She left you. It’s over. You can’t go back now! All you can do is learn from your mistakes.
Turnover can be rough, and it can be amicable; no matter what, no one really wants to go through it, not even the employee who’s leaving you.
According to Merriam-Webster, the word Facilitator is defined as: one that facilitates; especially : one that helps to bring about an outcome (as learning, productivity, or communication) by providing indirect or unobtrusive assistance, guidance, or supervision.
While we wholeheartedly agree with this definition, we also believe that there is so much more to a facilitator.
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Have you heard of the IRS dance video? How about the Star Trek parody?
If you haven’t, watch the clips below. They’re stirring up quite a bit of team building program controversy.
If you stop and think about it, Disney movies teach valuable lessons about the power of encouragement, teamwork, and leadership.
Many of these qualities are essential to young children, and to our backbone here at TeamBonding as well.
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In order to build a team, we must first form bonds.
Take atoms for example. An atom is the smallest building block of everything that exists today. Everything!
To become everything you see and touch, atoms must work together. They need to bond with other atoms. Atoms that don’t bond are …well… just atoms.
Each atom is special, unique and awesome, but you can’t have ice cream, puppies and all the other wonderful things in this world with one single atom.
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In the world of group development, if you’ve gotten this far, you’ve gotten the brass ring. You’ve won the game. You have boldly gone where no team has gone before.
Okay, so maybe you’re not the only team to get here, but you’re still kind of a big deal! You know what I’m talking about right? The big, hairy audacious goal – performing as a team!
The Performing stage of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development is the icing on the cake. As tough as it is for teams to get to the Norming stage, it’s even tougher for them to get to the Performing stage.
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Now Departing: “Storming”, Next Stop: “Norming”
It’s the calm after the storm. The battles have been fought, the decisions have been made, and now the dust is settling. Your team has made it to the Norming stage of Tuckman’s Model of Group Development!
Really you should be celebrating, because not all teams make it to this stage; some teams get too bogged down in ‘My Way or The Highway’ thinking, but you have learned and mastered the magic word of the Norming stage while building a team: Compromise.
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Sometimes building a team can feel like being on Survivor Island, with everyone fighting to make sure their strategy will win out in the end.
Let’s say you’re a couple of weeks into your new assignment, and your team has made it through the ‘Getting to Know You’, or Forming, phase of your group’s journey. What comes next!? Well, according to Tuckman’s Model of Group Development (and Murphy’s Law) the next phase is generally one of upheaval and conflict – (cue ominous music) ’Storming’.