Tuckman's stages of group development

And we had a great time after it 'cause we had that understanding.

So what I wanna show you now is we take this horse in, and I'll show you how we go through a process which a, a psychologist called Tuckman described as forming, norming, storming, and performing.

It's how teams come together.

Okay.

They wanted repeatable formulas so they could just manufacture high performance on demand, like an assembly line for good ideas.

And to get that formula, they relied really heavily on Tuckman's stages of group development.

Oh, I've heard of this.

Yeah.

Today, we're going to talk about how to build strong relationships, how to receive and use feedback, and how to understand the culture of the team you're joining.

We'll also weave in Tuckman's stages of team development, forming, storming, norming, and performing.

Because yes, even your med-surg pod or your ED trauma bay follows these patterns.

And we'll talk about how to stay grounded, stay well, and remain human throughout all of it.

You know which physician rounds early and which one rounds sometimes before lunch.

Your confidence grows because your competence is growing.

And phase four at Tuckman, performing.

Hey, I can do this.

There is a moment of chaos and that's where disillusionment comes on.

There's a lot that happens in that moment where there's a lot of kind of what Tuckman calls the storming phase of a team as it's moving through its progression.

Where it does get quite chaotic, there's so much good that can happen in that.

There's so much knowledge there.

by the end of the class, it's one of their favorite parts.

Because of that repetition of being able to practice it over and over again, they actually have way more comfort being thrown into a bit of a chaotic ambiguous situation and knowing that they'll be able to persevere on the other end and something comes out of it and they actually grow with it.

And the other piece that I see a lot is when I meet with students after they've taken the course and I love having lunch with former students and checking in and seeing how it's going, almost all of them say that the most sticky part was that the Tuckman, the forming, norming, storming, that whole progression, that where they have the most success is in being able to be in the storming phase and recognize and say, ah, here we are, we're in the storming phase and not be intimidated by it and be actually able to harness it and guide their team, even if they're not the leader of the team, if they're a member of the team, to be able to guide from within the team through that storming phase and be super successful with it because they were able to recognize it, name it, harness it, get the information that they needed, iterate as needed, and they got themselves to the perform.

And to the point, I actually have a student who now intentionally throws his team into a bit of a storming on purpose when they start to get a little bit too calcified in their performance and things are just a little bit too comfortable.