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

I am going to be looking at and discussing how to improve on my own and team practice. Within this, I will be discussing why it is important to continue with my professional development and why team work is important in schools. I will also be describing why it is important to be respectful of the skills and expertise that others can bring to the team.

I shared my professional and personal experiences with colleagues. I also partook in health care team activities, where I established and maintained collaborative and productive working contacts with the health care team (Sibiya & Sibiya, 2014). From time to time I consulted with relevant service providers and medical experts identify personal needs as well as strive for improved professional performance

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

In the environment today, it is not unusual to see people working in teams to accomplish certain goals and tasks. During our youth, parents and teachers encourage us through various methods to work as part of a team. Whether a sports team, classroom team, or after school activities, parents and teachers and other authority figures start the introduction of working in teams and teaching the value of being able to work together to accomplish a common goal. As people progress through the various stages of their lives, everyone continues to strive to communicate. Communication is a part of everyday life. It may be overlooked in some areas, but when dealing with a team environment, communication is vital. One

Week ten discussion board I watched the video clip “Balance” from Module three. I will then explain how I feel the film relates to the concept of teamwork. I will also describe the behaviors in the film related to how they react to each other and how it reminds me of staff I have worked within nursing.

Being a part of a team is something I am very familiar with. As a member of the band, volleyball and softball teams I have learned the importance of teamwork and that every person has a vital role to make that team operate smoothly. I am a good listener and I take others opinions seriously. During a prosthetic leg course at UConn, I was able to apply these skills to develop a functional leg. We worked in groups and applied problem solving techniques as well as mathematics by measuring and working with angles to develop our leg. By working as a team, my group and I were able to bounce ideas off each other in order to create a leg that connected to the knee and was able to withstand physical activity. Patients was a huge factor in this project

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

After reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Pat Lencioni, discussing the function of effective teams in class, and completing various team building exercises, I have developed a much better understanding of the importance of a proper team in a business setting and how good team work can produce more efficient and productive results.

I learnt to use my team members to my advantage in order to efficiently complete a job and be open to their feedback and advice in order to perform better myself. Unlike most other members of my Integrated Learning class, I did not work with other students in this experience but rather only adults and officials. As a result, this task may not help with my other communication reliant subjects such as drama – which involves extensive teamwork to perform onstage, save each other should something go wrong, and create a convincing ensemble between us – but rather with my communication with teachers. I learnt a lot from my mentoring officials and have an open mind to things I may not have before, such as more criticism, advice and feedback for my performance in tasks. I think this will benefit me for the rest of this year as well as when I graduate and go into university, where I will learn from lectures and guest speakers offering different types of teachings. Overall, team work is an essential component to all areas of life to complete tasks efficiently with everyone around us. We can achieve more as a community rather than independently, whether with co-workers in a workplace or at home with our family, and as such should never strain from demonstrating this

1- What role did you play in team meetings or discussions (online or face-to-face)? What ideas or. work did you contribute? Consider your verbal (vocal or written tone, etc.) and nonverbal communication (body language, facial expressions, etc).

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.

Poor conflict management, personality differences and unresolved emotional issues, and poor client management are all problems that might occur throughout a group project (Forman and Katsky 25). Poor conflict management happens when teams are unable to resolve issues. Teams avoid conflict and agree on decisions that they may internally disagree on. This can build up resentment. Each team member has different needs, styles, and agendas (Forman and Katsky 25). The student’s motivation on a project can range from a mere requirement to a personal task. Work styles vary in small group situations. Some students are very structured and scrupulous, while others may be more creative and less organized.

Throughout the course, although it was never explicitly highlighted, the idea of people and their differences often stood out to me. There were a few instances in class discussions where Professor Stone would note that a certain scenario would not necessarily be applicable to another location in the world, such as free health care. Despite Canada and the US being neighbors, her frequent notes made it evident that were many differences in such locations that seem so similar on the surface. Varying ideas and opinions were also prevalent in the group setting within the team dynamic – Team 96. We went through the typical teamwork stages of forming, storming, norming, performing, and currently adjourning. We struggled slightly in the storming stage, as we all had the experiences of holding leadership positions in the past – assuming that is one of the reasons why Sauder “hired” us. From this I learned that when working with a team full of leaders, sometimes it is okay to step down and allow others to take control in the areas of their strengths. We realized that a shared understanding in differences is the key to effective collaboration and played to each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Through these key takeaways, I can now effectively contribute to any team as a asset rather than a liability.