Using the Group Development Model in Business Team Development
Team Development: Jacob Chan Image: 13FEB2016 pixabay.com Lately in class we have been learning about collaboration and working in groups. Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development was developed in 1965 by a researcher and education psychologist named Bruce Tuckman. These Five Stages in theory, would prove to be ideal in many social situations where the creation of teams and groups. These groups were predominantly implemented in businesses and professional fields from coast to coast with very interesting results. Since then, Tuckman’s Model has been utilized and taught at the collegiate and professional level. Judith Stein was an American historian as well as an accomplished professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In an article she wrote for MIT, she delved into the Stages of Team Development and how to implement the model in business teams. Her main focus was in differentiating a group from a functioning team . The stages are li...