exercise · all tools
Team Dynamics
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Reads a team against Tuckman's five stages of group development — forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning — so that friction is recognised as a stage rather than a failure. Used in the guide at the point where a young leader's initiative has become a group with its own difficulties.
Hold with care
- Naming which stage a real team is in becomes a judgment about present colleagues; the guide does not warn about this
Practical
- Time
- 20-25 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Worksheet in the guide
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_… — Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Bruce Tuckman — Five stages of group development, adapted in UNFPA's Step Up! pocket guide (2021)
In this directory via Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders
status: checked · added 2026-08-29