Adjourning

Going through the five stages of team development helps to strengthen and enrich all team members for the tough work and challenges ahead of them in order to accomplish their said goals. Forming which is the first stage is like an introduction period which introduces all the team members. The storming part is the competing part for positions and acceptance of ideas by various team members. Norming is one of the stages I like because to me it’s like a stage that introduces them to being “others “ oriented, because this part makes them understand the “all for one” whereby they  are stripped of the individual goal and are more focused on developing a way of working together for the purpose of achieving their overall goal collectively.

The fourth one which is the performing stage has an atmosphere in which there is trust and team members are working effectively as a group, and they rely on each other’s ability. The last stage which is the adjourning stage reminds me of the end of different grades as a child growing up where I have to move on to a new class, friends moving to another state and a new teacher having to come and teach in my new class.

What I have learnt in life about different groups that I have come across is that, everybody makes an impact no matter who or what the person is. It might not be a positive impact but surely every impact is a learning point in life. I might not be able to identify that immediately but eventually when I reminisce I realize the amount of impact that was made. It is always hard to say good bye irrespective of the group weather high –performing group or not.

The sort of closing rituals that I have experienced recently and I really appreciate is the one I get from my early childhood colleagues at the end of each course which comes up every eight week.  I don’t have an idea of how I will adjourn from this group because every group has its unique way. I think adjourning is an essential stage of team work because we all realize at the end that the job wouldn’t have been easy without a team work. Even though we all write our individual discussion posts and blogs, we still need our colleagues to read and make comments on what they think about our posts. That alone encourages and keeps us going and looking forward to each week. It has always been a team work from week one up to the eight week. So adjourning is an essential stage because we show appreciation, emotions through our writings and we wish each other well in our future endeavors

 

Reference:

Article: Abudi, G. (2010). The five stages of team development: A case study. Retrieved from http://wwwprojectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.html