Blog blog…

Review Tuckmann’s 5 stage model – you will have studied this in other subjects – forming, storming, norming etc – reflect upon the model and your team’s progress.

I am not sure if this model applies so well when the group members already know each other and have all worked together before. I guess the forming stage was when we all completed the Team Roles Test and when we wrote up our team agreement. At this stage we were able to discuss what each others strengths and weaknesses were and set standards for what we expected of one another. We got to know each other and each others roles in the team and form some sort of agreement for how we would work together.

The storming stage was probably the initial group task that we completed where we saw how we all worked and adjusted our own behaviours to suit the team. By this I mean recognizing who contributed where and who didn’t and what needed to be done to deal with this. Perhaps some people were a bit annoyed or confused at this stage. I personally was a bit worried about the wiki because I was trying to set it up and utilize it and other people were not using it. However, we then established that the wiki would be where we preset our final product instead of using it as a collaborative communication tool, which I was fine with. There was no major problems.

We then got more comfortable with the was our team functioned and with the modes of communication we decided to use, we were more clear on who is doing what and delegated more, without worrying that work wouldn’t get done. I think we are still at this stage. I think we are comfortable but not yet at the performing stage.