Mgt 311 Week 4 Team Reflection

We discussed the five basic stages of group development which are forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Forming is the stage where the group's purpose, structure and leadership is contemplated and determined. The storming stage is characterized by intragroup conflict over leadership and individuality. At the conclusion of this stage all conflict is resolved.

The norming stage develops relationships and demonstrates cohesiveness. In the performing stage the group accepts the structure and focuses its energy on completed the given task. The adjourning stage only applies to temporary groups. In this stage the group wraps up all uncompleted task in preparation for disbandment. We discussed the different techniques to minimize groupthink....