The Five stages of Team Development.

The Five Stages of  team Development

Each and every team goes through the five stages of team development. The first four stages introduced by Bruce Wayne Tuckman and its called Tuckman’s stage. These stage are functioning effectively together and delivering high quality results.

In 1997 Tuckman jointly with Marry Anne Jensen added fifth stage to the above for stages.

These five stages are

1.Forming

2. Storming

3.Norming

4.Performing

5.Adjourning

Stage 1: Forming

This stage take place the team meets each other first. In the first meeting team members introducing each other. They share information about each of them. And also they try to understand each other. They are effectively feeling each other how they work together.

In this stage team leader should guide the team to work together and it is responsibility of the leader.

Stage 2: Storming

The team starts work together, they move in to the storming stage. This stage is un avoidable every team specially a new team who has never worked together before goes through this part of developing as a team. In this stage the team members compete with each other for status and for acceptance of their ideas. They have different opinions on what should be done and how it should be done.

Stage 3: Norming

When the team moves to this stage they are beginning to work more effectively as a team and they are no longer focused in their personal goals and they are working for common goal. Working together as naturally and they are respect each other’s opinions and value their differences. In this stage the team has agreed on their team rules for working together how they will share information and which way they will use to solve the problems.

The team leader may not be involved for decision making and problem solving since team members are working better together. But he may involve the team gets stuck.

Stage 4: Performing

In this stage teams are working very high level. They focused the goal as a team. Members well known each other trust each other and the team is highly motivated to archive the targets or finish the job. Take the decision and solve the problems quickly and effectively.  In this stage team leader not involved in decision making and problem solving and only monitor the team progress.

Stage 5: Adjourning

In this stage the task is coming an end and the team members are moving in to the difference directions. The team leader should ensure the completeness of the task and if it was not evaluating what happen and take the lessons which learned from the project.

References

https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.php