I. The Five Stages of Team Development 1. Forming Stage Team members initially meet and get together to introduce themselves in order to know each other for the sake of completing the task. 2. Storming Stage Team member are facing many struggles, conflicts, and tensions that are arising most likely about the way and the procedure to get the task done. 3. Norming Stage Team members began to combine forces and agree on some accomplishments rules. They start to work together in cooperative, goal, and task-oriented way. 4. Performing Stage Team members reach a total integration for being not only well organized, but also well-functioning. This stage marks a step of maturity when team member will most likely succeed to resolve complex issues and disagreement. 5. Adjourning Stage Team members reached disbanding step. They successfully accomplished their task and they are committed to any future tests since there are willing to meet relationship, task, and self-management objectives. When it comes to Christine`s team, it is at storming stage. The reason for saying is the tensions that are consistently occurring in the team. Schermerhorn was referring to this and explained, "Storming stage is a period of high emotionality and tensions among the group members" (Schermerhorn, et al., 2012). Tensions were rising for many reasons: unannounced and unscheduled meeting that Mark continued to miss; therefore, other team members have difficulty to be sincere, motivated, and organized for completing the assignment. This means lack of communication in the whole team and Christine seemed unable to communicate, train, supervise, and control the team. Consequently, first, Christine needed to learn and know series of team development stages mention above. She might probably handle the situation differently if she respected these stages that must be followed orderly; she must learn the way to move systematically and the first stage is the forming one that n