opyright Nancy Leveson, Sept. 1999 Stage 1: Forming Team members begin to discover what behaviors are acceptable Usually highly unstructured environment Attempt to identify tasks, how to accomplish them Decisions on what information is needed Hesitant participation Test behavioral assumptions, how to handle each other Intellectualizing Complaints about organizational issues Suspicions, fear, anxiety about new situation Minimal work accomplishedCopyright Nancy Leveson, Sept. 1999 c Stage 1: Forming Team members begin to discover what behaviors are acceptable. Usually highly unstructured environment Attempt to identify tasks, how to accomplish them Decisions on what information is needed Hesitant participation Test behavioral assumptions, how to handle each other Intellectualizing Complaints about organizational issues Suspicions, fear, anxiety about new situation Minimal work accomplished �