FINAL DESIGN 4: Bruce Tuckman

To clearly explain the general flow of the team, it’s good to bring back Bruce Tuckman's 1965 Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model (Alan Chapman, 2009).from previous year’s assignments. Tuckman's model explains that as the team develops maturity and ability, relationships establish, and the leader changes leadership style. Beginning with a directing style, moving through coaching, then participating, finishing delegating and almost detached. At this point the team may produce a successor leader and the previous leader can move on to develop a new team. This leadership style was definitely how Lisa worked. She was the ‘monkey’ in later stages, simply helping us all complete little tasks to move us along and it was her that directed such things as the ‘hands on’ day and the model making (although Steve orchestrated the actual model building, having printed off a ‘Elote Construction Manual’ of all measurements and materials from his Solidworks model).