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Follow up on Tuckman’s model and how it can be used to help build a team in it’s very beginning stages.

The Bruce Tuckman model, also known as Tuckman’s stages of group development, is a widely recognized framework for understanding the dynamics of group formation, performance, and dissolution. Developed by psychologist Bruce Tuckman in 1965, the model describes the five stages that groups go through as they move from initial formation to a state of high performance and eventual dissolution. These…

How I learned that just because you think people know...doesn't mean they do...

THE SET UP I took over the role of Software Engineer Manager during a team replanning initiative for a critical project. The project had the ability to net our company an estimated 10 million in sales and was a major initiative for our product suite. Being that I was a new manager, and this would be my first project in the role, I was more than a bit nervous coming in. Then within the first two…

‘Race norming’ blamed for denying payouts to ex-NFL players with dementia

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A UCSF clinical psychologist has taken aim at the National Football League (NFL) for “race norming” black players diagnosed with dementia, a practice that is depriving them of the monetary awards allocated to former footballers with neurodegenerative disorders. In her perspective that runs in JAMA Neurology on Dec. 21, 2020, Katherine Possin, Ph.D., of the UCSF Memory…

The Journey from Group to Team: Stages of Development and the Human Spectrum

William Bergquist and Agnes Mura  Although a single twig will break, a bunch of twigs is strong -Tecumseh Human beings are by nature social animals (Aronson, 2018).  Their survival when dwelling on the African savannah depended on their collaborative efforts. They were slower and weaker than most of the other animals dwelling on the savannah—but they knew how to work together in a manner that…

Love Lingers Here: Intimate Enduring Relationships X: Forming A Relationship

As we move beyond the myths of couples living happily ever after in a life of tranquility and stability to the realities of complex, changing relationships, we discover both profound and chaotic change and some patterning and continuity in the changes that do occur. In general, we find that couples move through four overall stages of development, the initial stage being defined as “forming,” and…