Team Building and Collaboration

I believe that high-performing groups are the hardest to leave. I was apart of a play called "A Raisin in the Sun" in high school. It was very hard for me to leave such a great cast. For months we worked together on our parts. Our teacher for a week took us up to her home in the mountains the week before the play was to begin to practice together day in and day out. We had grown to be a family. We trusted one another. We loved one another by the end of the play and had formed some serious lasting relationships. I have experienced several closing rituals, but the closing ritual of this play was the best. The cast celebrated together on such great performances given.  We had all become so close. I imagine that I will adjourn from the group of colleagues that have formed while working on my masters with jubilation. I think we will be so proud of our successes that there really will not be time for sadness but joy!!! We will be so glad that we made it, so happy for one another. Adjourning is an essential stage of teamwork because you reflect on your accomplishments and your failures, and some may decide to continue to work together on new task (O'Hair &Wiemann).