Personal & Team Effectiveness Individual Assessment
Introduction
Bruce W. Tuckman is an educational psychologist from Princeton University. In 1960’s, he proposed Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development. It is widely known as a basis for effective team building. It is describes four stages of useful development: forming, storming, norming and performing. In the 1970’s, Tuckman and other authors have added adjourning as the fifth stage. Tuckman's model explains that as the team's growth, ability and building the relationship. However, this is the most frequently cited if compared to the other models of group development that have been proposed. Every team has to go through these stages so that their work can do smoothly, completely and perfectly. (Alan Chapman, 2009)
Stage 1: Forming
In this first stage, the main concern is the initial formation of a group. It was occurs when the individual first meet each other. It involves individual is introduced themselves to all the team member and exchange contact number or email address. Individual try hard to be established by each other and prevent argument. They are busying with the schedule, such as the organizational structure of the team, who is responsible for what, when to meet and the location of meeting. Besides that, team member are also know well about their duty and the other team member in the assessment. On the other hand, the team leader tends to need to be directive and very clear about the team goal. Team leader is ensuring that all of the members are involved in ensure the team member’s responsibilities and duty. The forming stage is important because individuals can get to know one another, exchange some personal information, and make new friends. They are likely to be affect by the expectations and this stage is transferring individual to become a team. This is also a good opportunity to see how respond to pressure. (Laurie J. Mullins, 2010) I get stuck at this stage because mutual trust is low and I am not clear on what I supposed to do. So I have
Bruce W. Tuckman is an educational psychologist from Princeton University. In 1960’s, he proposed Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development. It is widely known as a basis for effective team building. It is describes four stages of useful development: forming, storming, norming and performing. In the 1970’s, Tuckman and other authors have added adjourning as the fifth stage. Tuckman's model explains that as the team's growth, ability and building the relationship. However, this is the most frequently cited if compared to the other models of group development that have been proposed. Every team has to go through these stages so that their work can do smoothly, completely and perfectly. (Alan Chapman, 2009)
Stage 1: Forming
In this first stage, the main concern is the initial formation of a group. It was occurs when the individual first meet each other. It involves individual is introduced themselves to all the team member and exchange contact number or email address. Individual try hard to be established by each other and prevent argument. They are busying with the schedule, such as the organizational structure of the team, who is responsible for what, when to meet and the location of meeting. Besides that, team member are also know well about their duty and the other team member in the assessment. On the other hand, the team leader tends to need to be directive and very clear about the team goal. Team leader is ensuring that all of the members are involved in ensure the team member’s responsibilities and duty. The forming stage is important because individuals can get to know one another, exchange some personal information, and make new friends. They are likely to be affect by the expectations and this stage is transferring individual to become a team. This is also a good opportunity to see how respond to pressure. (Laurie J. Mullins, 2010) I get stuck at this stage because mutual trust is low and I am not clear on what I supposed to do. So I have
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