Five Group Development Stages

The five stages of group development developed by Bruce Tuckman are:

1. Forming: superficial introductions and determining boundaries of acceptable behavior.
2. Storming: the team must work through conflicts related to authority, vision and values, personality, and cultural differences.
3. Norming: greater cooperation and more cohesion as the team establish norms for assignment completion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
4. Performing: involves effective and unified team performance as the team addresses its objectives. Conflicts are mostly resolved.
5. Adjourning: this is the process of ending the group. Group members say goodbye to each other.