Group Communication Paper

Group Communication Paper

COM/530

2 March 2015

Tonya Boddie

MEMORANDUM

TO: Accounting Manager

FROM: Corporate Office

DATE: March 2, 2015

SUBJECT: Group formation and Communication to New Employees

CC: Learning Team members

Due to the resent administration changes we would like to address how our group formation and communication are very important to the efficiency of your new roles. There are five stages that we need to introduce to the new employees in our organization that helps with adjusting to work more productively with their teammates.

Five Stages of group development:

• Forming

• Storming

• Norming

• Preforming

• Adjourning

These stages are not designed with similar amounts of concentration or duration periods. Instead, they are intended to be guidelines to help build group development. It is very important in this new role to clearly define the goals that have been set in order for any of the stages to be productive. This role also requires you to introduce new members into the organization and the other team members. The successfulness of this task will be established once each team member opens up and connects the stages to their previous group experiences or involvement.

During the first stage, forming or ice-breaking, the team members are getting to know each other and building trust. This stage allows the team to understand the group’s goals or purposes and ask questions about the project. The team members will reveal no real truths to each other. This stage also allows the team to decide who will take over the leadership role. The leadership role could possibly be the person that the team relies on to guide them through there tasks.

Stage two and three are storming and norming. The storming stage presents how well the members will work together. This also...