This stage is when the group will be most concerned with carrying out its aims and serving its purpose.

By now members will be working well together, with individual strengths and skills being recognised and utilised to their best advantage for the group’s wider aims.

By this stage, the group should have reached a high degree of cohesion and trust, without which motivation is likely to be lower.  Having developed a clear group identity and by each member recognising their roles, the group may become quite independent from the leader.  Other members of the group might take on some of the leadership roles.