Noor rahman

In this essay I will be discussing the various stages a group of individuals may go through when becoming a team and how conflict can be evident and overcome during the process.
Teams go through stages of development. The most known structure for a team’s stages of development was developed by Bruce W. Tuckman. The four stages he described: forming, storming, norming and performing are a helpful structure for recognising a team’s behavioural patterns.
Stage 1: forming
This is the stage in which the group gets together the team will get to know its goals, directions roles etc., during this stage100 the team members are usually exited to be part of the team at the same time they could feel anxious about if they will fit into the team and where there performance can take them. Bruce W. Tuckman described this stage as; “Groups initially concern themselves with orientation accomplished primarily through testing. Such testing serves to identify the boundaries of both interpersonal and task behaviours.”
Stage 2: storming
The team will start to move towards its goals, however during this stage disagreements about goals, expectations, roles and responsibilities will be openly expressed. This could then lead to a conflict as members may express frustration about constraints that slow the teams progress, this will lead to further arguments and the team could become critical of the teams original mission or goals. During this process conflict will be evident. The team may need to develop both task related skills and group process and conflict management skills.
Stage 3: during the norming stage team members begin to resolve the differences, appreciate other team member’s strengths. The team will manage to have one goal, some members may have to give up their ideas and agree with the others to make the team function.
Stage 4: performing
During