Team Dynamics and Conflict Management

• Team: a group of people organized to work together
• Teamwork: the joint action by a group in which each person strives to work towards a common goal
• Team dynamics: forces that influence how a team behaves, performs, or responds
• Forming stage: the first stage of team development. It begins when the team first meets each other
• Norming stage: the third stage of team development. A team will move into the norming stage when they begin to work more effectively together as a team
• Performing stage: the fourth stage of team development. The team is functioning at a high level in terms of performance and growth
• Mourning or adjourning stage: the fifth stage of team development. This adjourning stage occurs at the end of the project when the team is moving on in different directions
• Conflict: The difference or disagreement or disharmony or clash between persons
• Conflict management: the plans we make to prevent or resolve conflict
• Consensus: process used by a group to agree by discussing the facts and making the decision for the group
• Grievance: a concern or a complain at work
• Contemporary theory: conflict in unavoidable and a natural result of the change. It can be beneficial to a business if managed correctly.