{"id":5651,"date":"2013-01-10T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T11:25:18","slug":"the-stages-of-development-of-a-community-in-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/?p=5651","title":{"rendered":"The stages of development of a community in a team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=5652\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5652\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5652\" alt=\"communaute\" src=\"http:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/12\/communaute.jpeg\" width=\"288\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>I often speak about collaboration or community management, but finally I realize that I have never discussed the various stages of development of a team working in a collaborative way. Maybe your teams are already working this way, but generally they have to cross various stages of maturity before succed to be a real community. Everything is a cycle, a process, which often begins again with the end of a project or changes within the team (hopefully you do not start all over again). If you are interested by that topic, just go and <a href=\"http:\/\/community-roundtable.com\/2009\/06\/the-community-maturity-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">check<\/a> the community maturity model of the community roundtable, a real work of art, more focus about community maturity inside the all organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It goes generally through 4 stages: they can be more or less long, you can spare one of course, it remains a model with all that a model has of restrictive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 1: embryonic community<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The community is more potential than real<\/li>\n<li>Individualism and compartmentalization<\/li>\n<li>Sense of belonging, cooperation, shared responsibility are weak or non-existent<\/li>\n<li>The members of the group can work \u00ab\u00a0indeed\u00a0\u00bb individually but there is no team effet, in an operational point of view as much as a human one<\/li>\n<li>The nature of the organization is characterized by a one to one relationship with the manager \/ facilitator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 2: potential community<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Human cohesion developed on an interpersonal mode<\/li>\n<li>The sense of belonging is real and affects the satisfaction of individuals, even if it does not still impact the \u00ab\u00a0efficiency\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>This stage already presents the advantage of removing the main difficulties encountered in highly compartmentalized teams operating from individualistic practices and strong segmentation tasks<\/li>\n<li>This second stage constitutes the basis of the following by creating an environment that opens doors to cooperation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many companies are at this stage or for a part at the next one<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 3: constituted community<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Establishment and acceptance of a community of objectives<\/li>\n<li>This is the first level of a real team in which each one perceives that operate collaboratively or as an entity does not exclude the individual dimension<\/li>\n<li>All members of the community fit their purpose whit those of the community and accept\u00c2\u00a0personal and operational interdependence<\/li>\n<li>Each one drives its operations in an ongoing relationship with the other, in a permanent effort of cohesion, coherence and sharing<\/li>\n<li>Employees present a strong identification with the stake to the objective, cohesion has become essential, the manager integrates\u00c2\u00a0the totality of the talents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stage 4: Collective Intelligence and collaborative practices<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the stage of collective intelligence operates a quite rare phenomenon\u00c2\u00a0which leads to a unity of understanding and reaction between the different members of the community. At this stage, the collaborative mode is inegrated for each<\/li>\n<li>Their habit of working together, the resulting success, the preliminary work, the confrontation of opinions, tactical scenarios developed together and the use of all the talents&#8230; in the end produce a quick, consistent and coherent reaction whatever the risks that arise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This collective intelligence allows unit reaction in all situations is precisely rooted in the diversity of the persons, diversity known by all and used by all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course to reach this stage of collective functionning, each employee must also have an individual development and understanding of his role inside the team which follows the same way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=5658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5658\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5658\" alt=\"cycle\" src=\"http:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2013\/01\/cycle-e1356359793178.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often speak about collaboration or community management, but finally I realize that I have never discussed the various stages of development of a team working in a collaborative way. Maybe your teams are already working this way, but generally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/?p=5651\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,231],"tags":[456,162,630,621,497,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poncier.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}