Reflection Essay
A Critical Reflective Essay on My Roles and Contributions in the Task of “Business”
The residential weekend was a really delightful holiday and a meaningful experience in my postgraduate study. That teamwork training was very unforgettable, even though time passing so long. During those three days training, there are lots of impressive events happened. Through looks at those events with a critical eye, those make me changed and certainly I also develop myself in some areas. This paper is going to examine my personal behaviors and present a self—awareness, and shows an analysis of my individual role that relevant with this personal experience. In this reflective essay, the principle purposes are to find out whether I am suitable for working with others who come from different cultures and backgrounds or not, and whether I possess of good leadership and teamwork skills or not. In order to do this, it will be briefly described these critical events in the first part, and then it will emphasized my individual roles and contributions as part of our team. During this process, some relevant academic theories (such as leadership, communication, cooperation and team conflicts) and some models of team behaviour (such as Belbin Roles, learning style, Adair-Action-Centred leadership, Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Grid) will be adopted to evaluate my performance and potential personal development.
Before reflecting on my individual performance, I would like to briefly describe those critical events and summarize the overall situation. At the first day, there were lots of difficulties occurred within our team. I had no idea about what I can do, I don’t know the rules of the task and act independently, because each of us were lack of communication, understanding and planning, especially the missile task, this tasks aim was to get a bucket onto a platform on the top of a pole. We all seemed a bit overwhelmed by the task. It is very hard
The residential weekend was a really delightful holiday and a meaningful experience in my postgraduate study. That teamwork training was very unforgettable, even though time passing so long. During those three days training, there are lots of impressive events happened. Through looks at those events with a critical eye, those make me changed and certainly I also develop myself in some areas. This paper is going to examine my personal behaviors and present a self—awareness, and shows an analysis of my individual role that relevant with this personal experience. In this reflective essay, the principle purposes are to find out whether I am suitable for working with others who come from different cultures and backgrounds or not, and whether I possess of good leadership and teamwork skills or not. In order to do this, it will be briefly described these critical events in the first part, and then it will emphasized my individual roles and contributions as part of our team. During this process, some relevant academic theories (such as leadership, communication, cooperation and team conflicts) and some models of team behaviour (such as Belbin Roles, learning style, Adair-Action-Centred leadership, Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Grid) will be adopted to evaluate my performance and potential personal development.
Before reflecting on my individual performance, I would like to briefly describe those critical events and summarize the overall situation. At the first day, there were lots of difficulties occurred within our team. I had no idea about what I can do, I don’t know the rules of the task and act independently, because each of us were lack of communication, understanding and planning, especially the missile task, this tasks aim was to get a bucket onto a platform on the top of a pole. We all seemed a bit overwhelmed by the task. It is very hard
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