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The Stages of Team Development

Whether you are creating a new team from scratch, taking over an existing team, or making additions or changes to a team, there is a natural process which will begin from the moment the team dynamics change.

This natural cycle was identified by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. Tuckman’s stages of group development describes the typical progression of teams through four stages. These are shown in the infographic below…

Infographic showing the stages of Team Development: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.

You may download this infographic as a PDF file here… Stages of Team Development Infographic.

If you’d like to find out how best to help a team through this process, quickly and efficiently, then you can find much more information in my book “Management and Leadership” on this, and many more topics.

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