Leading Groups and Teams

2.2 The Stages of Team Development

Getting Started

As previously mentioned, self-awareness, for an individual or a team, is important. It is hard to know how to get to where you want to go if you don’t know where you are. In this discussion, you will assess a team that you are on and have the opportunity to suggest a positive way forward for that team. This will also serve as an opportunity for you to test out some ideas with your classmates and instructor before writing the paper for this week.

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

· Identify positive and negative ways in which teams develop and recommend solutions.

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

2. Review the Getting Started and Background Information sections.

3. Read Discovering Leadership (Middlebrooks et al., 2020) Chapter 12, especially pages 312 and 313.  

4. Read  Using the Stages of Team Development(new tab)  by Judith Stein.

5. Read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. 

6. Initial Post of 300-400 words responding to the question prompts due by the fourth day of the workshop. Two additional 100-to-200-word responses to other students' posts are due by the end of the workshop. Any questions posed by the instructor to the student must also be answered.

7. Discussion Prompts:

a. Remind the class where you work and your role. Briefly describe the team you will reference in this discussion.

b. Utilizing insights from Discovering Leadership Ch. 12 and Stein article, identify where your team is on the team development cycle.

c. Reflecting on the Lencioni book, identify which of the five dysfunctions your team is struggling with the most.

d. What is one thing you could recommend to help your team either eliminate the dysfunctional behavior or move to the next stage of the team development process?