How to guide your development team from…
…a group of strangers picked to work together into a high-performing, self-organizing team using strategies based on the Tuckman Model.
- Are your development teams struggling to reach their full potential?
- Do you find yourself navigating team-level conflicts?
- Is their performance slow, irregular and unpredictable?
Originally developed in the 1960s, the Tuckman Model provides team leaders with a simple model to understand team dynamics and development. From the initial Forming stage to the high Performing stage, the Tuckman Model describes the journey all teams take. Most importantly, this model offers ideas on how to facilitate team growth and productivity at each stage.
Download our whitepaper to learn more about team development and how to transform your development teams using the established principles contained in the Tuckman Model.
What You’ll Learn
- Forming: Learn how to create clarity and encourage initial connection as you set the stage and establish structure. Pro tip: this is the time when the team needs YOU to be their leader.
- Storming: Identify strategies for navigating differences, resolving disputes and developing a problem-solving mentality. Pro tip: this stage is where many teams crash and burn.
- Norming: Explore how to foster collaboration and achieve consensus within the team by promoting shared leadership, mutual accountability and interdependence. Pro tip: let go of the reins and let the team discover its own voice and leader(s).
- Performing: Discover how to maintain momentum as the team reaches peak performance. Pro tip: provide opportunities for growth.
- Adjourning: Learn how to manage the dissolution of the team that honors everyone’s contributions as the individuals move on to new assignments. Pro tip: everyone will experience this stage differently; be present.
This whitepaper will help you identify observable team behaviors at each stage of team development and suggest critical leadership actions needed to advance the team to their next stage of their growth.
