Running Head: SELF REFLECTION & TEAMWORK

Self-Reflection on Teamwork through Gibbs Reflective Model

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Self-Reflection on Teamwork through Gibbs Reflective Model

Introduction

Teamwork can be characterised by a combination of people's activities and with the

ultimate goal of working together and achieving success (Ponte et al., 2010). Everyone on the

team is committed to achieving the objectives of a large group. The team tries to make progress,

but it is not necessary that group attain the achievement (Hoffman & Redman-Bentley, 2012).

Within a group, each member has a role to fulfil to complete the team’s goal ultimately. These

efforts add new and critical metrics to the collaboration of members of the group (Ku et al.,

2013). I will reflect on my experience from my teamwork and all the lessons I have learned

through the means of Gibbs reflection model.

Description

I was involved in a group activity as a significant aspect of my acquisition from the week

(1-4). My group and I were working on a case study analysis, collaborating as a group, and

providing a presentation for displaying our findings. Based on my understanding, I have

recognised that a team is composed of several people with distinctive interest, although the group

works dynamically and interdependently, with a fantastic relationship, unique knowledge, and

learning and interaction with each other, regardless of the joint obligation (Curran et al., 2010).

The members of the group came from a variety of backgrounds, culture and religions, including

those we have never even seen before. Despite this, we deliberated about the presentation and

completion of the final questions, such as how the materials will be exhibited and who may be
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the representative of our group. We also use this group meeting to express whether we agree or

refute over some of the affirmations made by conducting studies throughout the task.

Feelings

Although I was quite calm at the beginning, I became more amiable over time, and before

the end of the session, I began to contribute my ideas and views to the team discussion. I believe

this potential silence indicated that the group overawes my inner feelings. The strange thing is

that the group task and presentation went smooth, and members of my team were excited about

the topic of the presentation. I mainly believe that I am an extremely certain individual. I think

that I find it very easy to take responsibilities and I am proactively engaged in team activities.

Nonetheless, this was not the case during the above-mentioned team activities. Reading and

studying helped me to have a general understanding of all technical terms, and improved our

group exchange our thoughts and expanded our insights through diverse conversations.

Evaluation

In general, I found the experience of collaborative work very valuable because it gave me

the opportunity to learn many topics, which were being studied, and irradiating my shortcomings

when working with the new group. As it has been emphasised that, the experiential learning is

essential and that it involves organising and creating learning through reflection on a convenient

environment so that they can promote improved activities (Xiao et al., 2013). My experience in

teamwork has made this critical reflection possible. These tasks give me the opportunity to reach

out to a wide variety of people from a different background; some of the members were more

experienced than I was. Working in a multi-faceted gathering allowed us to benefit from a

variety of perspectives, in addition to a range of learning and experience. This made our

presentation more balanced and multifaceted than it would have been if my teams only contained

people like me.

Analysis

According to some assumptions about group work, I think that I usually have the skill of

working well in a team and fulfilling the role of resource investigators, team worker and

implementer. The motivation for me to excel myself as an implementer depended on the way I

was responsible for fulfilling my commitment to using the social network in our group

campaign. I enjoyed the implementation of plans in our group task, we have agreed upon in the

team as a whole. I believe that the title of the team worker applies to me, even though I feel that I

can make more contributions towards the group, but my opinion indicates that, I am regarded as

a decent member by other people in the team. My experience working in-group is that we

established a suitable primary leadership process that we used to achieve the central part of the

subject we are studying. We also set clear limits on how the group will work.

Conclusion

I have observed that teamwork is a particularly rewarding and educational experience

regarding the significance of having the ability to play an admirable role in a team (Sundberg et

al., 2017). It notified me about certain parts of my personality and behaviour, especially

concerning cooperation with new individuals otherwise, I would have been ignorant of it in some

way. The main point I may want to improve is my certainty and conviction, which will allow me

to contribute more plans to aggregate my work. This will help me work with multidisciplinary
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teams at the university and in my future work. In general, I found that Gibbs model helped to

focus on each unique area of participation, with the ultimate goal of assessing and improving

qualities in a systematic way (Quinton & Smallbone, 2010) and as well as areas such as those

mentioned above that I would like to improve. I want to make great strides in my educational

venture.

Action plan

If I have the opportunity to work in a group again, I will let myself have a full-time study

and collaboration efforts to make the team as profitable as possible. In the future, I will guarantee

a benevolent and robust connection with the team members. I have already made useful

discussions with my group, and we set up a group execution plan together for the next

opportunity, so I will not feel so stressed about anything else in the team. I think I will be able to

learn more from them. This experience made me understand that I have to show confidence and

enthusiasm through my presentation skill, and I feel that improving my abilities will help me to

do this.
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