2, 2012: NTL Institute T-Group: What is it? What is its history? What is its value
today?
with Ed Schein and Mary Ann Rainey
http://breeze.uliveandlearn.com/p98357058
June 1, 2011: The NTL Institute T-Group
with Barbara Brewer and Ed Mayhew
http://breeze.uliveandlearn.com/p48718298
Written material on T-Groups
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-groups
About T-Groups
http://www.shapingtheparish.com/storage/About%20T-groups.pdf
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