Evaluating the stage of the teamwork model is essential for understanding team members attitude and behaviours; required leadership style; identifying gaps; and moving the team to the desired teamwork model.
Alternative Models
Several models exist for evaluating the operating stage of a team. These includes:
1) Tuckman forming storming norming performing model
2) Hersey & Blanchard's situational leadership model
3) Tannenbaum & Schmidt Continuum
Selected Model
For the purpose of this study, the Tuckman forming storming norming performing model will be used because it has received numerous global recognition.
Tuckman discovered that teams normally go through five stages of growth: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and finally Adjourning. Tuckman's model explains that as the team develops maturity and ability, relationships establish, the leader changes leadership style. Beginning with a directing style, moving through coaching, then participating, finishing delegating and almost detached.
Discussion of Results
Based on Tuckman forming storming norming performing model survey score of 32 for forming and 30 for storming, it can be seen that the team is transitioning from the forming stage to the storming stage. This can be substantiated by some of the team attitudes as follows:
- difficulty in identifying some of the relevant problems as there is so much going on that members get distracted.
- members seem to have their own ideas as to how the process should look and personal agendas are rampant.
- members are beginning to realise that the tasks at hand are different and more difficult than they previously imagined
- team members are just begining to understand each other.
From the foregoing, it is obvious that the team is transitioning from the forming stage to the storming stage. For this transition stage, the leadership style should also be transiting from directing to coaching style based on Tuckman model. Leader Coaches style is similar to situational leadership "selling mode" in the Hersey & Blanchard's situational leadership model.
References
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/teamsuv.html
http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm
EXCELLENT posting, Biola!! Almost exactly what I am expecting each week!!!!
ReplyDeleteFollowed the step by step model very nicely, and your provided at least three references to back up your observations and calculations.
For the future postings, be sure to include Step 7- how you are going to monitor and control the performance in the future. (At some point, you are going to have to revisit Tuckman or find another way to analyze the team's performance and relate that to the appropriate leadership style)
Keep up the good work!!!
BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta