Developmental Stage and Process of Team Based on Tuckman's Model

Table of Contents

Introduction of the Team3

Introduction3

Tuckman's Model of Team Development3

Discussion6

1. Initial Meeting (Forming)6

2. Work got into the next level (Storming)7

3. Work got into the flow (Norming)7

4. Achievements began to show up (Performing)8

5. Project Ended (Adjourning)8

Conclusion8

References9

Developmental Stage and Process of Team Based on Tuckman's Model

Introduction of the Team

Our company was a FMCG and it was launching a new product. There was definitely a need of marketing that product in order to increase its revenues. It hired a team of few individuals for its sales team. And I was the team leader and we had seven people in our team that we hired. The team members that we hired were experienced and fresh both, but all were suitable for the work needed to be done in order to sell the product that we launched. They all were good at presentation and communication skills that were required. Now let's relate the steps that we gone through to the theoretical model given by Bruce W. Tuckman about team development.

Introduction

According to Susan M. Heathfield a team is a group of people comprised in an organized way in order to work together with cooperation and interdependence to fulfill the needs of their customers by accomplishing goals set for them.

Tuckman's Model of Team Development

Although Bruce Tuckman is renowned due to the article written by him on 'Developmental sequence in small groups', which was published in the year 1965, educational research and educational psychology are the areas he is expert on. Though there are different models available on group development by different people but Tuckman's developed stages by the labels of forming, storming, norming and performing is the model which is commonly referred (Tuckman, 1965).

The basic four stage model developed by Tuckman on his initial job after graduation school at the Naval Medical Research Institute. He along with his small group of social psychologists analyzed the behavior of small group as it was applicable to the U.S. Navy of small crew vessels and stations. The model has not been derived by his original research, but in fact from a review of 50 different articles, many of them were psychoanalytic studies of therapy and T-groups. In the phase of searching for a developmental sequence that would be compatible to most of the groups in these studies, Tuckman at the initial phase called the four stages: namely orientation, testing and dependence; then the second called conflict; next comes the group cohesion; and at the last it was functional role-relatedness.

Although these titles were not actually easy to pronounce, Tuckman then renamed these four stages forming, storming, norming, and performing. Tuckman's four stages produced by him have been well renowned for group development for more than 50 years now, this harmonization between these labels was designed in such a way which is easy to memorize and that is sufficient to promote its popularity without any doubt. Initially how he described them is given below:

Forming

Any Group at the beginning concern itself with an ...