Stages Of Team Development

An organization works with the help of its varied resources that includes organizational resources and human resources, a company achieves its targets with the help of its team which faces varied challenges to come to a stage where the goals are achieved as a team. The steps to organization success are many; each stage comes as a challenge for the people involved in it, specific action plans needs to be taken care of when it comes to fulfilling the targets as a company or as a team. From a company’s viewpoint, team building is one very important aspect for the achievement of objectives, unless there is harmony amongst the team players there cannot be any solutions to the problems the people in organization are facing. A team mission is accomplished by working in a team, with harmony and passion to achieve the results.

Today, I am going to share with you varied aspects of a team and how it is formed and what all things needs to be taken care of as a team supporter. Organizing a work culture amongst the team is a bigger challenge today especially with professional managers playing their own role when it comes to taking decisions. As a team, the team players need to be supportive of each other and encourage others towards the steps of success ladder. The critical 5 stages of team development are:

1. The team is first formed with the people who have a common mission to accomplish, there needs to be interaction amongst them to come to the final conclusion. The people in the group work in harmony to come to a final conclusion.
2. Once the team is formed, there are going to be brain storming sessions in each team. Some players of the team may have disagreements with the other players of the team. There may be varied missions, visions and different styles of working towards a common goal. The relationships are strained but with proper management everything can be resolved.
3. The third stage is called norming, where the team players have understood that they ought to be working together and are taking over the path to success of achieving results.
4. The first 3 stages of strained behavior is natural for any team players at the start but as time passes on the team as a group starts performing, the new relationships are built keeping in mind the common goal of a team.
5. The last and the final stage is called the transformation, where the team players have understood each other well and achieving results in a right direction. They have achieved success to the highest level and feel its one of the best teams in the organization.
6. Easy transformation leads to the end of the mission or a purpose the team had been working together and other new goals and objectives are set for achieving results in an organization.

Its not necessary for organization, to follow the above stages for working, different organizations may have different ways of working through and achieving results. It largely depends on the individuals working in an organization whether they really want to work together and attain the final goals of a company.