1. Stages
Team-Dynamics

2. Team Dynamics
Each person has a unique personality and identity to be respected as well as utilized.

3. Team Dynamics Creating teams is a delicate process.
It is always difficult to predict which individuals will successfully work together.
Having member input into creating the team may help.

4. Team Dynamics
To help balance the team dynamics, one should consider a variety of personalities.
A team with too many dominant personalities, may work in strife.
A social, empathetic person helps develop a sense of camaraderie and cohesiveness.
A hard worker encourages others to stay on task.

5. Team Dynamics
A genuine, cohesive, mutually supportive team does not form instantly.

6. Team Dynamics It takes time.
Psychological issues need to be worked out.
Division of work needs to be determined.
Responsibilities need to be allocated.

7. Team Dynamics
According to Bruce W. Tuckman, who wrote in the 1970’s about team dynamic, teams go through 4 main stages before becoming a unified team.
Bruce W. Tuckman

8. Team Dynamics

9. Stage – 1 Forming
Forming is the stage when team members are unsure about what they are doing and how they will contribute to the team.
Their focus is on understanding the team’s goals and their role in the team.
They worry about whether the other team members will accept them.
Team members look for clarification from their leader.

10. Stage – 2 Storming
Storming -Team members test their limits as they try to get their act together
This stage is marked by conflict
Members vs. other members
Members vs. leader
Responsibilities, dominance, and informal communication needs to be resolved.

11. Stage – 3 Norming Norming follows storming
Teams have succeeded in resolving their conflicts
They are more secure with one another and with their leader
They effectively negotiate the structure of the team and the division of labor
The team settles down into a normal working pattern.

12. Stage – 4 Performing Performing -the teams behave in a mature fashion
They focus on accomplishing their goals
This stage marked by direct, 2-way communication among team members.
The team is operating at peak capacity.

13. Debriefing
Have you experienced any of these stages when working in a team –based project?
What stage is the most difficult to understand and to apply?
How does this information help a team increase its effectiveness?