Tabby Tolman Is a Project Coordinator at Tristar Solutions

Multiple Choice

Tabby Tolman is a project coordinator at Tristar Solutions. Whenever a new project comes her way, she holds a project meeting and follows it up with repeated meetings to address any concerns the team may have and to monitor their progress. However, with the peak of the business season arriving, she has been holding just one project initiation meeting for every project to save on time. She has become increasingly worried about the team's progress with no inputs coming from the members and she has had no time to check with them. With two weeks left to go for a high priority project of a month's duration, she has now begun to see some work coming through and is relieved. This development reflects that the group is at the stage of ________.

A) forming
B) inertia following the first meeting
C) second phase of inertia before the group's last meeting
D) storming
E) transition following the halfway mark in the timeline