Five Stages of Team Development and Our Team Presentation

Five Stages of Team Development and Our Team Presentation

Gene L.

The piranhas were out to get us. That is how our team felt after our presentation. However, we felt that we learned a valuable lesson. In real life, if we were to deliver bad news and our audience reacted the same way our class did to our presentation, we would be prepared in the future. The preparation process for this presentation was long and tedious but was well worth it. Our team did go through Boston University School of Management’s five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

Stage 1: Forming

The first step that we did was to develop a team charter. We had a conference call on September 28th to get to know each other better and discuss our strengths and weaknesses. We then proceeded to discuss and develop the team contact. We discussed our mission, goals, expectations, policies, procedures, and roles. Our goals were to deliver our message effectively, to learn about each other, work together, and to have fun in the process. We expected everyone to actively participate and follow our policies and procedures. Using our DiSC profiles, we assigned roles to each other. Finally, we developed a project plan.

Stage 2: Storming

Roles were determined by our DiSC profiles. Jee, who is D/C, was the leader and his house served as the meeting point for two of our meetings. He also made sure that all bases were covered. Shyla, who is I/D, was motivating us, kept us in check, and made sure that we weren’t going off on a tangent too often. Tom, who is S/C, set up the meeting places, sent reminder memos, and encouraged everyone to share their ideas. Saw and I, who are both I’s, motivated and got everyone to agree to our plans. Our roles pretty much stayed the same throughout the preparation process. We were meeting at least twice weekly, so we were not under a lot of time constraints. Because of adequate preparation, we...