The Developmental Sequence In Small Groups By Carriella Soto Ruiz

At this stage you get to know your team members and the team leader will familiar you with the goal you will try to achieve. In our team Charlie has took the responsibility of a team leader and when we found out what we are working toward to achieve Charlie has define the task and then we had group discussion and clarify how we goner work as a team.

Work Team development is a dynamic and often difficult process. Most teams find themselves in a continuos state of change and development. Eventhough, most teams never reach full stability, there is a general pattern that describes how most teams evolve. There are five stages of team development, the first stage is forming. In this stage there is a great deal of uncertainty about the teams purpose, structure and leadership. Members are testing the the waters to determine what types of behaviors are acceptable. This stage is complete when members began to think of themselves as part of the team. The second stage is called storming. In this stage there is much intragroup conflict.Team members accept the existence of the team, but there is resistance to the control that the team imposes on individuality. Conflict can arise from numerous sources within the team setting but generally falls into three categories:communication, factors, structural factors and personal factors (Varney, 1989/Townsley). In addition, there is conflict over who will control the team.

The five stage Tuckman’s theory (1965) namely forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning focuses on the way in which a group handles a task from the beginning to completion. The main group work approaches are cognitive behaviourist, feminist, psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches. Knowledge of theory enhances effectiveness of group work.

Whether groups are formed for social or task oriented purposes, the ability to produce and maintain a sense of affiliation, peer support and collaboration is important for overall group functioning. The cohesion of a social group is produced through the establishment of a set of group norms, which are later defined as a guide for conduct accepted within a group of individuals. However, in order for a group to perform and produce results, the team leader should guide his/her team through the proper stages of group development, which includes the following steps: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Although teams should follow all these stages of group development, the forming and the norming stages are the most important,

Bruce W Tuckman is a respected educational psychologist who first described the four stages of group development in 1965.  Looking at the behaviour of small groups in a

Developmental Sequence in Small Groups. The article focused on two realms of group development: interpersonal relationships and task activity. He hypothesized a four stage model in which each stage needed to be successfully navigated in order to reach effective group functioning” (Bonebright, 2010, p. 113).

The features of effective team performance are set out in Brian Tuckman’s phases of team development theory, ‘Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing.’ This outlines the phases that a team will go through in order to become effective and reach maturity. At the ‘Forming’ stage of team development individual roles and responsibilities are unclear and each member of the team is concerned to avoid conflict with each other. From this point the team will go through the ‘Storming’ phase which is when they start to conflict as individuals put forward ideas which will be challenged by others in a bid to gain power and position over others. After this the ‘Norming’ phase follows and it is at this point that individual roles are defined and accepted

Groups do not always start off fully-formed and functioning. Bruce Tuckman's model of the developmental sequence in small groups suggests that groups grow through clearly defined stages, from their creation as groups of

The Tuckman’s stages of team development (Levi, 2007) will be used as lens to evaluate the work of the group presentation. The Tuckman’s stages of team development consist of five stages of forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning (Levi, 2007). In the forming stage we tend to know each other and figure out how we are going to run the presentation. At this stage, there was discomfort due to unfamiliarity together with confusion on how we will function together. The solution for that case was, everyone had each member contact detail, had a clear ground rules, as well as planned how we will accomplish our tasks. In addition, we also experienced the storming and norming stage. Levi (2007) says that the in the storming phase there are often

In order to evaluate my role within the group it is important to identify what makes a group. A group must

The team has managed to avoid the Storming phase altogether and I was lucky enough to jump directly from stage one to stage three. That was primarily due to engaging them from the very beginning with the challenges and goals the team needs to achieve. Gradually, the team moved into the Norming stage, when they started to resolve their differences, and work on achieving the

Following the forming stage is the storming stage. Throughout this stage, a high level of conflict occurred within the team. There were frustrations between team members during their meetings, as well as confusion regarding each

The objective of this paper is to critically analyze and reflect upon my group experience as a member of the “Earlybirds” team. The focus will be on the group dynamics, which will be evaluated in the light of the organizational behavior concepts and theories. Throughout the paper the considerable advantages of group work will be outlined, as well as its systemic associated negative aspects. Moreover, the individual contribution to the work, as well as the overall team’s performance will be evaluated. In the conclusion, main learnings and critical suggestion for me to be applied in future groupworks will be provided.

The storming stage is where team members are forced to address issues that might cause some form of conflict. In the storming stage, the team is looking for structural clarity and rules to prevent conflict from happening. The project manager needs to be assertive, actively listening to the members, and encouraging members to view other alternatives. It is important to involve everyone in discussions. The project manager raises difficult issues and coaches the team through their struggles. The pesky peddlers had their operating guidelines in place, and roles and responsibilities were clearly defined. At this point, students were supportive off each other and was appreciative of other’s skills and experience. The team responded well to the guidance of the project manager.

Tuckman proposes that groups develop via five stages; forming, storming, norming, performing and finally adjourning (Archee, Gurney, & Mohan, 2013a). The first stage, known as forming, involves clarifying the task and purpose of the group, and identifying boundaries of both the task and interpersonal behaviour (Archee et al., 2013a). For the presentation task we were randomly allocated into groups. This worried me greatly as I have struggled in the past with group members who do not contribute equally or see the task as important as other group members. To avoid this problem, the group collectively determined and agreed upon a number of ground rules. For example, we decided that all group members were expected to contribute equally to the presentation, all group members were expected to attend and contribute at all group meetings, and all group members would adhere to agreed upon deadlines. Having failed to do this in previous group assignments, this clarification stage