Reflection On Team Working Skills

In this reflective account I will state how our team applied a key philosophy into our team-working skills; Napoleon Hill stated “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed”. In our allocated groups we motivated each member of the group to research an allocated topic and report our findings in set meetings organised by the group via email. We generally resolved conflicts efficiently and effectively by using a universal technique called the voting system known to resolve decision-making conflicts efficiently. I intend to discuss the formation of the team, the role of the team size and members and how we resolved conflicts using Meredith Belbin’s Team Roles.

In recent weeks I spent co-ordinating a

We could improve our effective communicating skills by listen carefully to others, well initiate discussions about the task and sense how others feel based on nonverbal interaction. A level of openness, self-disclosure and trust, support and respect is needed in order to gain a confident team and a well literate presentation. As a team we should have individual responsibility and duties of our tasks as we allocated them for each member to do at a reasonable time limit. We could give each other constructive feedback, problem solve efficiently and manage and organise each slide.

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