Framework

Tuckman's team development stages

The question it answers

When a new or reshuffled team keeps clashing, how can its leader tell which stage it is in and what it needs to move on to the next?

Origin
Tuckman, 1965; Tuckman and Jensen, 1977
Diagram type
Process by phase
Level of analysis
Team
Topics
Change managementStrategy & leadership
Clay steps with a looping glass arrow, icon for change management

Diagram

Tuckman's team development stages

  1. Team development stages
  2. Forming
  3. Storming
  4. Norming
  5. Performing
  6. Adjourning

Sources

References

Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.

  1. Tuckman, B.W. (1965) ‘Developmental sequence in small groups’, Psychological Bulletin, 63(6), pp. 384–399.doi:10.1037/h0022100Source page
  2. Tuckman, B.W. and Jensen, M.A.C. (1977) ‘Stages of small-group development revisited’, Group & Organization Studies, 2(4), pp. 419–427.doi:10.1177/105960117700200404Source page