Introduction
The process of development the group was analyzed based on the example of the group formed to prepare the final presentation. The group has faced each of the Tuckman’s Group Development Model stages such as: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Moreover, the leadership and conflict management styles were identified and described using the situations the group faced during the process of preparing the presentation.
Forming
During the forming stage of Tuckman’s Group Development Model, the people are usually cautious and carefully explore other members and the common group goal (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). The forming stage started on the first group meeting, when the professor posted the group member’s names and announced the list of the topics available for the presentation.
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The substantive conflict, which is part of secondary tension, aroused when Lynda disagreed with Danilo’s ideas and decisions (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). At the storming stage the hidden agendas may also emerge and our group was not the exception (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). Lynda wanted to incorporate her ideas so much that she forgot about the time limit of up to 25 minutes for the presentation. She had creative personal goal, but the group realized that it will take more time and the presentation will look like theatric performance.
Our group had an emergent leader, Danilo, who interacted with the group members and contributed to the achievement of the group goal (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). On the first group meeting he was very active and took care of creating the group norms, promoted brainstorming among other group members and assigned tasks for each of the members. Danilo was very democratic leader and before making the final decision, he made sure that all of the members agreed and did not have any
The process of development the group was analyzed based on the example of the group formed to prepare the final presentation. The group has faced each of the Tuckman’s Group Development Model stages such as: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Moreover, the leadership and conflict management styles were identified and described using the situations the group faced during the process of preparing the presentation.
Forming
During the forming stage of Tuckman’s Group Development Model, the people are usually cautious and carefully explore other members and the common group goal (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). The forming stage started on the first group meeting, when the professor posted the group member’s names and announced the list of the topics available for the presentation.
Furthermore, the group …show more content…
The substantive conflict, which is part of secondary tension, aroused when Lynda disagreed with Danilo’s ideas and decisions (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). At the storming stage the hidden agendas may also emerge and our group was not the exception (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). Lynda wanted to incorporate her ideas so much that she forgot about the time limit of up to 25 minutes for the presentation. She had creative personal goal, but the group realized that it will take more time and the presentation will look like theatric performance.
Our group had an emergent leader, Danilo, who interacted with the group members and contributed to the achievement of the group goal (Engleberg& Wynn, 2012). On the first group meeting he was very active and took care of creating the group norms, promoted brainstorming among other group members and assigned tasks for each of the members. Danilo was very democratic leader and before making the final decision, he made sure that all of the members agreed and did not have any