Understand the Stages of Team Development

Have you invested a significant portion of your career as the member of a team? If so, did everyone get along? Was it productive? Hopefully, your responses to those questions were largely positive. In reality, for most of us the answers can be a mixed bag. This week Gregg Gregory, addresses how to Understand the Stages of Team Development. In today’s world, most of us will be required to work within a team framework. Gregg Gregory reveals how we can leverage a better understanding – of the stages of team development – in order to preempt potential areas of conflict and accelerate shared success.
Understand the Stages of Team Development
by Gregg Gregory
I n 1965, Bruce Tuckman, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University, published his Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development. He proposed that there are four main stages that most teams go through – from forming the team,