Team Development Report: Stages and their Importance

This report provides an analysis of the stages of team development, focusing on how these stages impact team effectiveness. The report examines the five stages: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The forming stage involves team members getting acquainted. The storming stage involves conflict resolution. The norming stage involves establishing roles and consensus. The performing stage focuses on achieving goals, and the adjourning stage involves wrapping up tasks. The report emphasizes the importance of each stage for improving team performance and achieving the mission of the company. The report also references key academic articles to support the analysis of the different stages of team development.

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Executive Summary
The report has thrown light on identifying the different kinds of team development stages
which will be suitable for the growth prospects of the company. It can be seen that the
respective five stages can be helpful in improving the growth prospects of the team members
suitably.

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Analysis of Stages of Team Development in Improving Effectiveness of Team
Forming Stage- Through the respective step, it will be involving the period related to
orientation and making the individuals acquainted with one another. In such scenario, the
team needs to be introduced wherein everyone is polite and pleasant. In the forming stage,
there can be discussion related to skills of each member, project goals and timelines which
needs to be maintained (Raes et al. 2015).
Storming Stage- In the storming stage, it is considered to be critical stage as there
can be conflict and competition among individuals. In such scenario, the leader needs to
make the members accept individual differences for overcoming the obstacles and solving the
tasks with proper unity.
Norming Stage- After the storming stage, there is consensus which is developed
around who are the leaders and roles of individual members. In the respective stage, the
individual differences can be resolved with the effectiveness of leader and there is emergence
of unity. The performance of team increases due to positive leadership of the leader and
cooperation helps in solving the difficulties (Jones 2019).
Performing Stage- It can be seen that the performing stage can be incorporated which
will be well-established and the stable structure of the company can be suitable in making the
team more committed towards the mission of the company (Zhen 2017). The main striving of
the different members is to achieve the goals and improve the effectiveness.
Adjourning Stage- It is the last stage wherein the goals of the team are being
accomplished and the main emphasis of the team leader is on wrapping the tasks and gaining
competitiveness in the market (Zhen 2017). As the load of the work is being diminished, the

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individual members may be reassigned to the other teams which will be effective in gaining
more competitiveness.
References
Raes, E., Kyndt, E., Decuyper, S., Van den Bossche, P. and Dochy, F., 2015. An exploratory
study of group development and team learning. Human Resource Development
Quarterly, 26(1), pp.5-30.
Jones, A., 2019. The Tuckman’s Model Implementation, Effect, And Analysis & The New
Development Of Jones Lsi Model On A Small Group. Journal Of Management (Jom), 6(4).
Zhen, J., 2017, September. Application of Tuckman's Model in the Community Folk Team
Management in Community Education. In 3rd Annual International Conference on Social
Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2017). Atlantis Press.