Tuckman — TEAMING WITH IDEAS — Carlos Valdes-Dapena

The Problem With Stages Of Team Development

Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development may be useful for psychologically analyzing conflict, but not for helping a team get things done.. His stages are based on research that is no longer relevant, especially in the workplace. What’s more helpful: “What are we going to do?” or “What stage are we in?”

Team BuildingCarlos Valdes-DapenaOctober 9, 2019team development, Tuckman, lessons from mars, overcollaborationComment

3 Pitfalls of Conventional Team Building Models

In a previous episode of my podcast, Lessons from Mars, I mentioned that I became uneasy with the existing approaches to team development. I’d been working with Tuckman’s 4 Stages of Team Development - a standard in team development for decades.

Tuckman’s stages, which include Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing, offer useful insights into how groups form and mature as teams. However, as I dug deeper into the Four Stages as part of a team charged with creating a team development module for a Mars Management Development program, I found there were three key flaws with Tuckman’s model as it was applied to the corporate world.

Team LeadershipCarlos Valdes-DapenaJuly 10, 2019Team Building, Tuckman, lessons from mars, overcollaboration, Tuckman ModelComment