1. Is Transactional Analysis Past Its Sell by Date?TA
Lightweight Fad or Significant Development Framework?
Paul Dixon, University of Manchester

2. Aim: to suggest to you that it is not, and…..
Explore with you possible applications of TA in learning and development
Take part in using some TA tools and ideas
Equip you to use at least one TA associated technique in your development work
Be sufficiently enthused to find out more……

3. The ‘Building Blocks’ of TA
SCRIPT BOUND
AUTONOMY
DECOMMISION CHILD
INTIMACY
POSITIVE STROKES
PERMISSIONS
STRONG ADULT
GAMES
DRIVERS
DISCOUNTS
CONTAMINATIONS EXCLUSIONS
Behaviour and Being
BEHAVIORAL, (FUNCTIONAL) MODEL, TA ‘PROPER’
Ego states
STRUCTURAL MODEL, ANALYSIS
TRANSACTIONS
Stimulus
Psychological Needs/Hungers
Recognition
STROKES
Structure
TIME STRUCTURING

4. Three Types of Applications
Stroke Profile
Egogram
Corralogram
Diagnostic,
Personal Development,
Coaching
Individual, Personal
Understanding relationships, interpersonal skills, conflict
Inter-relational Egogram
Relationship Analysis
Inter-personal
Group dynamics, analysis, team development
Group or Team
Time-Structuring

5. Strokes – (Social) Units of recognition
Strokes are as necessary to human life as are other primary biological needs such as food, water and shelter, needs which if not satisfied will lead to death
Observations about strokes
Any stroke is better than no stroke – basis of repeated undesirable behaviour patterns
A solicited stroke is as valuable as an unsolicited stroke
Individuals have their own capacity and preferences for balance of negative and positive strokes - stroke quotient
Our strike quotient is the result of early experience and parental training

6. The Stroke Economy - Steiner
Stroking quotient formed in early experience through child decisions/reactions relating to five injunctions/restrictive rules about stroking
Don’t ask for strokes when you need them
Don’t give strokes if you have them to give
Don’t accept strokes if you want them
Don’t reject strokes when you don’t want them
Don’t give your self strokes

7. + - The Stroke Profile – Jim McKenna 10 10
Individual patterns for dealing with strokes e.g. 10 +
GIVE
TAKE
ASK FOR
REFUSE TO GIVE
GIVE SELF - 10

8. + - Example 2 10 10 Leadership Management Style? Approach to others?
Motivation and drives? 10 +
GIVE
TAKE
ASK FOR
REFUSE TO GIVE
GIVE SELF - 10

9. Me
You

11. Ego States – Functional, Behavioural Model
Set of feelings, attitudes and behaviour resembling and copied from a parent or parental figure + and - + - + -
Autonomous set of feelings, attitudes and behaviour patterns in the here and now adapted to the current reality + and - + - + - + -
Set of feelings, attitudes and behaviours which are relics of individual childhood + and -

12. The Egogram – a self assessment and visual representation of the relative intensity and frequency with which an individual typically expends psychic energy (cathexis) in each ego state
Suggested that total psychic energy available remains constant – therefore investing more in one ego state leaves less to be invested elsewhere
Used in therapy (coaching/management development sessions to review current position, set targets for personal growth

13. CP NP A AC FC Leadership Style? Relations with Colleagues?
Change orientation?
Motivation and Drives? CP NP A AC FC

14. CP NP A AC FC Leadership Style? Relations with Colleagues?
Change orientation?
Motivation and Drives? CP NP A AC FC

15. FRED (Manager) DORIS (Staff) CP CP How’s the relationship? NP A AC FC

16. FRED (Manager) DORIS (Staff) CP CP How’s the relationship? NP A AC FC

17. Relationship Analysis - Theoretical Ideal

18. Relationship Analysis – Disjuncts

19. Time Structuring – Structure Hunger
Intimacy
Games
Intensity of strokes increases
Psychological risk increases
Activities
Pastimes
Rituals
Withdrawal

20. Time Structuring
Think of a group with which you work, project group or some such – draw a pie chart of how much time collectively in different forms of time structuring e.g.

21. Time Structuring
Think of your own behaviour in a particular group – what proportion of your time do you spend in each of the different forms of time structuring?

22. So TA………
Content of Development Communications training L and M Development Interpersonal skills Assertiveness Self Development etc
Types of Interventions Coaching/Mentoring Conflict resolution/mediation Group/team development …not just customer service training!