What's performing stage in team development?

Performing: The Fourth Stage of Group Development

Many groups never reach the performing stage. At this point, the group is asking "How can we do our best?" and is filled with enthusiasm and focused on creative problem solving. Characteristics include harmony, productivity, effective problem-solving and full development of the potential of the group and the individuals in the group.

Leadership is shared and participative and the leader's role is delegation. This is the stage where customer service will be excellent. While customer service is important in all stages, the productivity and harmony of this stage creates impressive examples.

Characteristics of the Performing Stage

• You have to go through the other stages to get here
• Harmony
• Productivity
• Problem-solving
• Shared and participative leadership
• Full development of potential

Performing is the 4th stage in team development.

This stage is when team members are trained, competent, as well as able to do their own problem-solving. At this time, ways need to be looked at in order to challenge them as well as develop them. The team is mature now. The members understand their roles and responsibilities. They would require more input in processes. The members would be self-motivated as well as self-trained. Thus, their efforts need to be recognised. Growth has to be encouraged. This is done by giving new challenges to the team.

Thus, teams at the stage of performing are self-controlling, practical, loyal as well as productive. Focus is there on both performance as well as production.

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The five stages:

• Stage1: Forming
• Stage2: Storming
• Stage3: Norming
• Stage4: Performing
• Stage5: Adjourning

The "forming" stage takes place when the team first meets each other. In this first meeting, team members are introduced to each.

As the team begins to work together, they move into the "storming" stage. This stage is not avoidable; every team - most especially a new team who has never worked together before - goes through this part of developing as a team. 

When the team moves into the "norming" stage, they are beginning to work more effectively as a team. They are no longer focused on their individual goals, but rather are focused on developing a way of working together (processes and procedures). They respect each other's opinions and value their differences.

In the "performing" stage, teams are functioning at a very high level. The focus is on reaching the goal as a group. The team members have gotten to know each other, trust each other and rely on each other.

In the "adjourning" stage the project is coming to an end and the team members are moving off into different directions. This stage looks at the team from the perspective of the well-being of the team rather than from the perspective of managing a team through the original four stages of team growth.

Characteristics of the Performing Stage

• You have to go through the other stages to get here
• Harmony
• Productivity
• Problem-solving
• Shared and participative leadership
• Full development of potential

 

 Performing - In which ,Team experience success and improve towards higher levels of performance

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In1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman proposed his original model of group development. This model suggests that groups and teams move through a series of stages in order to achieve their peak level of performance. The first four stages of the model are: Forming (orientation and ice-breaking) Storming (addressing conflicts and disagreements) Norming (conflict resolution and consensus on how the group will function) Performing (high level of cohesion and performance) Tuckman, along with his colleague Mary Ann Jensen, proposed a fifth stage of group development in1977: adjourning. A group that wraps up its work and then dissolves is in the adjourning stage of group development. Be sure to read about the first four stages in Tuckman's model before reading about this final stage. The Adjourning Stage of Group Development If a group has fulfilled its goals and objectives, it will move into the adjourning stage. This may happen rather quickly for a project-specific team. On the other hand, permanent groups can function for a long time without moving into the adjourning stage. Organizational developments such as a restructuring can also trigger movement into the adjourning stage. At this stage it is important to achieve closure for the group on a positive note. Group members may feel a sense of loss and their motivation may decline when the group's work comes to an end. Some observers have even called this the mourning stage of group development.