leadership through team developing

leadership through team developing

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Exploring Team Development Teamwork is an essential aspect of every corporation. For a team to be productive, the team members must be capable of working collaboratively to interject to the collecti... ve objectives of the team (Peralta et al. 2018). However, this collaborative effort of teamwork does not occur automatically, since the team must go through definitive phases of development as the team learns to work together. The method of learning to work collaboratively is referred to as team development (Peralta et al. 2018). In 1965 Bruce Tuckman formulated a four-stage development protocol that majority teams pursue to achieve high functioning. Tuckman later updated the stages to five in 1970. Tuckman called the stages: forming, storming, norming and adjourning each stage with its own characteristics. According to Black et al. (2019), Tuckman’s concept expounds explicates that as the team acquires ability and maturity, relationships develop, and the leader transforms his style of leadership. The leader shifts from a directing style of leadership, to coaching, participating, finishing delegating and almost unattached. At this stage, the team may come up with a new leader to take over while the previous leader can go on to form a new team. Hence, the paper discusses the stages of Tuckman’s team development and the characteristics of each stage. [Show More]