Group Working Essay

1.0 INTRODUCTION This report focuses on a reflection of a group presentation on the case of an incident that happened at North Middlesex Hospital, A and E department, where a patient was found dead after four and half an hour. It also discusses the individual performance contributions, challenges the group encountered and possible solutions to improve on good performance in the future using Tuckman’s theories of group stage development.

1.1 Identify Key Issues and Theories Relating to Group Working and How These Were Applied in their Group The group encountered series of difficulties and challenges which included, disagreement, conflicts, disruption, ego and power tussle which posed a big risk and setback for the group. From

We often had a lot of disagreement, thereby disrupting the success and progress of the group. Ego and power tussle was another problem we encountered but with the help of the co-ordinator and the resource investigator, each team member was able to recognise their various responsibilities and fostered good interactions which helped to solve these issues. Member team A said that I was not confident , that I struggled a lot and appeared too anxious while doing the presentation which i recognised and accepted to work upon when next i will perform a presentation. Member team B said that i was domineering, being self-centered and sometimes appeared to be under pressure, always wanting my decision to be final thereby not giving other team members equal opportunities to air their views and ideas, and I easily get offended when being challenged. I admit these and have learnt from belbin (1993) roles theories that in a team, everyone has an equal opportunity to contribute and should be given the chance to do so. Team member C said that i am a good co-ordinator, implementer and communicator, open to learn but argue a lot, always want to have the final decision. With these comments, Belbin’s role model theories provided an insight for me to evaluate my