The product improvement team that you are leading finally seems to be getting something done. For a while, it seemed that team members were more interested in whose ideas were addressed rather than the quality of the ideas. People have now started to unite and are establishing some patterns of interaction that seem productive. The members appear to have worked through the _________ stage and entered the _________ stage of group development.
A) forming; performing
B) forming; norming
C) storming; norming
D) storming; warming
E) storming; performing

Question

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The storming stage is where hostilities and conflicts arise, and people jockey for positions of power and status, which occurred when the committee members were arguing about whose ideas were addressed. In the norming stage, group members agree on their shared goals, and norms and closer relationships develop, which occurred when people started coming together.

The Product Improvement Team That You Are Leading Finally Seems