Please expound on the Tuckman cycle when you can. Tia.
ETA: I had some time so I looked it up. Very interesting. Glad you shared.
do you have any personal experience with Tuckman's theory?
I dont remember studying it formally way back in bschool but I would think it fairly well known model for those looking to become better leaders. It is a useful framework in many types of team building. Startups, political campaigns, working with clients, leading a project, even volunteering at church or getting the family on something. At each stage, you want to focus on different things to maximize success and jumping from the chaos of formation to expectations of high performance is a recipe for failure.
First their must be interpersonal bonds built, then a normative model of behavior is introduced (what we all expect), if the group ties are sufficient, the model will be peer enforced instead of top down. Once this level is achieved it helps to introduce a common enemy or group challenge to complete the us vs them mechanic and drive motivation. Finally with cohesion, self enforcement and motive, the group can focus on performance and this usually is managed by working on streamlining processes to improve efficiency and culminates in either project completion or for operations, continuous improvement.
Many want to jump to streamlining processes first but without getting to that stage, it is more important to lay the rest of the foundation to improve teamwork.
Edit- I forgot to add, I have pretty much used this framework personally in managing teams across a multiplicity of endeavors - 2 startups, consulting with fortune 500, political gigs, etc. It makes me wonder, back 30+ years ago when I wasnt really aware of the dynamic but was still managing some things, what was I even doing?
