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TEAM DEVELOPMENT

&
GROUP COHESIVENESS
prepped by ARIKAPUDI
SAIMANIKANTA
What is Team Development?
• A team is a group of individuals who work together toward a common
goal. Each member of a team is valuable to the common goal in their
own way, using a unique set of skills to fulfill a team role. And yet,
everyone on the team shares the same orientation and attitude.

• Though this may sound easy on paper, balancing individual and


common goals within a team is quite difficult, especially during
periods of stress, failure, or discord.
Characteristics of a successful team include:
• Mission: Everyone on the team has a clear understanding of what the
collective goal is.
• Commitment: Everyone invests their time, energy, and attention into the
collective goal.
• The 3 R’s: Everyone understands the RULES, ROLES, and
RESPONSIBILITIES of the team dynamic.
• Process: The mechanics of intergroup communication, decision-making, and
accountability are agreed upon and managed effectively.

Why is Team Development Important?


• Engaging team development benefits the team in a number of ways.
Individual members of a team learn more about their personal potential,
duties, and work dynamically within the team.
The Five Stages of Team Development were developed by psychologist
Bruce Tuckman in 1965. These five stages advance as a team works
together, but especially when a team brings awareness to their dynamic.

1. Forming
During the “forming” stage of team development, the team members
acquaint themselves with the basic aspects of their task. Forming stage
discussion topics often include the project goal, team member roles, basic
ground rules, and designation of authority. The forming stage is truly a
honeymoon phase in teamwork—productivity is low, but the team
members are too newly acquainted to encounter conflict.
2. Storming
As the real work kicks in, the project may present both technical and
interpersonal challenges. Individual work habits, leadership decisions,
or lapses in communication can cause tension within a team. Storming is
the most difficult and unproductive of the five stages of development,
but it is nevertheless vital to the team development process.
3. Norming
In this stage of team development, team members fall into a rhythm as a
cohesive taskforce. The skills of each member are validated and utilized
to execute the necessary tasks. While conflict may still arise in this
stage, it no longer spirals into dysfunction.
4. Performing
Some teams reach a stage of development in which they thrive at their
individual and collective tasks. The skills of each member are fully
optimized, supervision is almost never needed, and members feel a
strong sense of trust in one another. 
5. Adjourning
Adjourning varies broadly from team to team. Some teams adjourn with
silence, some with celebration, and others with sadness. The adjourning
phase is a fantastic opportunity for leaders to encourage long-term
connections, reflect on the growth of the team, and celebrate the project
closing.
Team cohesiveness is a degree to which group members are attracted
or motivated by each other. Basically, group cohesiveness is the
closeness amongst the group members.
It is seen that members of a highly cohesive group develop some
common characteristics
Everyone respects each other.
They are fully committed to the decision made by the group.
There is good accountability amongst members.
Factors Affecting Group Cohesiveness
• Similarities of Attitudes and Values:people enjoy and get attached to
the people who have similar opinions, morals, beliefs, and code of
conduct as people with the same opinions provide the same kind of
social validation.

• Size of the Group:When the size of the group increases the interaction
with the members becomes more difficult and hence the goal is
hampered.

• Time:When people spend time with each other the more they will get
close and hence it strengthens the degree of cohesiveness
• Inter Dependency:When each member has autonomous action, the
cohesiveness between the members of such a group would be less as
opposed to the group whose members are doing the procedure and
are relying upon each other.

• Management Behaviour:If we talk about factors affecting group


cohesiveness then management behavior plays a major role in it.
When a manager makes a close relationship with a few in groups that
may cause unhealthy competition amongst members of the group. It
is important that managers reward cooperative behavior so that the
bond grows amongst the groups.
Importance of Group Cohesiveness
Performance: If management wants good performance it should
encourage its employees towards group cohesion.
Satisfaction: When there is group cohesion the performance will
increase and hence it will bring satisfaction to the employees and they
will work harder to achieve the goal.
Assurance Pressure: When we talk about group cohesiveness
characters and the behavior is the most important factor. When there is
a great bonding between the group then it is assured that surely the task
will be completed.
Emotional Factors: When people work together and have strong
bonding people feel emotionally attached and hence people will work
with each other in harmony and achieve the goal together.

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