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1) Most teams go through five different stages of development. But how fast a team moves through each stage will depend on the team members, their skills, the work they are expected to do, and the type of leadership available to the team. Write a summary of the five-stage progression model. 

Every organization or company is the one big team. Team is people. Team is group of people that have same goal to achieve. Their success depends on team members’ ability to handle problems and issues, their skills, and their capacity.

In order to work together, every teams face different stages of team development. Based on the one of theories there are five stages of development including forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

Forming is the first stage that members meet each other and orient themselves trying to understand who is who, what are the responsibilities, and who is in charge. In my opinion this is the quite important stage because team members check out their expectations and try to get along with the team. In other words, this stage is not avoidable; every team - most especially a new team who has never worked together before - goes through this part of developing as a team. In this stage, the team members compete with each other for status and for acceptance of their ideas. They have different opinions on what should be done and how it should be done - which causes conflict within the team.

Storming is the second stage that members share their ideas and principles to the others. In this stage team members can know about opinions or convictions and identify the conflicts. Questions will arise about who is going to be responsible for what, what the rules are, what the reward system is, and what criteria for evaluation are. Maybe they remains with one thought that what should they do in the future and try to figure out how to act with other...