Traditionally, every team goes through five stages of development. Every stage development is helpful towards cultivating a team spirit and a coherent force that fosters productivity. The stages development of the team comprises of forming, storming, performing and transforming. Our team’s developmental stage is in the storming stage. At this stage, the group has divergent views on the mission, the approaches, and the mechanism that we can use to create a formidable working unit. The most probable explanation that we can use to explain this disorder is because the group is relatively new and most of the members are just getting to know each other.
In order for our team to work efficiently and to develop competency, we sought the advice Dyer (2010). According to the two, for a team to be successful, it must do the following:
1. The team must articulate the goals and the methods of achieving the goals.
2. Ensuring that each individual in the team understands their assignment and knows how their work contributes to the team
3. Every member makes effective decisions
4. That there is effective communication that includes receiving and getting feedback
5. Disputes are resolved peacefully
High performing teams have not developed by accident. Instead, they have developed by the ability to change by having stable and consistent team building processes that assist in evaluating the team context, team composition, and team competencies. We aspire to create high performance by following the above-mentioned guidelines.
Our team understands that staffing plays an instrumental role in binding a team. In order for staffing to be effective, there will be need to have staff members that have the required requisite for tasks that they perform. There will also a great deal of flexibility that creates room for staff members to help one another when there is need. This means that the team must be diverse to cover for all aspects such as gender, race, body shape and experience in different fields.
References
Dyer, W., & Dyer, J. (2010). Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
