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I recently went through a Boy Scouts Adult Training called Wood Badge.

The most important thing I learned there was a Team Dynamics study, reportedly used by the DoD, which was distilled into four words: Forming Storming Norming Performing

What blew me away was that I could literally see this happening right in front of my eyes with a small team of kids who I was coaching for an FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics competition.

I finally understood the team dynamics and realized that I am not the only one experiencing it and it was not an anomaly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_de...

http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/pubscats/pm/articles03/pat-ma03....




Forming Storming Norming Performing

Oh boy, that's a huge piece of teambuilding training throughout the military. It's a good description of how new teams form. Unfortunately most teams don't get past the storming phase.


That'd be because getting past Storming and through Norming actually requires leadership.

The other two are good with hands-off approaches. Heck, Performing can even take a certain amount of ineptness in leadership without falling apart.




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