Reflection On Teamwork

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

Teamwork is important to complete any task and without it you have chaos. Everyone knows the saying “a team is only as strong as the weakest player,” this saying can be put to use for sports but it doesn't come into play for other industries. If doctors, pilots, food industries, and construction workers used this for everyday work they would be more efficient. Furthermore, every industry that has ever existed knows that there is always going to be something unexpected. Gawande recommends that when a team is working together and they can't seem to figure out what the problem is they should, “stop and talk through the case together”(101). When a group of workers uses this democratic way of thinking they critique each other and end up improving one another by showing them a different way of thinking. For example, many think surgeons rule the operation room and what they say goes, but in actuality they make mistakes like everyone else so this rule will actually save lives.

Reflect critically and individually on the experience of producing your presentation as a shared piece of work, and discuss the implications for collaborative working as an underpinning principle of health and social care policy. At its simplest concept, collaboration infers that people from different professional and academic backgrounds form a working relationship for the purpose of enhanced service provision. (Audrey, L. 2003). The SCIE (2013) suggest that because issues within health and social care can often be complicated and service users may have a multitude of needs, collaboration is extremely important in health and social care as it allows practitioners to share ideas and develop their knowledge.

The process of working with a team has helped to shape my character and has influenced the way I approach social situations. Through experiencing groups that have worked together with varying levels of success I have acquired numerous positive attributes. The first being patience. Patience with the other people in the group, patience with oneself, and patience for the group to begin to work functionally. Most things are not discovered, created, or perfected at first glance or attempt so one must learn to be capable of waiting. Furthermore, I enhanced my communication skills. I was a reserved child, but through being placed in situations where teamwork was present I was provided with the tools necessary to fluently and efficiently communicate. Finally, I learned to have confidence in myself. Teamwork revealed to me the power all individuals hold within them and that other people are understanding. I will forever be grateful to the marvelous individuals that composed the teams and groups that exposed me to teamwork because they taught me valuable life

As part of the two person executive secretariat team at Embassy Baghdad, I helped support our primary Mission Iraq goals: protecting America’s security by countering violence and instability, and renewing America’s competitive economic advantage through bilateral relationships and economic reform. Our team not only directly supported the Ambassador’s and the Deputy Chief of Mission's (DCM) engagement with the highest-level Iraqi interlocutors, but also supported working level meetings and reporting from all sections at Post, including USAID and the Departments of Defense, Treasury, and Justice. In the six months since my arrival, our team has processed more than 1,000 papers. Our work, almost always completed on the day of receipt, includes editing for grammar and content, checking and securing clearances, and drafting supplementary

A critical reflective analysis of my own and my colleague’s performance during our class based teamwork.

Working together will make the members understand each other ,understand the main goal, make the relationships strong and will effective communication. All these will help to achieve team’s goal.

My response to a worker who is extremely angry is to approach this person in a calm manner. Ask the person if they would like to take a walk with me or come in to my office for a quiet chat. Let them know that you have observed that there is something wrong. This way they know that at least you have identified that there is a problem. I would then ask what they are angry about. Why they are angry, is there anyone in particular they are angry with or are they angry with themselves and what outcome they would like to see. If the person is angry with a colleague then I would ask these questions. What is the colleague doing to make you angry? Are they not listening to you or are they not being a team player?

Teamwork is the joint action by a group to complete a given task. This was displayed by group 20 as each member contributed their individual knowledge and skills towards the team as well as the course objective.

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

In Chapter 2, “Put it Together: Building Collaborative Teams,” the main topic is how teams are expected to produce results. When team members do not work well together the performance is hindered. Collaborative team’s environment is important for the team’s success in order to create a positive collaborative environment. Having a common purpose and goals by working together. Without a common goal, there is no team or ideas. The team discuss what goals are attainable and why the team exists. Each team member must express their commitment and come up with ideas to add to the individualized transition plan. Making sure to clarify the responsibly when action planning and learn what others do on the team. Figuring out ways to help each other

When I have to work in a team, I try to reach success with others participants in assigned activities. I do not take the role of leader or follower. I consider myself just another participator, but always thinking about doing everything right and clean. I have always had in mind that teamwork are all those actions and activities that are carried out collectively. In order for there to be an excellent group work, I think is necessary is that the actions are developed collectively. This means that to carry out group work, the existence of an entertainer or coordination is not necessary. The collective performance of an action is sufficient, within the framework of mutual interaction.

Teamwork can be complex and challenging given task and interpersonal issues, level of group motivation and expected performance standards. The concrete experience spoken about in this reflection piece is in reference to the effectiveness of myself as a group member and the group, working to write a report outlining the organisation and structure of Volkswagen. Dennison (2009) applies Kolb’s learning cycle (1981, 1984) which suggests that learning moves through a continuous cycle, between having an experience, and then reflecting on that action. This cycle has been developed from Lewin’s (1951) model for experiential learning. Reflection termed by Boud, Keogh and Walker (1985) ‘is a forum of response to the learner to experience’(p. 18). On reflection, the early set group dynamics was a defining factor in the experience, and how the team conducted themselves throughout the task. Meyerson, Wick and Kramer (1996) note that ‘such rapidly converging groups require methods for developing “swift trust”’ (p. 8), which can explain why initial group dynamics are so important. I took on multiple team roles, including group leader, which could be translated into the team not performing collectively on a high level, however, I could view this as a personal ineffectiveness of my leadership style.

“Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning that enhances the total output of the activity than when done individually”.

I am the second team member. On my part, I am a senior instructor analyst with