Team Building and Collaboration, Part 1- The adjourning process

I have been involved in many different groups in my life that I found it difficult to choose the highest performing group that was hard to leave.  After deep thought I came up with a group I was involved in at Wilberforce University.  We met every week for class off campus in a business office.  We became very close as we learned about Information Technology.  We were also very close with the instructor, too.  When it came time for the program to end, we had huge pizza party and gave our farewells.  We exchanged telephone numbers, email addresses and we stayed in touch for a little while.  However as the years pass we fell out of touch and do not communicate as much.

I found that group the hardest to leave because we worked well as a team to succeed in the BS degree program.  As I am engage with the colleagues in this course, I feel that we have grown to know each other by reading our blog’s, discussion boards, and emails.  It will be hard to face the end of the course because of being familiar of meeting with the group daily to discuss aspects of our lives related to our career.  I hope that we will adjourn by sharing email addresses and staying in contact as much as possible, as we pursue our goals.

The adjourning process of teamwork is the part where teams celebrate the accomplishments or review the errors to prevent it from occurring again (Abudi, 2010).  We say goodbye and look forward somewhere in the future to come together again as a team.

Reference:

Abudi, G. (2010). The five stages of team development: A case study. Retrieved from http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.html