The Stages Of Team Building | Self-improvement Coaching

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The Tuckman-Jensen analysis of the stages of team building has become a foundational piece in understanding how teams come together or pull apart, how they perform well or fail to meet desired results.

Tuckman and Jensen state that teams go through five stages of team development:

1. Forming—the search for commonalities

2. Storming-breaking away from false harmony into individual power displays, leading to rifts between team members. There is a tension in this stage between unity and individualism.

3. Norming-behavior in this stage is more about consensus between team members and more of a shift from “I” to “We.”

4. Performing-behavior at this stage shows that the members can self-lead. This stage focuses on problem solving and completing assigned tasks.

5. Adjourning-This allows a sense of completion for the team members. Otherwise, there can remain a festering feeling of unfinished business.

All successful teams need to go through these stages. And, time needs to be allowed for the teams to go through these stages. There are two points that need to be emphasized.

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