Sadly this trip has come to an end … I accompanied Lindsey, Michelle and Cynthia to the airport for their morning to Abuja, and I will be leaving after lunch to Lagos. Kish, Juan Pablo, Ron, Hermann and Jenni left over the last few days and most should be home by now.
All project teams are meant to go through what Tuckman described as ‘forming, storming, norming and performing’ but interestingly enough in team discussions we realised the second stage did not stand out at all … storming does not always involved conflict though, I guess all team members were mature in their approach towards the CSC assignment and open to each other’s perspectives and ideas. All I am saying is that I feel privileged to have worked with such a team of IBM professionals who may have joined the program as colleagues but whom I consider now as friends above all.
I believe that at one point the team development model above was updated to include a mourning phase … to account for the sense of loss and separation at the end of a project when everyone moves on, in our case back to Australia, Finland, India, Ireland, Venezuela and the US … I am not looking forward to that phase at all !
Before I close out I would recommend you read the following blogs for another angle to this adventure … everyone sees things in a different light and I hope you will enjoy views from some of my travelling companions:
www.favali.net
http://jenninigeriassa.blogspot.com
http://lindseynigeria.blogspot.com/
http://hermannnigeria.blogspot.com/
http://michellekelfkens.blogspot.com/
All project teams are meant to go through what Tuckman described as ‘forming, storming, norming and performing’ but interestingly enough in team discussions we realised the second stage did not stand out at all … storming does not always involved conflict though, I guess all team members were mature in their approach towards the CSC assignment and open to each other’s perspectives and ideas. All I am saying is that I feel privileged to have worked with such a team of IBM professionals who may have joined the program as colleagues but whom I consider now as friends above all.
I believe that at one point the team development model above was updated to include a mourning phase … to account for the sense of loss and separation at the end of a project when everyone moves on, in our case back to Australia, Finland, India, Ireland, Venezuela and the US … I am not looking forward to that phase at all !
Before I close out I would recommend you read the following blogs for another angle to this adventure … everyone sees things in a different light and I hope you will enjoy views from some of my travelling companions:
www.favali.nethttp://jenninigeriassa.blogspot.com
http://lindseynigeria.blogspot.com/
http://hermannnigeria.blogspot.com/
http://michellekelfkens.blogspot.com/
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