Tuckman's Team Analysis

Tuckman maintained that these phases are necessary for a team to grow, as they face challenges, find solutions and plan work to deliver exceptional results. Tuckman’s model describes the path to high-performance through a staged development model. the stages of Tuckman’s model are:
 Forming –team members are introduced
 Storming –the team transitions from “as is” to “to be”
 Norming –the team reaches consensus on the “to be” process
 Performing –the team has settled its relationships and expectations
 Adjourning –the team shares the improved processes with others

These stages seem obvious but it is not always easy to identify in which stage a team is at any given moment. Neither is it simple to completely move from one stage to the next.