Group Development-Norming Notes

RfD/Notes06May05 Attendees:Mike, Liz, James, Guled, Yixin Group Development-Norming stage Forming--&gt;Storming--&gt; (Norming)--&gt;Performing Recall at the forming stage: get different ideas among the group  vote what's possible discussion process of elimination "survivor" look for commonality or similarity experience as guide  The goal of forming stage is not only to solve the singe issue, it is to get the group along, to build the team.  Share why preserve the good</li> assumptions (find the assumption under)</li> check the mandate/purpose/agenda to see if the idea fit in</li> </ul> Norming stage is about negotiating relationship So how to make norming stage going more smoothly  social time</li> doing actual work</li> dictating norms</li> check-ins, etc.</li> "create context" sharing</li> </ul> Case study: to form a group and discuss how to reduce the impact of shortage of leadership persons The forming stage of this discussion would be: observation:shortage of leadership persons question:how to reduce the impact of shortage of leadership persons Stroming: Why the shortage:  retention</li> recruitment</li> right people</li> motivation</li> social trends</li> insufficient training</li> too demanding</li> <li>not challeging enough</li> <li>not asking the right people to be leaders</li> <li>leaders are too important to functioning of PERC, so shortage of leader would be such big impact</li> </ul> Norming: look for the similarity and agreen on some important factors that cause the shortage. August 12, 2005 Norming(continued) Attendees: Mike, Jo, Liz, James, Guled and Yixin Norming: to find a way to eliminate, combine and rank items we get from storming stage. After discussions, we agree on: <ul> <li>Eliminate "retention", "socail trends", and "leaders too important for PERC"</li> <li>Combine "recruitment" and "right people" to " recruitment of the right people(with leadership potential)"</li> <li>Combine "motivation", "too demanding", "not challenging enough", and "not asking the right people" to "Right roles for leaders"</li> <li>Add "support" to make "sufficient training/support"</li> </ul> So for "reduce the impact of leadership shortage", we get to three important items: <ul> <li>Recruitement of right people</li> <li>training + support</li> <li>right roles for leaders</li> </ul> Another agenda at RfD of August 12:Expectation for RfD and LST <ul> <li>database of what PERC has</li> <li>intercommittee communication</li> <li>more people for LST</li> <li>challege</li> <li>develop training programs</li> <li>one on one</li> <li>coaching</li> </ul> Norming Handout