Week 3: Stages of team development

Introduction

Welcome to Week 3 of the course.

In Week 2, you took some time to consider remote working, a team context that is growing in significance and brings specific challenges and opportunities. You looked in more detail at developing trust in a virtual environment and the importance of clear communication, gaining an overview of the technology available to support you. This was an important step to take early on in the course, allowing you to keep that context in mind as you work through the following weeks.

This week, you’ll move your attention to team development, investigating the different stages that a team might move through as its members get to know each other. You’ll have the opportunity to apply a well-known model to your own experience and look at different tactics for progressing from one stage to the next.

To begin Week 3 first watch the following introductory video.

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LYNNE:

This week, you’re going to be thinking about the different stages a team goes through in its development. You may be familiar with the feeling of discomfort when a new team is put together, or the difficulty you might have faced if you’ve joined a team when it's already been working together for some time. To help understand it, you’ll look at Tuckman’s stages of team development. And then consider what you can do to help a team successfully navigate each of the stages, and perform to the best of its ability.

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By the end of this week, you will be able to:

• define Tuckman’s stages of team development
• understand why it is helpful to identify the stages of team development
• apply Tuckman's model to your own experiences of teamwork
• consider what you can do to help a team successfully navigate each of the stages.