What is Intergroup Development?

Intergroup development is an organizational development intervention aimed at improving working relationships between groups.

Improved working relationships mean knowing group members better, as well as what they do and how they work. This leads to a better understanding, higher quality communication and interactions, and better rapport with one another.

Intergroup development is similar to team building, with one key difference. Team building focuses on members within a group, while intergroup development focuses on team building between groups.

Below, you can see some examples of intergroup-level interventions.