Sociometry For Teams; Making The Invisible Visible

Every team has an official structure. And then there is the structure that actually shapes how work gets done: who trusts whom, who influences the group, who people turn to, whose contribution is overlooked, where alliances form and where communication gets blocked. Problems that appear structural may sometimes arise from tensions between formal roles and informal relationships.

Sociometry can be used in simple and joyful ways to help people connect, participate and discover common ground. It can also open up more honest conversations about trust, influence, power and exclusion. Sociometric interventions can make agreement and disagreement quickly visible, broaden whom people turn to, and bring previously overlooked contributions into the group. They can help a team move beyond established patterns and develop new roles, relationships and ways of working.

The programme is designed for leaders, HR leaders, HR consultants, OD consultants, coaches and facilitators who work with teams.

About The Facilitator:

Aruna Gopakumar is the Founder-Director of The School of You and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the psychotherapy field (TSTA-P). She is a psychotherapist, trainer and organisational consultant with over 33 years of experience, integrating Transactional Analysis, psychodrama and autobiographical storytelling into both her leadership development and psychotherapeutic work. She is the co-author of And How Do You Feel About That? (Penguin, 2022), has published in the Transactional Analysis Journal and contributed a Springer chapter on psychodrama supervision. An engineer and IIM Bangalore alumna, Aruna previously founded the leadership-development firm Navgati and has also served as President of the South Asian Association of Transactional Analysts.