Working With and CelebratingAutistic Colleagues
Course overview Module 2 · Stages of group development on a neurodiverse team
Module 2 · 30 min · 5 pages

Stages of group development on a neurodiverse team

~30 min total · Earn: Stage Reader

Bruce Tuckman's five stages of group development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning) describe every team you've ever joined. They do not describe neurotypical teams more than autistic ones. But the default behaviors managers use to move a group through each stage often assume one specific style of interaction. This module reads each stage for a neurodiverse team.

Formingpolite caution; norms unstatedStormingconflict surfacesNormingdefaults harden; risk of maskingPerforminghigh output; watch invisible costAdjourningpredictable ending mattersFive stages of group development, read for neurodiverse teams
Module 2 overview diagram. Five stages of group development, read for neurodiverse teams.

Pages in this module

  1. 2.1 Forming and Storming, read for a neurodiverse team
  2. 2.2 Norming: where the team's culture quietly hardens
  3. 2.3 Performing and Adjourning — output without invisibility
  4. 2.4 Using the stage diagnostic in your next 1:1
  5. 2.5 Module 2 checkpoint