1.
Problem Recognition
Building a solid team is very challenging. After
passing our 5 days intensive face to face course in which we learnt about
project management and its tools, team which consist of 13 people comes from multibackgrounds
of either education or work environment must working together cooperatively and
collaboratively to ensure the quality of deliverable we have to submit on time.
What’s make it challenging? Because we have to
maintain good communication among team members that works in distance learning
method. We have to make sure that instruction of each deliverable is receipt
clearly by all team members and each member understanding his role so we can achieve team goals successfully. As
a part of team, we ought to know where we are now, in which phase we are standing
now, and what kind of leadership is perfectly match with team.
Problem definition: to investigate team development stages
2.
Development of Feasible Alternatives
There are some theories of development team or group
work dynamic. One that quite popular was published by Dr. Bruce Tuckman, a
psychology professor at Ohio State University. He divided stage process of team
development into 4 stages as Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. This theory help us to identify
the development of team and analyze its behavior so we can decided what type of
leadership is appropriate.
3.
Tuckman Assessment
To investigate what stage is My team in, I had completed the Team
Development Survey by Dr. Tuckman, then entered all the scores for each
question. Based on my assessment, I perceive my team in Norming Stage. The
survey result as shown on this table below:
|
Stage
|
Score
|
|
Forming Stage
|
22
|
|
Storming Stage
|
16
|
|
Norming
Stage
|
31
|
|
Performing Stage
|
27
|
Figure 2 : Survey Result Table
4.
Result Analysis
The highest score of my survey result was Norming
Stage, it’s indicates that team already stable, all team members are clearly
accept their roles and responsibilities, all team members feel comfort to
express their ideas and consensus of idea and decision are made by team
agreement. It’s strongly indicate that commitment was there and everybody
notice how important their contribution to the team achievement. In my opinion,
why do we have the high score in Norming
Stage are because we have same perception in goals, visions, and having excitement
felt during struggling together both to complete project plan and ensure the
quality of our deliverable on the right time.
5.
Conclusion
In the Norming Stage, Participating Leadership is the
most appropriate Leadership style to be applied. The project Manager has to facilitate
the process of making decision with low direction, listening more and give more
advise to achieve group harmony.
Curios about What Stage is Your Team in? Go follow this link http://www.cscaweb.org/EMS/sector_team/support_files/tools_for_the_team/tool_stage.pdf
References:
1. Nayab, N. (2011, May 20).
Tuckman’s Theory of Team Development for Project Teams. Retrieved from: http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/103182.aspx
2. Tuckman’s
Team Developments Stage. Retrieved from http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm
4. Survey:
What Stage is Your Team in? Retrieved from http://www.cscaweb.org/EMS/sector_team/support_files/tools_for_the_team/tool_stage.pdf
5.
Tuckman’s team-building model:
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. Retrived from http://leadership.atwork-network.com/2007/07/11/tuckmans-team-building-model-forming-storming-norming-performing/
