Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing -- Bruce Tuckman’s model of group development is arguably the most recognized and widely used model to help teams understand their own development. We use it as the basis for helping teams accelerate their development and reach the coveted "Performing" stage -- and we use it to help teams get "unstuck" when their development has stalled.
We've seen a lot of teams in action, and we've seen it over and over again: when a team believes that its collective experience and IQ's alone will bring about effectiveness, it falters. But we know that underperformance is much less likely to come from having the "wrong" people on a team than from not investing in "growing" the team’s capabilities. A successful group has to function as a high performance team rather than a group of disparate high performance individuals.
And that's the focus of this workshop -- how to overcome this natural tendency to rely too heavily on individual contributions than on what the group can do together. In the morning, we introduce the Tuckman’s model and have the team use the model to assess their current stage of development and identify steps to move themselves forward. Frequently this process fosters productive discussions about issues that have thus far been masked, and this experience alone can help a group to move forward.
Then in the afternoon, with Tuckman's model firmly planted in everyone's minds, we take your team out on the water and present them with the opportunity to further explore their new, more nuanced understanding of team work. Sometimes just a fun sail together is enough, other times a series of sailing challenges can help the team to assess how their stage of development is affecting their teamwork.
You can expected these results from a Team Development workshop:
Faster movement to "Performing Stage"
Faster time to productivity
Ability to incorporate new team members into team faster
