Explore forming stage of teams In Supervision, the first part of tackling any problem is to plan. Most teams, when asked to work together, don't get a plan. Don't lay down ground rules and get to know their team members before they start. Most learn how to deal with each other and hit the forming stage pretty hard and then fall into the storming stage, complaining about teammates and almost giving up before the norming stage finally comes around. In your forming stage in this class, you will start laying out ground rules and agreements before you start projects and team building online. The team contact is an agreement of what the team members can expect from each other etc. The team charter is to make a charter just in general