Cultural and Teamwork Map and Self Reflection

To further understand Belbin Team Role Theory, I, together with four students formed a team and simulated as being authorized by the Songjiang Government Bureau to investigate into the current situation and the prospect of the higher education industry in Songjiang District. Through unremitting team efforts, we successfully demonstrated our findings and recommended several ideas via a formal presentation. Reviewing the three-months-long process of cooperation, I really found this experience of learning meaningful and fruitful. This reflective essay is a conclusion of my sympathetic introspection of the

The identification and understanding of an individual’s role and that of the other team member’s roles is crucial as is the recognition of how the different roles complement each other and work together.

In my current position my role varies from getting involved with fraud investigations and analysing large amounts of data to chasing implementation of the audit recommendations issued by our auditors. My other duties include general office management and IT support, IT issues resolution for the whole team and any ad hoc duties the officers might need my help with. I monitor and process all of the invoices for the audit and anti-fraud division and my statistics for the invoices paid on time has been at 100% since I took over this role. I also support the Head of Internal Audit and the Head of Fraud.

As you will note from my CV, I hold a First Class BA Honours Degree in Childhood and Family Studies and Education Studies. Whilst the majority of the modules I studied were based around developing my knowledge of working with children and families, some modules were focused on my professional and ethical practice.

Our team decided not to split specific duties amongst each team member but rather approach the task as one unit. We had members with various backgrounds in different concentrations and we tried to use a synergistic strategy, where we would sum all of those skills together to have different viewpoints to consider rather than assigning each member to an area of expertise.

I personally think I took on the roles of co-ordinator, team leader, monitor-evaluator and completer (Hartly, 2010 p.6), for example, I was the first to comment on the wiki and continue with the groups week to week activities to keep the group moving forward. I also kept the wiki up to date, while also making sure everyone was on task with the assessment. Even though it was a long drawn out process, I tried to get everyone collaborating on the group wiki provided and also took the lead to keep in contact with our eLA about the progress of a team, due to complications with team members not showing or disappearing through the

Although I perceive myself as diffident upon analysis I am unaware of how others may perceive my self. According to Barber, McLaughlin and Wood (2009, p. 76) The Johari Window; Luft and Ingham (1955) can show us aspects of ourselves that we

As the Researcher, my job was to research for my team. I was assigned to gather two websites , one article, and one biography or autobiography. Over the week I also helped other people in my group. For example, I helped Angelica calculate the amount of people Edel Quinn help throughout her life. I also looked for three direct quotes, and three indirect quotes. At the end of all of this, I learned so much about Edel Quinn and what she did to help others. As the leader, Maria asked us to do specific job. She also helped each of us, specifically as the leader . Even though she was not able to come one day, she still went out of her way to reach out to us and direct us. As the writer, Angelica did most of the writing in this S.T.R.E.A.M

I can often count on you to complete task in an effective and efficient manner. Your ability to execute when needed makes you invaluable to me. Once the plan is in place you take the ball and run with it. I have also noted that when issues arise you can step out of that preferred role of execution, and offer constructive creative options. I would say you predominantly exhibit the traits associated with the role of executor in a team setting, however, I believe you do have the capacity to step outside of that predominant trait at any time accomplish the team goal. I think that versatility will benefit you greatly as you move along in your career.

In this essay I am going to reflect on my experience working as part of a team and the preparation on an oral presentation I had to do in class with people from different courses, as part of the Foundations for Practice in Health and Social Care module. Reflection is educational and is used as a means of self-knowledge and to develop using a process of feeling and learning by thinking about what happened and what could have been done differently. (Rolfe, 2011, p.8-12) I will be using the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle to do this. In this model there are 6 different stages to look at to help structure reflection, the description of the event, your feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and an action plan. There is more than one model

However, there are cases people can refuse self-awareness. According to Maslow (1962), people avoid acquiring new knowledge about themselves because of the uncertain and uncomfortable feelings they can receive (as cited in Whetten & Cameron, 2011). Whetten and Cameron (2011) believe dis-closure is the key for people to overcome that panic. By discussing one’s own aspects with others, people can reduce the ambiguity of problems. For instance, through exchanging results of self-analysis toolkits in Developing Self seminars, people can be more aware of their own strengths and weaknesses as well as receive feedbacks from others. Their Johari Window of what I know and what others know can be more extended.

From completing the questionnaire I think my core skills of team working and communication need moderate development. The team roles that best describe me are: Monitor Evaluator, Team worker and Completer/Finisher (Belbin 1993). If I know myself as well as I think I do, I think these roles are more in line with my personality. At work I get involved in various projects and 4

“Two heads are better than one.” We’ve all heard the old adage encouraging teamwork. Of course with more minds set on a specific goal, more ideas you access. So, we can finish our works on time. The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal is what we call teamwork. When people work in a team, they will try to cooperate with each others, use their individual skills and providing constructive feedback. When a team works well together as a unit they are able to accomplish more than its individual members can do alone. Different members apply different skills, they are often able to come up with a more effective solution than one person working on the same problem. Teamwork is absolutely fundamental for teams to work effectively. A team combines individual s.trengths with a shared commitment to performance, it’s not just about getting on well together. That’s why I like to work in a team. Only when joined the strengths ang skill of individual team members with

The world offers significant business opportunities for every company, however, opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges for managers. Managing global operations across diverse cultures and markets represents a big challenge and opportunity for companies. To compete in the global market and be successful, companies must learn the strategies, policies, norms and technology necessary to conduct international business. The opportunities for global expansion are numerous, and attaining success is a matter of developing the right strategy to win local markets and its consumers.

Global economy has become a hot topic for international forums. It believed that the value of IT off shore consists of better process management of operational skillfulness. So, they should put effort in developing technology platforms to make business more efficient.