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Empowering Postgraduate Students: Teaching Teamwork Skills Through Tuckman's Model and Belbin's Team Roles

Empowering Postgraduate Students: Teaching Teamwork Skills Through Tuckman's Model and Belbin's Team Roles
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Copyright: 2025
Pages: 22
Source title: Transformative Practices in Tertiary Education: Bridging Theory and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Siham Omer El-Kafafi (Arrows Research Consultancy Limited, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-8834-1.ch013

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the transformative impact of integrating Tuckman's Model of Team Formation and Belbin's Team Roles on fostering students' creativity, enhancing team effectiveness, and equipping learners with essential teamwork skills for their professional careers. The study focuses on two postgraduate diploma classes, employing a case study methodology to explore the application of Bruce Tuckman's stages of team development—Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning—and Belbin's nine team roles. These frameworks were utilized to guide students in maintaining focus on shared objectives, fostering positive relationships, and achieving optimal team performance. Findings reveal that adopting these models had a significant influence on team dynamics and outcomes. Students developed team ground rules that reinforced shared values and cohesiveness.

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