Graduate Recruitment Strategy

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Abul Shama Graduate Recruitment Supervisor
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Teamwork

• Bruce Tuckman, 1965
• Phases are all necessary and inevitable - in
  order for the team to grow, to face up to
  challenges, to tackle problems, to find
  solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results.
  

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Lifecycle of Teams

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing

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Forming

• Meet and greet
• Talk about safe topics such as the weather
• Independent behaviour
• Sitting by yourself, arms folded
• Polite and courteous
• Asking questions, being tentative
• Agree on goals and issues

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Storming

• Different ideas
• Different experiences, qualifications, ideas
• Competition
• Wanting to be the best, Alpha Male
• Confrontation
• Desire to destroy the opposition
• Painful but necessary
• Part of growing up, need to be tolerant to avoid
  failure!

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Norming

• Adjustments
• Making changes to allow creativity
• Compromises
• Meeting in the middle to dispel loggerheads
• Trust
• Recognising strengths of others

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Performing

• Flowing
• Less confrontations and disagreements
• Functional
• Efficiency increases due to time management
• Interdependence
• Each member understands their role
• Recycling
• Groups may go thorough storming phase again

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TRIBAL
PERFORMING
NORMING
MOURNING
STORMING
FORMING
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