Assignment on Codes of Ethics in Australia

Running head: ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Reflective Group Experience
Name
Institution

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2
Portfolio 2
Introduction
Today, organisations and educational institutions require employees and students to
embrace teamwork at coordinative and tolerant levels.
Description of experience
Our assignment was a group presentation on codes of ethics in Australia. We first began
by forming a group then selected a leader to ensure clear and smooth communication and finally
shared what the assignment was. For example, in our group, the task was to examine the
importance of a code of ethics. We found out that codes of ethics are part of the regulation in the
society. ACS is vital for anyone working in ICT departments.
My contribution
During the presentation, I was able to give my contribution through speaking and
listening to ideas from other students. For this presentation on ethics, I used leadership skills to
suggest we divide work into small parts and then assign each part to each member in a group. I
applied management skills by asking my group members to suggest on the timelines for the task
and decide when the work will be ready for compilation
What I learned
From my group, I learned that for a group to perform well it is better to manage and
understand group processes well by having a group leader and lay strategies to follow. Secondly,
I learned that ICT staff handles confidential information about the organization and individuals.
These ethics help professional to make decisions to reach a required course of action
How I will handle the experience in future
In order to earn more marks and improve on our group

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 I will use a number of sentences at the beginning of a discussion that will help reduce
delays in task e.g. from my understanding this what I know is it true?
 I will Use humour to discourage talkative participants and use non-verbal communication
to include those who do not speak in the discussion.
 I will try to analyse what hinders my group from progressing to the next level.
 I will summarize our task to other members so that we focus on the main theme
Effects of group experience
Positive experience
From the activity, teamwork results in different experiences of both the individual and
group member in our group, I was able to interact freely with each other and take part in the
discussion. This enabled me to retain and learn more of the content presented in class. Teamwork
prepares individuals for a future career. For example, I read out the strategies to follow while
doing our assignment I was able to speak fluently in front of my group and reduce my passive
nature in class. This prepared me for future professionals so that being able to work together with
people of different characters and be able to handle such.
In our group, we had a leader whose responsibility according is to monitor, encourage
everyone to participate and encouraged interactions. This provided me an understanding of the
importance of a leader in a group discussion.
Negative experience
 Some members were telling more irrelevant stories this hindered our progress and as a
result, we delayed on our timeline.
 We had a problem on deciding the best idea. This delayed or progress

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 In our group, some people talked more making the discussion take longer than we
expected