Stage 1 is about forming and occurs when a group comes together for the first time. Perhaps this is with an existing team or a new team at the start of a new project. If there is insufficient investment in supporting the team to evolve in a structured fashion, they will fail to develop the norms for working effectively together. It is at this stage where the team manager has control but also has to be flexible enough to accommodate different working styles, combine the experience of the team or group members and assess how best to position them to deal with the difficulty of the task they have to perform.
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