Title of Assignment: Individual Reflection on Group Consulting Experience
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Evolution of the Team Over Time
My group consisted of 6 members; Karli McDonald, Monica Cozar-Torres, Liliana Rodriguez, me, Leslie Cleaver and Esmeralda Adderley. An all-female group composed of six very driven, busy, resourceful and diligent women. It was the perfect dose and combination of all those characteristics, which created a hard-working team that was open to all the ideas, respected those ideas while embracing the diverse characteristics and skills that each member had to offer.
Our team evolved just as explained in the five-stage model of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning as noted in our textbook Organizational Behavior & Management (Ivancevich, Konopaske, and Matteson 2015). The forming of our
