Respond to the posts on topic: The challenges and opportunities presented during the Forming stage of Team Development.

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by Noria Rai

For every project, there will be different team members and they will be from different backgrounds and areas. Some teams will have some people from longer durations as they work on multiple projects (Greer, 2018). But when the team is forming for the first time, then the manager will have lots of challenges while selecting or choosing the team members. For any team, it all depends on what type of people are needed, as for example if we consider an IT project, definitely, it needs the team with a list of different types of people like developer, tester, Architect, End-user, etc. So the manager should have good knowledge on whom to select and what type of technical knowledge each and every person has. Once the team is formed, then the quality of work is mainly depending on team coordination.

First if we look at challenges, based on my research the major challenge is lack of coordination. And also it will be very difficult for the managers to assess the team member’s knowledge so it will take a lot of time for them to form a team. The managers will not consider what experiences the people will have and they will fail to choose the right people (Teixeira, 2009). Once the teams are formed, if the people are not sharing the information or if only a particular type of people is working together then it will impact the business. Coming to the opportunities, there will be many different opportunities where the team members can learn new things from these new projects. And also they can understand better how the applications are working, other people's strategies so that they can apply them in future projects. The forming stage is very crucial for team development where everyone should have knowledge of what is the team about and what are its goals.

                                                             References

Greer, L, et al (May 2018). Different types of challenges for a new team: A Meta-Analytic Integration. Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol 103.

Teixeira, F. (2009). Individual contributor and manager are not mutually exclusive. OSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM), Volume 20, Issue 3. Ver. I, PP 15-22