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Appendix to: New Ways to Speed Up Your Team's Trust https://ameliafullpotential.blogspot.com/2019/05/new-ways-to-speed-up-your-teams-trust.html According to Bruce Tuckman, a psychologist who studied the stages of team development in 1965, there are 5 phases a highly effective team goes through. These are: 1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Adjourning Forming This is the first stage, when everyone is introduced with their role and background. People tend to be excited, as it’s a new start, and very polite, as they are just getting to know one another. At this point, the team discusses goals, timelines, ground rules, individual goals and members’ skills. Although it is not a productive stage, it is a very important one when it comes to establishing relationships between colleagues. Often, however, people tend to be overly nice when they meet and the team is only exposed to the positive attributes and strengths of members. What many don’t realise i

Teams who work together are often put together for and dismantled after a project, which means that you will be colleagues only for a short amount of time. The challenge becomes to fast-track collaboration and teamwork for maximum performance for the time of the project, until each individual goes their own way. In this series, we will discuss three tools that will help your team know what each person brings to the group, how to communicate effectively and how to avoid conflict. By recognising the value of fellow team members, collaboration and acceptance of diversity will drive optimum performance. Diversity is not only intended as cultural, ethnical, and so on, but also in terms of personality, intelligence type and motivational values. The challenges businesses face when it comes to building a solid and productive team are: overcoming a lack of trust between members, resolving conflict and tensions, keeping information from others and effective communication, engagement lev