Team Building and Development Report: Strategies and Analysis

This report delves into the critical aspects of team building and development, emphasizing the prerequisites for creating high-performing teams. It highlights the significance of employee relationships, leadership, and fostering teamwork, along with the importance of establishing clear team ground rules. The report examines the Tuckman Team Building Model, outlining its stages of forming, storming, norming, and performing, and the additional adjourning stage. Furthermore, it underscores the necessity of trust and transparency within teams and provides insights into measuring team effectiveness and identifying potential productivity risks and retention issues. The report also touches upon various team-building activities and training sessions designed to enhance team coordination and cohesion, referencing key studies in the field of team development and management.

Building Effective Team

Prerequisites before team development/ Training and
development activities
Creating an effective and functional
team is the indicator of a productive
and worthwhile organization. Many
pre-requisites are needed before
making multiple people work together
under a unified team mainly because a
constructive team will automatically
outperform others (Lvina, Johns &
Vandenberghe, 2018).
• Employee relationship.
• Leadership.
• Foster teamwork.
• Employer-employee dynamic.
• Team ground rules.
T&D activities to build trust:
• Group discussions.
• Training sessions on team co-
ordination.
• Group categorisation.

Tuckman Team Building Model
Bruce Tuckman’s constructive team development (1965) is a highly elegant and efficient explanation of team
behavior and other valued aspects (Raes et al., 2015). It outlines that with maturity and better abilities, team
relationships develop and also variation in leadership styles are seen. It characterizes the following important
stages:
• Forming.
• Storming.
• Norming.
• Performing.

Tuckman Team Building Model
The next two vital Tuchman’s well-grounded team development stages include:
• Norming: In this stage, agreement and team homogeneity slowly develop with clear job
responsibilities. Common group harmony leads to consensus team decisions. Team unity
is remarkably strong.
• Performing: Strategic team awareness persists. The team has appropriate clarity of their
assignments. With a common team vision, the team can stand strong independently with
minimal supervision from the leader. Additionally, in this performing stage, the team is
woven with enormous autonomy.

Why Tuckman’s Model
Slight modification happened in 1975 when Bruce Tuckman additionally included an
“Adjourning” stage. This very stage is highly relevant to the team members along with their
well-being. This depicts team break-up after the completion of a specified team assignment.
Before team building, this model has been so chosen to ensure chronological behavioral
development of each team member.

Measurement of trust and the team
effectiveness of the new team
A team will soon be fossilized if they lack adequate faith and
transparency among each other. With trust, a homogenous team will
subsequently put their diligent efforts in fulfilling their commitments.
Measuring team trust provides insights that strongly assist employers to
comprehend the following:
• Productivity risks.
• Retention attributes.
• Stored up problems.

Reference List
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Journal of Management, 44(3), 1001-1028.
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(2018). Team development: Definition, measurement and
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• Raes, E., Kyndt, E., Decuyper, S., Van den Bossche, P., & Dochy, F.
(2015). An exploratory study of group development and team
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