Suppose You Were the Leader of a Tem That Has Been Created to Develop a New Registration Process for Costaatt. How Can You Use an Understanding of the Stages of Team Development to Improve Your Team’s Effectiveness?

Essay: Suppose you were the leader of a tem that has been created to develop a new registration process for COSTAATT. How can you use an understanding of the stages of team development to improve your team’s effectiveness?

Effective teamwork is essential in today's world, but Teams do not become effective overnight.  Team formation takes time, and usually follows some easily recognizable stages, as the team journeys from being a group of strangers to becoming a united team with a common goal.  If, I as a leader try to skip over important development stages, which are the forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning, I risk not forming the solid foundation needed when trouble or setbacks occur.

Whether my team is a temporary working group or a newly-formed, permanent team, by understanding these stages I will be able to help it quickly become an effective team.

The fist step in becoming an effective team in developing a new registration process for COSTAATT is the “forming” stage. This takes place when each member of the team first meets each other. As the leader, in the first meeting, I will allow the team members to introduce themselves to each other. Here they will share information about their backgrounds, interests and experience and form first impressions of each other. They will learn about the project they will be working on, discuss the project’s objectives/goals and start to think about what role they will be able to play on the project team. They will not yet be working on the project. They are, effectively, “feeling each other out” and finding their way around as to how they might work together, which can be frustrating for some members who simply want to get on with the team’s task.

Soon, reality sets in and the team will move into the storming stage, as the team begins to work together. This stage is not avoidable; every team most especially a new team as mine who has never worked together before will have to go through this part of...