Dialogue with the leadership through the sociodrama: from feared scenes to the development of competencies

Abstract

This paper presents an organizational intervention implemented in an oil sector company, based on the synergy between psychodrama and a social anthropological approach to leadership. Its goal was to identify the gap between the desired skills of supervisors and managers and the actual skills demonstrated in the real role performance within the organizational context. The suggested group approach is innovative, as it facilitates the switching between sociodramatic experiences of feared scenes and the ‘in situ’ and immediate cognitive conceptual approach of the emerging theme. The entire behavioral dimension was managed through Sociodrama and Role-playing, through the use of intuitive, affective, conceptual and functional approaches a recommended by the pedagogy of drama.