13.2 Stages of Group and Team Development
Storming, Stage 2
Characterized by the emergence of individual personalities, roles and conflicts within the group.
Norming, Stage 3
Conflicts are resolved, close relationships develop, and unity and harmony emerge.
Tuckman's Five-Stage Model of Group Development
Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning.
Performing, Stage 4
Members concentrate on solving problems and completing the assigned task.
Adjourning, Stage 5
Members prepare for disbandment.
Group Cohesiveness
The "we feeling" binding a group together.
Forming, Stage 1
The process of getting oriented and getting acquainted.
Punctuated Equilibrium (another type of group development)
There are periods of stable functioning until an event causes a dramatic change in norms, roles, and/or objectives. The group then establishes and maintains new norms of functioning, returning to equilibrium.
