Group Phases Paper (KATHERINE BECKS)
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BETP 101 Course: Module II
The purpose of this module is to identify and understand the five stages that groups go through to be efficient and effective and fun.
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The Five Stages Are:
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
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How to Run an Awesome Group
How to Run an Awesome Group
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BETP 101 Course: Module II
The Forming Stage includes:
- Dependent personal relationships
- Group members need safe, patterned behavior
- Group members look to group leader for guidance and direction.
- Group members have a desire for acceptance by other members
- Group members identify on similarities and differences among the members
- Begin forming preferences for future subgrouping.
- Rules of behavior seem to be to keep things simple and to avoid controversy.
- Serious topics and feelings are avoided.
The Functions of the Forming Stage Include
- Orientation to task of group
- Orientation to each other
- Definition of the scope of the task
- Identification of how to approach the task
- The need for each member must relinquish the comfort of non-threatening topics and risk the possibility of conflict.
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How to Run an Awesome Group
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The storming stage involves
- Competition among members increases as they organize to address the task
- conflict in personal relations increases as the task is clarified and address
- “Fear of exposure" or "fear of failure,“ increases the need for structural clarification and commitment
- Conflicts over leadership, structure, power, and authority exist even if they do not surface.
- The discomfort produces a range of responses from domination to complete withdraw and silence
The Functions of the forming Stage
- Individuals have to bend and fit their feelings, ideas, attitudes, and beliefs to suit the group organization.
- In order to progress to the next stage, group members must move from a "testing and proving" mentality to a problem-solving mentality
- The most important trait in helping groups to move on to the next stage is the ability to listen.
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How to Run an Awesome Group
How to Run an Awesome Group
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The Norming stage involves
- Interpersonal relations are characterized by cohesion.
- Group members are engaged in active acknowledgment of all members’ contributions, and solving group issues.
- Members change their preconceived ideas/opinions on the facts presented by other members, and they ask questions of one another.
- Leadership is shared, and cliques dissolve.
- Members begin to know and identify with-one another, develop trust which leads to group cohesion.
The Functions of the Norming Stage
- The major task function of the norming stage is the flow of data between members:
- They share feelings and ideas
- Solicit and give feedback
- Explore actions related to the task.
- Creativity is high.
- Interactions are characterized by the sharing of personal and task information
- Members feel like a group
- Group feels effective
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How to Run an Awesome Group
How to Run an Awesome Group
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The Performing stage involve
- Group members exhibit true interdependence work independently, in subgroups, or as a total unit with equal facility
- Group members roles and view and need for authority dynamically adjusts to the changing needs of the group and individuals.
- Group Members work interdependently with problem solving, personal relationships and task functions
- Group members are self-assured, and the need for group approval is less
- Members are both highly task oriented and highly people oriented
- Group morale is high
N.B. The Performing stage is not reached by all groups.
The Functions of the Performing Stage
- The task function becomes genuine problem solving, leading toward optimal solutions and optimum group development.
- There is support for experimentation in solving problems and an emphasis on achievement.
- The overall goal is productivity through problem solving and work.
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The Adjourning Stage Involve
- Termination of task behaviors
- Disengagement from relationships
- Recognition for participation and achievement
- Opportunity for members to say personal goodbyes.
- Termination of the group is a regressive movement from giving up control to giving up inclusion in the group.
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- The Functions of the Adjourning Stage
- The most effective interventions in this stage are:
- those that facilitate task termination
- Those that facilitate the disengagement process
How to Run an Awesome Group
How to Run an Awesome Group
How to Run an Awesome Group
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BETP 101 Course: Module II
How to Run an Awesome Group
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References
Adapted from: Tuckman, B. (1965) Developmental Sequence in Small Groups. Psychological Bulletin, 63, 384-399. Tuckman, B. & Jensen, M. (1977) Stages of Small Group Development. Group and Organizational Studies, 2, 419-427.
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