How to change business paradigms: 10 organizational development interventions

This practical book contains 10 interventions any facilitator can use to help a team to change their paradigms. These interventions can be used in both online and physical meetings. The interventions will help a team to:

• Recognise their existing paradigms and develop new paradigms.
• Change from a product to a customer paradigm.
• Reduce costs using a different paradigm.
• Change from a silo mentality to a customer paradigm.
• View a problem from a different perspective.
• Help a team to adapt to a new normal.
• Identify trends that may shape the future.
• Identify new opportunities from trends.
• Develop a scenario of the future environment within which their organization is likely to operate.
• Identify new paradigms for being successful within a future world.

Whenever you need to help a team or a company to develop, improve, innovate or change, you will more often than not, be blocked by outdated paradigms. However, if you begin your session with an intervention around paradigms, the team will become more creative and more open to change.

In this book, we give you 10 tried and tested 'recipes' for helping a team to change their paradigms. Like any good recipe we provide all the information you may need to successfully facilitate each intervention. This includes:

• The goal of the intervention.
• Who the intervention is for.
• The time required.
• The materials you will need.
• Instructions for a practical group activity.
• Instructions for getting feedback after the group activity.
• An explanation of why this intervention works.

Use these intervention as part of any work you do in:

• Organizational Development.
• Strategic planning.
• Cultural change.
• Innovation.
• Continuous improvement.
• Change management.
• Marketing.

In this book, Ruth Tearle shares the practical interventions she has used successfully as a sought after organizational development and leadership consultant. These interventions are powerful because they help teams to become more innovative, and more open to change. If you are an Organizational Development facilitator, a strategist, or a Human Resources business partner, then this is a book, to keep in your professional toolkit.