These are the four stages of team development. It's a model of group development proposed by Bruce Tuckman and its a result of the research taken over the years which shows that teams are developing passing through such stages. How does the developing of the team looks like?
Team work is important in almost every activity of humans life. Not only in sport and at big factories team work plays a great role. Also occupations like managers, negotiators, salesmen have a lot in common with working in a team. For example if
he manager doesn't know how the group works he won't be able to manage it correctly. He must know the four stages of team development.
The first stage is Forming. It might be also named as Testing. The emotions that are strongly connected with this stage are being polite but also impersonal, watchful and guard. This stage starts a the first meeting when the team is formed but people don't know each other very well. They only 'testing the water' not sure what might happen, trying to define the boundaries of their tasks as individuals and as a single entity and a norms in the group. At this stage questions and friends have their beginning.
After the first impression and the first 'good morning', the politeness and unsureness, comes a stage of being in conflict! Yes, that's right, a second stage is a kind of a battle when different ideas, points of view are coming out on the world and come against each other. It's kind of storm of minds and that's why this stage is called Storming. Team members deal with conflicts and their resolutions. Here, they meet challenges -- both interpersonal and duty-related -- that oftentimes present conflict or stalemate.
But the conflict should stop at the third stage. While its good at the second stage its disturbing everything at the stage of Norming. The Norming stage of team development is characterized by cohesiveness among team members. After working through the storming stage, team members discover that they in fact do have common interests with each other. While at the second stage very important is controlling conflicts (people after , the group that they want to sell something.
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