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¶ … Forgotten Group Member
Group Development
There are four main stages of group development: forming, storming, norming and performing (MindTools, 2013). During the forming stage, members are attempting to discover their roles and logistics. Team leadership is solidified during the forming stage. The storming phase involves people clarifying roles and begin to work on the project; some group members may try to avoid tasks. The norming stage involves the establishment of a hierarchy, solidification of leadership skills, a greater commitment to the team goal, and progress towards the goal. The performing stage involves hard work leading to the attainment of the goal (MindTools, 2013).
Christine's group is in the performing stage of development. The team members are all working to the attainment of the goal. Even Mike, the team member who is failing to meet expectations has performed some work to teach the goal. However, because there are problems in the team, the team seems to be prone to relapses back to the storming phase. Mike is clearly trying to avoid tasks, and, in addition, seems to question his role in the group. It is important to recognize that the group backslides to the storming stage, since the storming stage is when groups are most vulnerable.
Part II: Problem Identification
It would be easy to label Mike as the only problem in the group since he is the lone group member who is failing to show up at meetings, is not completing his work, and is behaving in a...
However, as the group leader, Christine has to take some ownership of the situation with Mike. She has not been sufficiently assertive with him about his presence at group meetings. Moreover, it appears that Mike, like the other students, may have lunch in the school cafeteria and sometimes arrives early for classes. She could have attempted to schedule meetings during those times, to attempt to accommodate Mike's schedule. Although Mike resisted her initial effort to schedule meetings prior to class, she could have told him that he could record Happy Harry on the DVR and that he needed to get to the meetings. Most significantly, Christine needed to realize that she had no power or authority over Mike; in order to encourage him to be a productive team member; she needed to find out what motivates him and use it.
Part III: Retrospective Evaluation
From his first Happy Harry comment and unwillingness to meet before class, despite not having a real scheduling conflict, Christine should have been aware that Mike was a potential source of problems. Furthermore, as he continued to make excuses for failing to live up to group expectations, Christine permitted and enabled that behavior. What she should have done was outline her expectations to Mike, clearly, and then discuss consequences for failing to meet those expectations. Moreover, this should have been done in the initial team-meeting forming section, so that the expectations would not have been targeted…
References
Mind Tools. (2013). Forming, storming, norming, and performing: Helping new teams perform effectively, quickly. Retrieved September 19, 2013 from Mind Tools website: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_86.htm
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