Question

1. Describe the four stages of development of ongoing teams. Do teams always develop as neatly as suggested by the four stages? Give an example of when they do not.

2. You have been appointed the director of a local health and human services department, which has been recently formed by the merger of an independent department of health and department of human services. You find that the different units in the department operate with very little communication and there is significant intergroup conflict across teams and departments within the organization. As a leader, how can you reduce this “silo mentality” and improve collaboration across teams?

Answer 1

1.There are actually 5 stages of team development. They are:

1. Forming: Team members are introduced to each other. Leader should guide the team members. Team members are unclear about their role and responsibilities.
2. Storming: team members have disagreements and different opinions. And even leadership fades in the way.
3. Norming: understands clearly the task, role and responsibilities and work as a unit.
4. Performing : high task-oriented and works for gial achievements and production increases.
5. Adjourning. Termination of task and goal achieved.

The team wont be neatly developed from the initial step. First in forming team starts with trying to understand their roles and task later in the second step they have unclear ideas and try to have different opinions with less support and understanding but when it comes to norming they work together and unitely try to finish the task once tgey are fully aware of task. In performing they give all tge peoductivity to achieve the task. And finally in Adjourning they terminate tgeir task. So development of team is not a sudden and immediate step it takes svereal steps with falls and ups which strengthen the team.

2) its common to have conflicts across the team or in a department within the organization. There are few steps to reduce the sili mentality and improve collaboration. They are%

1. Should have same vision. Ie, organization should have unified vision.
2. Common goal, the goal of the team should be same. They should work to achieve same goal. So there wont be differences in the goal of each person.
3. Motivation : The manager can give motivation through recognition or through common incentive so they work hard for achieving goal. So for that they work as a team to get tge task completed.
4. Interpersonal relationship :leader should build good rapport between the employees. And should understand them individually. So its through communication, should reduce the communication barrier and should listen what each employee has to say.
5. Fix time limit:if the task completion has a fixed time. Then people will work together to achieve it.