The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Tuckman's Group Development Model

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Working in team has advantages and disadvantages but I think the positive side most dominate. From my experience, I were involved in many teams during my academic study and each team has its distinct features from another. Majority of teams that I practiced are normal and have the same norms but one of them is new and unique experiment which is x-culture project team. It is a global vertical team where we developed business plan for multinational company within two month, working alongside over 3,300 students from 100 universities in over 40 countries on 6 continents. Tuckman’s group development model has five stages that we go through it. First stage of group development is forming where the project coordinator sends email of my group member and within a week we should identify the communication channel where we used email to decide using whatsapp. By email and then whatsapp we introduce ourselves and build social interaction. After that we should determine the company for our project. In this stage some kind of disagreement arise in which each one choose different and some do not matter what will be select, so we decide that each person should select one company and provide us reasons of chosen company to convince others. Then we select the most frequent company sense they have proper reasons with consensus agreement. Besides, in storming stage …show more content…

The leader take an essential role to solve the conflict within short time so the task will be completed with given deadline. I learned that if there are not partial deadline, I have to put that deadlines and follow up with rest of the team to not accumulate the task until few days of deadline of submission. Also, the rules and regulations should be defined from the beginning and all members participate on setting. As a leader I can lay the foundation for a cohesive team by stimulate meaningful communication(Breitenöder, A. F.

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