Group/Team Development – 4 Stages
(based on Tuckman's Stages of Group Development, 1965)

FORMING

 STORMING NORMING PERFORMING

  • orientation period

  • polite / superficial behavior

  • differences: hidden

  • conflict: suppressed

  • productivity: low (mostly social behavior)

  • emergence of individual personalities

  • beginning conflicts (visible)

  • battle for control / influence

  • potential formation of subgroups

  • productivity: low

  • development of rules / norms
  • more efficient task accomplishment
  • conflict: suppressed
  • productivity: improved
  • uproblem-solving
  • focus on task accomplishment
  • frequent interaction among team members
  • constructive handling of conflicts
  • differences: visible but accepted
  • productivity: highest (work-related)
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