Marks and Spencer Team Development Report: Roles, Skills, & Analysis

This report analyzes the team development process within a marketing team at Marks and Spencer, focusing on the stages of team formation, including forming, storming, norming, and performing, and adjourning. The report details the author's personal experiences and observations within each stage, including the challenges and successes encountered. It highlights the author's skills, such as analytical and coordination abilities, while also acknowledging weaknesses, such as time management. The report emphasizes the importance of effective team dynamics and the author's role in fostering a positive and productive environment. It concludes with a reflection on the overall team experience and the lessons learned, including the emotional impact of team dissolution. The report also provides references to relevant literature on team development and professional growth.

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Being an employee in the Marks and Spencer company I have several kinds of roles and
responsibilities toward company. I am working in the marketing department in the cited venture
where I have to develop a presentation about the customer goods and services of company, sales,
market share, strategies and policies. For accomplishing this task, my marketing manager have
asked me to design a well skilled and effective team of 10 members who have knowledge about
the marketing and prepare attractive presentation. For this task of marketing presentation, I have
developed a team according to the concept of Tuckmen group development. During this period
of team development I have suffered from four stages of group development which discussed
below-
 Forming- In this first stage, all member have just came in the team. I have analysed that
all team members was too polite and positive.
 Storming- In this stage, all member shared their opinion, thoughts, skills, knowledge and
idea about the work with each other and tried to be familiar with each other. By this task I
have improved my interaction skill because in this stage, I have opportunity to enhance
my interaction and familiar skill.
 Norming- In this stage, people started to push against the boundaries established in the
forming stage. At this time , my all team member understand the required task and work
for design a beautiful and attractive presentation for company. In this I have also defined
all roles, policies, practices of the team to each team member due to which my
coordination and communication skill has been improved.
 Performing-While all member effectively understood the task and their responsibility
toward the team objective, all of them started work toward to prepare the presentation. In
this stage, I have improved my learning skill where I have learnt something from every
individual in the team. This stage assisted me in enhancing my learning, analytical and
observation skill.
 Adjourning- In this stage teams exist for a fixed period. At this stage, I have analysed
that I have effective bounding with other because all member has appreciated my work as
well as my behaviour. In this stage, I was too emotional because all member have to wind
up the team
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From this above discussion in the team I have analysed that I have some skills, strength,
problems and weaknesses during this phase which are discussed below-
Skill- I have analysed in the team that I have effective analytical and observation skill by which
I have effectively understood the objective of team. Further I am effective coordinator and team
worker because successfully I have accomplished my task.
Weaknesses- My major weakness is my lack of time management skill because in team I was
unable to handle multitasking task
Strength- My strength is my learning as well as positive attitude.
Problem- Emotional nature is my biggest problem.
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Zepeda, S.J., 2012. Professional development: What works. Eye on education.
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