Adjourning Stage

   The final stage “adjourning”-means the project is coming to an end and the team members are starting to go their separate ways. They celebrate the teams efforts and learn from what they have accomplished (Abudi, 2010). The adjourning stage is a difficult, but important stage in the team process because it is the stage when everyone says their good-byes and move onto other projects. I have mixed feelings on this stage because it is quite a relief to accomplish what a group sets out to do and a relief when it is over. The group can go over things they have learned and what things they might do differently the next time. This is the celebrating stage. This is also the time when all involved will go their separate ways.

   In the past I have not had many opportunities to be part of a team that would demonstrate changes; the teams I have been a part of would be for arranging events, party’s’.  Nonetheless, we did go through the fives stages of team development, but I was not aware of the stages before this course.

1. The “forming” stage-this is when a team first meets each other and introductions are made. The members of the team share information about themselves and they are finding out information about others and how they feel they will work together (Abudi, 2010).
2. A the team works together they get into the “storming” stage-in this stage the team members compete for status and acceptance(Abudi, 2010). The team leader must guide the team so that conflict is solved together and introduce the win/win approach and try to change the conflict from adversarial attack and defense, to co-operation (www.crnhq.org).
3. In the third stage “norming”-the team begins to work together more efficiently as a team. They are focusing on goals together, not individual goals. This is where the trust takes place of the progress begins.
4. The “performing” stage-this is where the team focuses on the goal. The team knows each other, trusts each other, and they rely on each other. At this point the team works with no guidance, and the team works together as a group.
5. The final stage “adjourning”-means the project is coming to an end and the team members are starting to go their separate ways. They celebrate the teams efforts and learn from what they have accomplished (Abudi, 2010).

   When this course is over everyone will be missed. The bright sides of things are that we always run into familiar people in the next course and the course after that. When we are totally finished with the program, we will be so elated we are finished; this emotion will take over any other emotions.

  

References

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