Question

Tabby Tolman is a project coordinator at Tristar Solutions. Whenever a new project comes her way, she holds a project meeting and follows it up with repeated meetings to address any concerns the team members may have and to monitor their progress. However, with the peak of the business season arriving, she has been holding just one project initiation meeting for every project to save on time. She has become increasingly worried about the team's progress with no inputs coming from the members, and she has had no time to check with them. With two weeks left to go for a high priority project of a month's duration, she has now begun to see some work coming through and is relieved. This development reflects that the group is at the stage of:

Answer 1

Options:

A) forming

B) inertia following the first meeting

C) second phase of inertia before the group's last meeting

D) storming

E) transition following the halfway mark in the timeline

Answer:

E) transition following the halfway mark in the timeline

Explanation:

Tabby already formed the groups or teams that are going to be in charge of carrying out the organization's different projects, and they already started their work. Even though she is not part of any team, she must supervise them and is feeling really anxious because the number of new projects and she hasn't received information about existing projects.

Transition means change, and the Tabby is expecting change, since she knows that the individual projects must already be in their way or about to be finished. Apparently the business that Tabby's organization handles have a short life, since a one month long project is considered very long. She is expecting results.

Answer 2

Answer:

Performing stage

Explanation:

The team members are now competent, autonomous and able to handle the decision-making process without supervision. Dissent is expected and allowed as long as it is channeled through means acceptable to the team.

Supervisors of the team during this phase are almost always participating. The team will make most of the necessary decisions.