Reflection On Tuckman's Stages Of Group Development

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The Tuckman 's stages of group development are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results. During the forming stage, my team members are positive and polite. I was anxious, as I didn’t fully understood what work the team was supposed to do. Hope played a dominant role at this stage, because she made the team members ' roles and responsibilities very clear and she had extensive knowledge about the food pantry. Next, we moved into the storming stage that starts where there is a conflict between team members ' natural working styles. My team members began to challenge each other, and the team leader, about such things as what …show more content…
We all showed up for meetings and we did the task that were assigned. We were respectful and polite to each other and open-minded to other opinions. The norms also allowed us to perform well together with minimum conflict and maximum conflict resolution. The norms included behaviors we were expected to avoid. We were expected not to putt another group member down and being rude/ mean. Not to be on time without good explanation. Not doing your own work. Not being accepting of a member 's ideas. Also, not giving group members your full attention. Everyone was able to avoid these bad …show more content…
Hope and Markie were heavily involved, as they had the leadership role. They had he ENTJ personality. They focused on the most efficient and organized means of performing a task. Their quality, along with their goal orientation, made them effective leaders, with the ability to implement a long-term plan. They were every logical and rational. Nella personality is an ISTJ. She is a responsible organizers. She’s very neat and orderly, and tend to have a procedure for everything she does. Marisa has an ISFJ personality. She was steadfast in handling responsibilities. Torres has an ENFJ personality. He was actively sociable and enthusiastic. He was expressive, idealistic and responsible. Jacob was an ESTJ personality. He was an active organizer, logical, assertive, fact-minded, decisive, analytical, critical, and responsible. Jessica has an ISFP personality. She was caring, adaptable, compassionate, idealist and observer and very helpful and patient with detail. She was helpful with me when I couldn’t understand google docs. Kristian has an ISTP personality. She was logical and a

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