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ADJOURNING STAGE
• In the adjourning stage, most of the team’s goals have been accomplished. • The emphasis is on wrapping up final tasks and documenting the effort and results. As the workload is diminished, individual members may be reassigned to other teams, and the team disbands. • There may be regret as the team ends, so a ceremonial acknowledgement of the work and success of the team can be helpful. • If the team is a standing committee with ongoing responsibility, members may be replaced by new people and the team can go back to a forming or storming stage and repeat the development process.
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• Teams usually develop norms that guide the activities of team members. • All the team members implicitly understand them. • Norms result from the interaction of team members during the development process. • Performance norms are very important because they define the level of work effort and standards that determine the success of the team. • Leaders play an important part in establishing productive norms by acting as role models and by rewarding desired behaviors. • Norms are only effective in controlling behaviors when they are accepted by team members.
TEAM NORMS
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