%% #📓 #🎥 #🟠 %% **Title:** Tuckman's Model: Fight Right! **Author:** Ed Muzio **Citation:** Muzio, E. (April 6, 2010). *Tuckman's model: Fight right!* [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNgzjYb02JM&ab_channel=EdMuzio --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary Muzio explains Tuckman's model of team dynamics and argues that the right kind of conflict can help teams make progress towards the next level. ## Author's Purpose To explain the phases of Tuckman's model of team dynamics and how to distinguish healthy and unhealthy conflict. # Notes & Important Ideas - Some conflict can be good for teams and help them get to the next level. - Understanding team dynamics can help distinguish between healthy conflict and damaging conflict. #### Tuckman's Model - Bruce Tuckman studied team dynamics in the Navy in the 1960s - Tuckman identified [[Tuckman's stages of group development|four stages of team development]] 1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing - Performance improves as you move up the model. #### How to successfully move through the phases - In Forming stage, focus on goals and come to agreement on purpose as a group. - When storming starts, conflict should be focused on roles and strategies. - Roles should refer back to the common goals. - Once conflict about roles and strategies has been resolved, you can establish norms that will take the team into the performing stage. #### Additional phase of group development model - Because teams often change membership and purpose, an additional phase has been proposed - Reforming. - Takes team back to the Forming stage # Personal Revelations --- # Other References ## Tags