The Four Stages Of Group Work

Group work is necessary in every work place and just in everyday life. You will have to work with people through out your adult life, and it does not always work out the way you want it to. Learning how to deal with multiple types of people and how they work with each other is a good skill to have, this will not only help you work with people but help you if you ever become a leader. With every group project comes with negatives and positives. It is what you take out the whole experience that counts.

Tuckman’s group development model for groups is in four stages, the first being forming then storming, norming and lastly is performing. Looking back at my group now we went through at least three of these stages. Forming was a fairly quick …show more content…
Sure we challenged each others ideas and voiced our opinions. There were a few things that bother me, but the main one and really the only one was Travis. He constantly talked down Katrina and I, and it drove me up the wall. I do not know why but he did not do it all the time it was only certain times when my motives, age or intelligence came into play. When we first started the project we were having our first meeting. He asked if I had been in a group project before and I said yes because I have maybe not at the collage level but a group project none the less. His replay was no one in collage they are different you know. I know that I am young but I am here to learn just like everyone else. Of course as this went on I could have told him to stop or handled it any other way then I did. I did not do anything about it. I am an avoider not even that, more of a runner. I can be in a conflict but after I leave and will not come back for a while. I guess I handled it the best way I though that I would not upset the group, because I still needed to work with him. When he talked down to me I would just explain to him what I was doing and that I knew what I was doing. I never did it in a mean way but I still stood up for myself none the …show more content…
The first and the biggest would be that no matter how old you are in any setting you are in, people are going to question you. Being able to to handle to people who have problematic personalities is a very important skill because you will run into these people during your life. They are are not going away. I have learned that if need be I can be a leader and take charge when the situation calls for it. I never thought that I would be able to lead people in any way, even know this was only a group of three, but when the situation calls for it I know I can do it. I find this really odd because I never thought as myself as a