Comparing Groups to Teams

In order to design appropriate meeting processes, it’s important for you to be aware of the differences between groups and teams, as well as the significant differences between teams at the forming, storming, norming, and performing stages of their development.

What Is a Group?

A group is a collection of people who come together to communicate, tackle a problem, or coordinate an event. Even though they may meet often, they’re a group and not a team because they have specific traits. In most groups. These include:

• individual members operate under their own separate parameters and work to achieve individual goals
• groups usually operate by externally set procedures such as the traditional rules of order