About Team Building

INTRODUCTION

Team building is the route toward changing a gathering of individual contributing agents into a firm group. A team is a social affair of people sifted through to collaborate reliantly and supportively to address the issues of their customers by accomplishing their inspiration and goals (Heathfield, 2019). Team Building involves 4 steps which are Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. The Forming stage involves affiliation when the team members get to know each other. Then comes the storming stage where team members have conflicts, criticism, and challenge for a bid for leadership. It is then followed by the norming stage where the team is starting to be more organized, set rules and unwritten norms and focus more on achievement collectively as a group instead of individual motives. The final stage is known as performing which involves building a synergy within the team by being flexible, open, helping each other and accepting flaws of each other and celebrating them.

TUCKMAN’S STAGES OF GROUP DEVELOPMENT

Bruce Tuckman developed a model in order to explain the team building process. It is known as Tuckman’s Stages of group development. He showed the team effectiveness in proportion with performing impact throughout the different stages of group development and shows that the curve goes down at the beginning, but then rises steadily until the stage where the team is adjourned

DYSFUNCTIONS OF TEAMS BY ROBERT LENCIONI

Robert Lencioni provides the reasons for dysfunction of teams by demonstrating a pyramid and gives the different blocks of the pyramid from bottom to the top as following:

• Inattention to results

• Avoidance of Accountability

• Lack of Commitment

• Fear of Conflict

• Absence of Trust

4 COLOR TYPOLOGY BY CARL-GUSTAV JUNG

This theory states that everyone has a color which defines their personality and analyses these 4 colors namely Blue, Green, Yellow and Red through a question-based test which decides the type of color one is. The blue and green colors are for the people who are more introverted, whereas the colors Red and Yellow represent the extroverted people. There are different things to keep in mind when dealing with the respective colors. For example- Blue people like to keep distance and maintain eye contact, so forcing ideas onto people who fall into this group is a definite no-go.

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