STAGES OF TEAM GROWTH
These are the four stages of team growth.
What are Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing?
The foundation of every healthy, high-performing team.
What is Trust?
This follower behavior contributes most to healthy team development.
What is active participation?
Healthy teams are built on trust, communication, and this third characteristic.
What is Cooperation?
A newly formed project team spends its first meeting introducing members and discussing responsibilities.
Which stage is this?
What is Forming?
During this stage, team members are learning roles, goals, and expectations.
What is Forming?
During the Forming stage, leaders should primarily do this.
What is establish expectations, roles, and goals?
Followers strengthen trust by consistently demonstrating this.
What are reliability and accountability?
Among trust, communication, and cooperation, this is considered the core of healthy teams.
What is Trust?
Two experienced NCOs strongly disagree about how to accomplish a task. The flight commander encourages discussion before selecting the best approach.
Which stage is the team experiencing?
What is Storming?
Conflict over roles, responsibilities, and priorities is most common during this stage.
What is Storming?
During Storming, an effective leader should respond by doing this.
What is manage conflict and encourage communication?
Followers contribute to healthy teams by openly doing this.
What is communicating ideas and concerns respectfully?
Dynamic teams are characterized by this constant condition.
What is continuous change, activity, and progress?
A team has developed clear procedures, members trust each other, and disagreements are resolved professionally.
Which stage is this?
What is Norming?
Shared trust, cooperation, and established standards characterize this stage.
What is Norming?
True or False:
Leaders should eliminate all disagreement during Storming.
What is False?
An effective follower willingly accepts this while remaining engaged.
What is constructive feedback?
A healthy team spirit most directly influences this.
What is mission accomplishment?
A deployed maintenance team consistently exceeds expectations, quickly adapts to challenges, and requires very little supervision.
Which stage has the team reached?
What is Performing?
This stage represents the highest level of team effectiveness where members require minimal supervision.
What is Performing?
A new team constantly disagrees about responsibilities. Productivity has decreased, and frustration is increasing.
What leadership action is most appropriate?
Clarify roles, encourage communication, and guide the team through Storming rather than avoiding conflict.
During a planning meeting, a junior Airman notices a major flaw but remains silent because senior personnel are present.
Which follower behavior was missing?
What is active participation and constructive communication?
A team communicates well but members refuse to help one another when workloads become uneven.
Which essential characteristic of healthy teams is weakest?
What is Cooperation?
A high-performing squadron receives several new Airmen. Productivity temporarily declines while members learn new responsibilities.
Must the team begin the entire development process again?
Not necessarily, but the team may temporarily return to earlier stages such as Forming or Storming before progressing again.