understanding teams stages in school for teachers

1. UNDERSTANDING TEAMS
STAGES
SESSION 3

2. Agenda:
▪ Understand the purpose of teams
▪ Consider different models of teams
▪ Stages of Team Development

3. STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT
1.Forming
2.Storming
3.Norming
4.Performing

4. It is believe that these stages are
universal to all teams despite the
group members, purpose, goals,
culture and so on.

5. Tuckman’s Stages of Team
Development

6. Stage 1
Create a sense of urgency
Pull together the guiding
team
Develop the change
vision and strategy

7. The Forming
represents a time
where the group is
just starting to
come together.
FORMING:

8. FORMING STAGE:
• Members are cautious with their behavior.
• The desire to be accepted by all the team
members.
• Conflict, controversy and personal opinions
are avoided.

9. FORMING STAGE:
Some believe that this cautious behavior prevents
the team members from getting any real work
done.

10. PURPOSE OF FORMING STAGE:
•The focus for group members during forming stage is to
become familiar with each other and their purpose, not on
work.

11. OUTCOMES OF FORMING STAGE:
• Gaining an understanding of the team
purpose.
• Determining how the team will be
organized.
• Who will be responsible for what?
• Discussion of major phases of the team’s
goals.

12. OUTCOMES OF FORMING STAGE:
• What will be the team’s schedule.
• Outlining general group rules (including
when they will meet).
• Discovery of what resources will be
available for the team to be used.

14. Stage 2
Communicate for
understanding and buy-in

15. STORMING STAGE:
In storming stage conflict and competitions
are at its greatest.

16. Dealing with
tensions and
defining group
tasks.
STORMING:

17. WHY IS THAT?
• This is because now the team members have an
understanding of the task and a general feel for who
they are as a group and who group members are.
• They feel confident and begin to address some of
the more important issues surrounding the team
members.

18. STORMING STAGE:
• Such issues can relate to things like the
group’s tasks, individual roles and
responsibilities or even with team members
themselves.
• The storming stage is where the most
dominant member of the team emerges.

19. STORMING STAGE:
• Less confident members stay in their
comfort zone and security of suppressing
their feelings just as they did in the
previous stage.
• If these individuals stay quiet then issues
may still exist.
• Every individual should take part in
storming process.

20. STORMING STAGE:
All members have an increased need for
clarification.

21. STORMING STAGE:
Questions arise surrounding leadership,
authority, rules, responsibilities, structure
etc..

22. STORMING STAGE:
Such questions must be answered so that
the team can move on to the next stage.

23. STORMING STAGE:
Once a team receives the clarity that it so
desperately needs, now it can move on to
the third stage of team development.

24. Stage 3
Empower others to act

25. The norming
stage is the time
when all the
team members
becomes a
cohesive unit.
NORMING:

26. NORMING STAGE:
• Morale of team members is high.
• They acknowledge the talents, skills and experience that each
individual brings to the team.

27. NORMING STAGE:
• A sense of community is established
among the team members.
• The team remains focused on the team’s
purpose and goal.

28. NORMING STAGE:
• Roles an responsibilities are clear and
accepted.
• Commitment and unity is strong.
• Agreements forms among the team.

29. NORMING STAGE:
• Leadership begins to fade as important
data is shared among team members.
• People develop a stronger commitment to
the team goal, and you start to see good
progress towards it.

30. Stage 4
Produce short-term wins
Don’t let up.

31. This is the final stage
where groups become
high-performing teams.
The team knows clearly
WHY it is doing and
WHAT is doing.
PERFORMING:

32. PERFORMING STAGE:
• Work and progress commences on the
•basis of relatively stable structure.
• Team members are focused on task completion and achievement.

33. PERFORMING STAGE:
• Productivity
• Action, results.
• Moving towards the completion of goals.
• Team unification and identity.

34. PERFORMING STAGE:
• As leader, you can delegate much of your
work, and you can concentrate on
developing team members.
• It feels easy to be part of the team at this
stage, and people who join or leave won't
disrupt performance.

35. A fifth stage was later added by
Tuckman about twelve years later
in 1977, which is called
Adjourning.

36. Tuckman’s fifth stage,
Adjourning, is the break up
of the team, hopefully when
the task is completed
successfully.
ADJOURNING:

37. ADJOURNING STAGE:
• Completion and disengagement.
• Separation and endings from tasks and
members.
• Some describe this stage as Mourning or
Deforming.

38. Stage 5
Create a new culture.

39. Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development