Group Development Stages

The purpose of this particular activity was to allow group members who did not know each other the opportunity to work with one another to complete the task of building the tallest free-falling tower in exactly one minute or less. The reason why I believe this task was given to us was to display Tuckman's five stages of group development and to show how these stages are relevant in our lives and not another concept you learn in class that is not applicable in life. As a group, we went through all of Tuckman's stages which will be well explained in the following paragraphs. As mentioned before, nobody in the group knew each other which caused a feeling of awkwardness that soon dispelled as time gradually progressed. The feeling of awkwardness that my group shared with one another proved that we were going through the first stage of group development which is forming. In forming, group members are cautious and uncomfortable about meeting strangers (E. Minei, Group Communication, September 6, 2016). To get through this stage, my group made small talk and we discussed our majors and what school clubs we are in. After we got our instructions from our professor, we went straight to work Once my group past forming, we were officially in the storming stage in which group members become argumentative and disagree on the way to do things. Fortunately, my group …show more content…
There is power in group work and in the past I did not think this was true. In the past, I hated doing group work because my grade depended on how well my group members performed. The majority of the work was done by me and I honestly hated group work for that sole reason. I now understand what working as a team really means and teamwork has some profound outcomes if everything goes right. I now look forward to meeting my next group even though I do not know who they are as of this