Bruce Tuckman's Four Stages Of Working In A Team

A team is made of two or more people who have a certain goal and work together to achieve that goal, The dynamics of working in a team are extremely important in an organization. In school, in different activities, we learned the basics of working in a team. In order to work in a team to be more productive and successful, you need to be able to accept the difference between people opinions and to create a balance between ideas.

Team development stages

In order for a team to function, it goes through several stages. Bruce Tuckman has made a research about stage development of teamwork. He has identified four stages of group development.
In these stages are involved: forming stage, storming stage, norming
Other members are excited about the task they got.

2. Storming stage

The second stage of group development is storming. This is the stage that most of the teams fail.
While in the first stage members try to avoid conflicts and be more caution in this stage conflicts start happening. Members may experience stress because of the pressure of the task and also they can get distracted and for this reason, they should try to be more focused on the task to pass this stage. On this stage members of the group may have a lot of questions about authority, rules, responsibility of members and to pass this stage they need to find the answer about these questions.

3. Norming stage

The norming stage comes after storming stage. In this stage, roles and responsibility are clear and they are accepted from the members. Group can make big descion by agreement of all because they know that working together is important and also they know that if they are united they can be stronger as a team. Members have respect for each other and for the leader too also they know that it’s important to have a difference on opinions and they value
Teamworkers
Teamworkers are the kindest people in team, they try to creat good atmosphere they try to avoid personal problems.Teamworkers are known as a good listener and very diplomatic people.They avoid also confrontation in the team and in general, theyre gentle people.
When they’re under pressure they struggle to make a decision ,they also hesitate to make unpopular decisions .

Shapers
They are most competitive people in team they're highly motivated, they like to lead and challenge others , their only concern is to win.They like working under pressure , unlikely from teamworkers they aren’t afraid to make new decisions.They can handle conflict very easy. In attempt to get things done sometimes they can be aggressive and hurt others