Reflective Learning Journal Analysis

My week was long and a bumpy rollercoaster. I was sick towards the first half of the week which made my days drag. However, I remained energetic for my class because this week was Read Across America week. The school had a Dr. Seuss book theme each day. I dressed up and the kids dressed up. It was so sweet and we delved into Dr. Seuss. We discussed his stories messages, the rhymes, real words vs. made-up words, and connections to our lives. The only downside was that a handful of our students were sick this week. On Wednesday, our class started out at fourteen and by 12:45 we had eight students left. It made classroom management easier, but I missed the smiling faces of the absent students.

Whenever we form a group or team at my job one of the first things we do is assign and define roles and responsibilities. Motivation and satisfaction of team members can be increased when they are assigned roles congruent with individual strengths and abilities (Fischer, n.d.). This task could help eliminate your issues concerning role conflict. When a group has an assigned leader it can function without the continual question of who is in charge. Additionally, assigned roles can help with your groups’ competition of what individual or job is most important; everyone can recognize the uniqueness of each individual’s

My role in the project was make sure all our ideas followed within the guidelines of the instructions.  I would occasionally throw an idea out to my peers, but with an introverted group I usually wouldn't get much feedback.  As the project came to expiration I learned that even though sometimes being in a group makes the work load lighter it can also occasionally make the work harder since it's more difficult to mold multiple individuals preconceptions into one

For this week’s journal, I am going to write about previous encounters and experiences that happened to me when I worked on hospital floors and Intensive Care Units (ICU). I am going to reflect on these experiences and explain how they may shape or affected my perspective on life and my possibly my philosophy of education.

I have often dreaded group projects, throughout my 4 years at Dalhousie University, I’ve never really had a good experience with them. So going into this class, my expectations were really low. I didn’t expect that I would actually enjoy working on these modules, and so much that I’ve worked with the same team for all 3 modules. This arrangement has allowed us to continue to develop our writing, research and presentations skills, as well as improve upon weaknesses, in our previous modules as well as personal skills that we want to improve. Personally, through these modules I have developed my presentations skills further, and through this particular module, I learned how to approach a problem or project from a different perspective, from different stakeholders.

The group we are going to talk about is our academic group in BUS 541 class. We have been work together as a group through the whole semester, we have finished the group analysis I, and we have presented two cases analysis online. Therefore, we will analysis our group’s formation, membership, dynamics, and specifically groupthink.

On Wednesday August 26th, 2015 I began my preceptorship on B6, which is the Neurology floor at Jackson General Hospital. My Preceptor was Colleen Hardee and she was the Unit Director of the floor. I started my day on the floor around 0745 and remained until approximately 1430. When I asked the clinical manager about the mission of the department, she directed me to their website. The statement found there is this: “Comprised mainly of restricted endowments, the Foundation provides endowment management services to other nonprofits as well as manages endowments that provide for many of the healthcare needs of West Tennessee Healthcare and our communities.”

There are many advantages and disadvantages of working on groups. Not only in class, but also in your work and with your family members. When I was starting my Comn 154 I didn’t know anybody of my group; but in each class I spent some time meeting in groups with my classmates and this was really help full for me in order to integrate myself with the rest of the group. Also, another equally important advantage of working in groups is to have the opportunity to share my ideas and knowledges with others. And finally, when I am working in a group this will obviously help me to learn a bunch of new things from my Classmates and their cultures.

In a Forbes article, Glenn Llopis explains the importance of having clearly defined roles and responsibilities in order to establish a successful team. Llopis states “each of your team member’s responsibilities must be interconnected and dependent upon one another” (Glenn, 2012). Google’s HR team member’s roles and responsibilities are equally distributed amongst the “three-thirds” group, but lack interdependence. Manjula and Aggarwarl (2015) confirm that an organization should create a culture that clearly communicates that “expectation that teamwork and collaboration are expected” (Manjula & Aggarwal,

I have personally been in groups where I do all the work because the members of my group are unreliable. For this project we were very fortunate to have no conflicts. We all worked extremely well to complete the project in a timely manner. This occurs because group members do not actively communicate their goals. This can also occur because a group does not know how to effectively problem solve. The first step to solving a problem is to figure out the cause. Next, group members must carefully look at ways to solve the problem. Lastly, the best solution should be used and hopefully will aid in the group project’s problem. Group projects can also be ineffective when a member does not know their task. To avoid this problem all members must be on the same page. This can be done by assigning out specific tasks for each member. The tasks can be given out by a member who is a democratic leader and listens to everyone’s. This is opposed to an authoritarian leader who controls the group. By following these steps a group project will be very effective and useful to the

In this paper, I will discuss many theories and the impact they have on leadership, group dynamics and team building, and how those principles have affected me in my career and how I will apply these principles in the future.

As we begin to form our self-managed work teams this week for the final report and presentation due at the end of session, I begin to reflect on the situations where I have had to be part of a group. Accordingly, past experiences have led me to form a generally negative viewpoint with regards teamwork in both the education and workplace setting. In most situations, group work is facilitated by a single leader responsible for ensuring that all members complete their work to the required standard. Nevertheless, this has lead to situations where team members often become unproductive or dysfunctional. For one thing, conflict – whether it be task or relational – arises between team members and leaders when they begin to feel that they are subject to the leader’s authoritarian behaviour or scrutiny. For another, the leaders responsible for the management of the group begin to feel underappreciated or dissatisfied with the levels of task productivity generated by group members. In stating this, I have experienced both sides of single leadership team management – with mostly disastrous results – where negative team performance ultimately reflected on assessment grades.

As college students, we run into many challenges associated with group work. We face challenges such as time, effort, communication and leadership skills. We also have various attitudes and different outlooks when it comes to certain topics. The process of this project was very simple. When we got together as a group to discuss the topic, our views were somewhat similar and easy to compromise. We each as a group signed up for a specific part to focus our attention on, but we all contributed to each part. We chose to do it this way because working in such a big group it’s very difficult to work around everyone’s schedule

Instead I would relate to the group project we do in our master’s. I have been part of many different groups with different nationalities. I have closely observed each and every person how he or she performs, what is the procedure and stuff. The first question I wanted to know was the approach how people approach things differently. Its great to get to know different people different culture their approaches and mainly their thinking. One thing which I observed in class is when given the opportunity to the class to form their own groups nationality is what people choose and that hurts me. I have other 5 Indians with me but we always want to work with others I thinks that is what international business is all about working in a diverse team, some of them have bad examples to post that a person led the performance down but it always happen that way. The dynamics of team work is the main part of success. We had a marketing project to do but we as a team never got well with each other. Everyone had their priorities and thus we performed bad. Everyone wanted to go home and do their part alone instead of sitting together and sharing and creating ideas. This was the worst group work I was the part

A learning journal (also known as a learning log, thoughtful journal, personal improvement journal, etc.) is a personal best of our learning. It is an assortment of notes, observations, thoughts and other relevant resources built‐up over a period of time and perhaps a result of a period of study, learning and/or working experience. Its purpose is to boost our learning through the process of imprinting and thinking about our learning experiences. My book learning journal is personal to me and will reproduce my personality, predilections and capabilities.