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Accel Team is pleased to announce a partnership with the Open University.

The PDF version of Employee Motivation, the Organisational Environment and Productivity is now a specified student resource for Open University course K315 Critical Social Work Practice. Some 3600 licenses have been purchased to be given to students over the next 8 years. commencing 2008.

Team Building

Team Development Stages

Team building stages of development

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Overview of stages in team building process

Before exhibiting the signs of effective teamwork which were listed in 'What is Effective Teamwork?' your team will probably need to pass through several stages of development, during which other signs or characteristics will be exhibited.

We us a simple model based on four essential stages of development. It has been found to be very useful in helping teams and team leaders to understand team development. This model will help you and your team members not only to understand, but to then agree where they are in the development process. We have a really useful diagnostic instrument to enable your team members diagnose and agree where they are in the team development stage matrix.

No team ever exhibits solely the characteristics of one particular stage; rather it is a question of which characteristics are the most prominent. A grouping, even though crude does help your team to understand something of where it is in the development process and of where it wants to be; undoubtedly you will find our simple four-stage model useful.