I'm back from the workshop with colleagues, where - for the first time ever - I got the pleasure of having a moderated discussion with some teambuilding elements thrown in. It was a fantastic experience, and I did learn a lot about the meta elements of how a group forms and what happens. We were, for instance, introduced to the stages of teambuilding after Tuckman's Theory.
I had never heard of this at any point before, but it does sound familiar, and I found it immensely helpful to know that there will inevitably be some discordancies before everyone has found their place and the group can start to really perform.
Wikipedia has, of course, an article about the four stages of the original model, and also some additions and further developments, so if you are curious now, you can read up on this here.
As for me, I have some stuff to catch up on now, so I'll be off performing in my workgroup of one...