As a team moves into the performing stage, it becomes more strategically aware and clear about its mission and purpose. In this stage of development, the group has successfully worked though the necessary interpersonal, task, and authority issues and can stand on its own two feel with little interference from the leader. Primarily, the team makes decisions, and disagreements are resolved positively with necessary changes to structure and processes attended to by the team. A mature group is able to control its members through the judicious application of specific positive and negative sanctions based on the evaluation of specific member behaviors. Recent research shows that evaluation biases stemming from liking someone operate in face-to-face groups but not in electronic groups, such as virtual teams.