Tuckman and Jensen’s Four-Phase Model
Educational psychologist Bruce Wayne
Tuckman, Ph.D. was charged by his boss at
the Naval Medical Research Institute,
Bethesda MD with a review of 50 articles
about team behavior. From this body of work,
Dr. Tuckman conceived his theory of group
developmental processes in 1965.
The Forming Stage: Groups initially concern
themselves with orientation accomplished
primarily through testing. Such testing serves
to identify the boundaries of both
interpersonal and task behaviors. Coincident
with testing in the interp