Throughout the first six weeks, we have been together working as a small “family” depending on and cooperating with each other in order to satisfy and accomplish our objectives. Although we encountered difficulties that didn’t meet our expectations while working together, we continued and will remain to strive for better works in near future. Our goal to achieve in this project does not depend on making every assignment perfect, but to conquer each challenge we encountered and learn from each failure. From past six weeks, we learned that we still have many areas needed to be improved in order to maximize the dynamics and specialities for each member. As a group, we look forward to persisting in attaining our objectives with our strength, perseverance and cooperation.

 

MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE REFLECTION

What?

The members in this West Point Grey Legion group was assigned randomly with some members working together for the first time. Since everyone came from different backgrounds, our group encountered communication issues. This lack of communication with one of the members lead us to realize the importance of listening and reaching out to each other on either school work or how each group member participates in different tasks.

So What?

This tells us the importance of appropriate communication in teamwork in order to have a group working together cooperatively. In our case, we learned to listen to other people’s ideas and made sure that everyone were available during group meetings. Other than understanding the importance of communication, team dynamic plays a significant role on working efficiently (West 2012). Each member are specialized in different tasks, therefore, we will try to evenly distribute work to maximize the quality of our work.

Now what?

For future reference, our group has decided to meet up outside of classroom so all of us can communicate face to face. We will make sure that every member is assigned with an important role that maximize people’s ability in different tasks. When starting each work, we will take a close overview of the project content and divide the work loads evenly before separating. Whenever a member encounters problems or has questions, the whole team will help out to solve the problem together. We all agreed on to reply messages within the day someone posted the question so we can be on task. With the current strategies we have aiming to try to solve problems that may occur during heavy workload, we would also reflect among ourselves on how works are done every week to seek for improvements.

 

Reference

Rolfe et al.’s (2001) reflective model. (n.d.). Retrieved October 12, 2016, from http://my.cumbria.ac.uk/Public/LISS/Documents/skillsatcumbria/ReflectiveModelRolde.pdf

West, M. A. (2012). Effective teamwork: Practical lessons from organizational research (3rd; 3 ed.). Malden, MA; Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley.