Tuckman’s Five stages of group formation and development.
Being a part of the group develop my skills and as part of a team it will help me develop my interpersonal skills such as speaking and listening as well as team working skills such as leadership, and working with and motivating others. Being part of a study group allows me to observe different types of study methods. My own study methods might be good, but I am also able to sharpen my skills by adding new methods that my group study members are using. Using Tuckman’s five stage of group formation we as a group has learnt in whole that working with 2 brains is easy than working individually.
This image shows the theory of Tuckman’s stages of group development
Forming to Storming
To establish clear objectives for the group at this first stage, we created team members to set personal goals so that we can see how our work will fit with the bigger picture. We also got to know one another.
Storming to Norming
Storming can make or break a team, so it's essential that we establish processes to track the progress and success of tasks. We started our concepts to flow in each other where we derived many different ideas we could implement on.
Norming to Performing
These social connections on zoom were especially important, as more of us work from home. So, we kept them up through the norming period and beyond. We decided on a particular concept and started developing that.
Performing to Adjourning
When the team settled into the performing stage, we focused on other goals and new areas to benefit our group. Since our group members are from each different course of study, we as a group had 5 different areas of focus of our minds. We explored gaming, animation, graphic designing and interior architecture designs where each of us worked on each other’s illustration to have a best of we can.
Adjourning
We are having positive experiences now after working in a group and this will make it easier if us, I believe to work with some of the same people again in the future.
It is important to remember that every team – regardless of what the team is working on – will follow these stages of team development. It is the job of the team leader to help see the team through these stages; to bring them to the point where they are working as effectively as possible toward a common goal.
As a part of the group, my team has helped me achieve the best I feel, each member of the team has given good efforts out of which I feel Berty has always kept things on track and flow with our lectures and lessons we learnt. All members Humal, Chengming and Hardik also equally contributed. Humal is really confident in talking out and suggesting new options to the team and Chengming and Hardik have really good creative skills which formed a great team. Each one of us from different courses like graphic design, animation, gaming and interior architecture broadens our learning style and skill set of creativity. Implications of work on each other’s art made our artefact more attractive and creative.
- Niddhi Soneji
References:
Five Stages of Team or Group Development. (n.d.). [online] . Available at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52ae6cd8e4b09af7f3cb0e53/t/55cab4dce4b06fab5e0c92ed/1439347932764/CA+TakeAway+Stages+of+Team+Development.pdf.
Challenge Applications. Stages of Team Development — Challenge Applications. [online] Available at: <https://www.challengeapplications.com/stages-of-team-development> [Accessed 15 February 2021].