Show notes
Learn how your team’s stage of development impacts their creative performance. We explore the five stages of group development, how creativity is impacted by each stage, and how to adjust your leadership style based on the team’s stage.
What You’ll Learn
* The five stages of team development
* How your team’s stage will impact their creative performance
* Three tips for boosting your team’s stage of development and their creative performance
* How to adjust your leadership style based on your team’s stage of development and help them achieve higher performance
Resources
* Don Clark’s Performance Juxtaposition website (author of the stages of group development assessment)
* The research study explaining the five stages of group development – Tuckman, B., & Jensen, M. A. (1977). Stages of small-group development revisited. Group & Organization Studies, 2(4), 419-427.
* North Carolina Outward Bound School
The Weekly Challenge
Your challenge for the week is have your team take the assessment survey and then discuss the results. Tell us about your team in the comments: What stage are they in? How does their stage impact their creative performance? Feel free to also use the comments section to ask Amy questions.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #009: Stages of Group Development
In today’s episode we’re going to talk about how your team stage of development impacts your team’s creative performance.
Amy Climer: Welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast episode #009. Today, we’re going to talk about the developmental stage of your team and how whichever stage they are in impacts your team’s creative performance. You might be wondering, what do you mean developmental stage, stage of development? Let’s talk about that first. As you already know, groups change over time and there’s this progression they go through. There are probably over 100 theories describing these changes and those changes are called group development – the group is developing and evolving over time.
Probably the most famous theory is one developed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965 and then he later modified it in 1977 with another researcher named Jensen. Their theory describes a sequential process that a group moves through as they grow and evolve. These five stages are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. They were quite creative in making them all rhyme which actually is probably one of the reasons why their theory is the most famous. People can remember the theory.
I’m going to describe to you each stage and what it might look like for your team if they are in that stage. I’ll talk about how the stage of the team might impact its creative performance and finally, we’ll look at how a leader can adjust their behavior based on the team’s stage of development.
Forming
Let’s start out with Forming. This is the first stage and this is when the group members are all coming together. The members are figuring out what the group is all about, trying to assess how they fit in. Sometimes they think about like the first day of a class in high school or college where everybody comes in and sits down. Maybe they don’t know each other. Maybe people aren’t talking that much.
What You’ll Learn
* The five stages of team development
* How your team’s stage will impact their creative performance
* Three tips for boosting your team’s stage of development and their creative performance
* How to adjust your leadership style based on your team’s stage of development and help them achieve higher performance
Resources
* Don Clark’s Performance Juxtaposition website (author of the stages of group development assessment)
* The research study explaining the five stages of group development – Tuckman, B., & Jensen, M. A. (1977). Stages of small-group development revisited. Group & Organization Studies, 2(4), 419-427.
* North Carolina Outward Bound School
The Weekly Challenge
Your challenge for the week is have your team take the assessment survey and then discuss the results. Tell us about your team in the comments: What stage are they in? How does their stage impact their creative performance? Feel free to also use the comments section to ask Amy questions.
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #009: Stages of Group Development
In today’s episode we’re going to talk about how your team stage of development impacts your team’s creative performance.
Amy Climer: Welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast episode #009. Today, we’re going to talk about the developmental stage of your team and how whichever stage they are in impacts your team’s creative performance. You might be wondering, what do you mean developmental stage, stage of development? Let’s talk about that first. As you already know, groups change over time and there’s this progression they go through. There are probably over 100 theories describing these changes and those changes are called group development – the group is developing and evolving over time.
Probably the most famous theory is one developed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965 and then he later modified it in 1977 with another researcher named Jensen. Their theory describes a sequential process that a group moves through as they grow and evolve. These five stages are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. They were quite creative in making them all rhyme which actually is probably one of the reasons why their theory is the most famous. People can remember the theory.
I’m going to describe to you each stage and what it might look like for your team if they are in that stage. I’ll talk about how the stage of the team might impact its creative performance and finally, we’ll look at how a leader can adjust their behavior based on the team’s stage of development.
Forming
Let’s start out with Forming. This is the first stage and this is when the group members are all coming together. The members are figuring out what the group is all about, trying to assess how they fit in. Sometimes they think about like the first day of a class in high school or college where everybody comes in and sits down. Maybe they don’t know each other. Maybe people aren’t talking that much.