Tuckman's Model: Team Development Stages for PMP and ACP

Using the same leadership approach from kickoff to closeout can fail, because the right style at the wrong stage backfires. Directive leadership suffocates a performing team, while a hands-off style leaves a forming team without direction. This course uses Bruce Tuckman's model of team development to diagnose where your team is and to adapt your leadership to match.

Who this course is for

• Project managers and team leads building or inheriting a team
• Leaders dealing with conflict, pushback, or subgroups on their team
• Managers whose teams change membership or face scope changes and external pressure

What you'll be able to do

• Recognize the Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing stages and diagnose which one your team is in
• Adapt your style from directive to facilitative to participative to delegative as the team develops
• Channel Storming conflict instead of suppressing it, and spot its common triggers
• Handle regression by returning to a documented Norming playbook and onboarding new members with explicit norms
• Close a team well in the Adjourning stage by celebrating, capturing lessons, and acknowledging people

Complete the video and knowledge check to earn up to 2.0 PDUs, credited from your recorded learning time.