LEADING TEAMS

Friendship
group

Task group

Informal
group

Forming

Defines goals

Defines developing
procedures

Storming

Conflicts
over work

Competitions
over the leader
role

Resistance and
impatience

Norming

Share
information

Accept
different
opinions

Attempt
to make
decisions

Performing

Members
have come
to trust
and accept
each other

Viewpoints
are
encouraged
and
supported

Adjourning

Termination
of task
related
behaviors

Disangagement
from
interpersonal
behavior

Functional
teams

Employees
that work
together on
a daily basis

Problem
solving
teams

Members
focus on
a specific
issue

Develop a
potential
solution

Take action
within
defined limits

Cross
functional
teams

Members
are drawn
from different
work
areas

Identify and
solve mutual
problems

Self
managed
teams

Team with
interdependent
members

Virtual
teams

Collaboration
through various
information
technologies

Global
teams

Members from
a variety of
countries

Context

External conditions within
which a team works

Leadership

Goals

Outcomes
desired for
the
team as a
whole

Team
size

The size of
a
team
can go
from 3-16
members

Member
roles

Task
oriented

Relations
oriented

Member
diversity

Norms

Cohehiveness