Group Development Stages

This article discusses the different stages of group development and strategies to improve group dynamics. It also provides an action plan for improving communication between different groups and best practices for creating effective meetings.

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The group dynamics involves various kinds of settings such as performing business
meetings with the employees, social gathering, and students learning in class. Since in group
dynamics the communication takes place between different group members and people with
different attitude and behavior which results in causing several hindrances while meeting any
desired goal (Forsyth, 2018). The action plan for improving the communication between
different groups is as follows:
1. Forming stage: In the preliminary stage, it is necessary to allow all the group
members to present their own ideas and behavior and later on, all the innovative
ideas need to be combined before the final formulation.
2. Storming stage: In this stage, the arguments are required to be given by the
group members that concentrate on sharing similar goals by the group members.
3. Norming stage: This stage involves various kinds of activities that allow the
group members to perform negotiations with the group members (Levi, 2015).
4. Performing stage: The performing stage is considered to be the final stage that
involves the participation of all the group members for carrying out several
activities in a coordinating manner.
The three major events which resulted in causing the meeting to be ineffective are as
follows:
1. The absence of the vital health care professionals who are required to
participate in the meeting for solving any critical health care issues.
2. The health care professional came unprepared while participating in the
meeting.

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3. The meeting turned out to be directionless and unfocused which created issues
among other health care professionals involved in the health issue related to
community care.
The best practices that can be implemented for creating an effective meeting are as
follows:
1. A meeting needs to be having certain defined and specific purpose.
2. All the members of the meeting are required to be noted and they must be invited
much before the conduction of the meeting.
3. It is necessary to stick with the meeting schedule and for that reason, it is
necessary to develop an agenda for the meeting (Stewart & Shamdasani, (2014).
4. The duration of the meeting needs to be compact and accurate so that only the
important points are going to be discussed in the meeting.
The group dynamics and meeting effectiveness can be accomplished with the creation of a
functional working infrastructure. The members involved in the meeting need to show trust,
honesty, and openness with the co-workers for carrying out the process of effective group
communication. The group dynamics can be structured properly with the clarification of roles
and responsibilities for the group members. Roles are being given to the group members fro
carrying out any particular process or operation (Dobbin & Kalev, 2015). Responsibilities are
regarded as the specific tasks that are being given to the employees involved in the meeting.
The strategies that are required to be implemented for improving the group dynamics are as
follows:
1. Conduction of the diagnosis for knowing about the team.

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2. Addressing the issues in a quick manner.
3. Creation of a team charter.
4. Enhancement of the team culture.
5. Building better communication.
The different stages of group development can be applied to the conduction of meeting in
the following ways:
1. In the forming stage, the group members are required to be cautious and polite.
2. During the storming stage, the group members need to test about the issues that they
are going to discuss in the meetings.
3. In the norming stage, one member provides values to the decision of other members
(Levi, 2015).
4. In the performing stage, one member supports another member for implementation of
the further ideas and plans.

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References
Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2015). Why firms need diversity managers and task forces. How
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Forsyth, D. R. (2018). Group dynamics. Cengage Learning.
Levi, D. (2015). Group dynamics for teams. Sage Publications.
Stewart, D. W., & Shamdasani, P. N. (2014). Focus groups: Theory and practice (Vol. 20). Sage
publications.