Building teams during rampant change

TEAM building events typically employ diverse development paradigms. Tuckman's stages of team development propose five stages: forming, norming, storming, performing and adjourning.

The DISC model prescribes approaches to social dynamics based on personality types. Beckhard's GRPI model underlines the alignment of roles, processes and behaviors toward a company's mission or goals, while Thomas-Kilmann's conflict model explains strategies for conflict management such as competing, accommodating, compromising, avoiding and collaborating. Finally, Lencioni's five dysfunctions highlight the barriers of lack of trust, fear of conflict, absence of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results.