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Individual Reflection On Group Dynamics

   

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2PERSONAL REFLECTION IntroductionMy team members and I recently went out on a team building program. We were able to share personal experiences about life as students and also carried out team building activities. These activities helped us as team members to bring out our strengths and weaknesses in the group. Using the Belbin’s Team Roles Theory, I was able to identify the attributes of all 4 team members. It emerged that am a team worker & resource investigator. Jason too has the attributes of a team worker and resource investigator. Rebecca is a good coordinator and implementer while Gurpeet possesses the attributes of a completer finisher. These different qualities as well ascultural differences played out in the group dynamics. 2
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3PERSONAL REFLECTION The team building activity helped me to understand how the different attributes strengths,and talents of the group members could be harnessed to achieve the objectives set out by the team. According to the Belbin’s Team Roles Theory the condition that must be met for a tem to perform at its best is that each of the members must have their responsibilities clear cut (Twardochleb, 201). This is for the simple reason that each member has a specific role and possesses a unique set of strengths skills and abilities that will be necessary in handling a specificarea of the group task at hand. As a team worker in our group my role would be equated to that of a negotiator. This manifested in the manner in which I rose to the occasion to level things during moments when conversations in the group were turning out to be argumentative or confrontational. According to the Belbin’s Team Roles theory such a person in the group must have the following traits; they must be diplomatic, persuasive and flexible (Monroe, 2016, p. 778). These are attributes that are necessary for one to foster team cohesion and ensure that the team is working together efficiently and effectively. Belbin submits that while the role of team worker is very essential to the success of a group, individuals with this character also have a number of shortcomings. Most of the time team workers tend to shy from taking up committed positions in the group and remain indecisive (Zanlungo et al., 2017). As much as this is perceivably a limitation or weakness, my experience is that it is also a strategy necessary if one isto play the role of a good negotiator in the group. Why do I say so? It is untenable for the negotiator of the group to adopt a firm stance since he or she is the one who is supposed to quell tensions and cool tempers in the face of difficulties. Another necessary attribute that the team building exercise helped to bring out in me is that if a resource investigator. The Belbin’s Team Roles Theory holds that resource investigators are usually extroverted individuals. As such most of the team members tend to be receptive to 3
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