Group Reflection Report

Individual Reflection Through this group project, I had an opportunity to reflect how my personality traits played a role on the success of the team. Based on the Big Five Model, I identify myself with low extroversion, moderate neuroticism as well as openness and high agreeableness and conscientiousness. I perceive that some of my personality traits were beneficial to our group project. With moderate levels of openness, I was able to play with ideas and was open to new ideas from other groupmates during our brainstorming session while maintaining a balance between being overly imaginative and conservative as I emphasized on justifications instead of blindly focusing on creative ideas. This ensured that our content was original but at the

Similarly, I was not too neurotic to have extreme negative feelings that may demotivate the other members. I was also able to maintain relatively calm during conflict of ideas in our group. While some traits are beneficial, there were others that did not contribute to the group progress. My main weakness was having low extroversion in which I was shy and reserved, thus hindering me from expressing all my ideas to the group. I would usually analyze an idea repetitively and thoroughly in my mind before suggesting it to the group. This could have lowered our productivity during brainstorming sessions due to the lack of ideas.
While some traits could be generally identified as advantageous and disadvantageous to the group, there were two traits: high on conscientiousness and agreeableness that were dependent on the situation. With the motivation to work, having high conscientiousness was helpful to the group as I assisted in managing the deadlines within our group and was determined to follow through them in order to achieve our long-term goal of producing quality work. However, my organized working style could have exerted pressure on other group mates who have higher productivity working in a flexible timeline and allowed to formulate ad hoc

Realizing that people’s behavior stem from their understanding of what is best, I embraced constructive conflict and was open to discussions instead of avoiding them. With those experiences, we actually came up with more interesting and practical ideas when I, as a part of the group was more understanding of others’ perspective and behavior instead of focusing on my own views, thinking that everyone feels, acts and think in the way that resembles