Applying Tuckmans model for team development

Abstract – Applying Tuckmans model development

A team can be defined as a group of people or individuals who work together to achieve a common goal. This is defined by Professor Thomson of the Kellog School of management in the book “making the team – A guide for manager” here it is stated that “"[a] team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal" https://archive.org/details/makingteamguidef0003thom

Which makes it quite different from a group, if you compare it to something more mundane. A football team is a team working together to a common goal and when a common goal has been reached everyone typically goes their separate ways. Whereas groups are individuals who are put together in different groups, and each have different goals that are the reason for their existence. https://businessjargons.com/group.html

When a team is formed it goes through a maturity stages which can be described with the Tuckmans model, also known as the “Form-Storm-Norm-Perform" (FNSP)-model which was introduced and determined in 1956 by Bennis, Shepard and Tuckman https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.findit.dtu.dk/doi/10.1177/001872675600900403 It describes the different stages that a team goes through over time, from the beginning of forming the team the thoughts and work that goes through before they can reach a high-level performance and until the end where they reach their common goal.