Evaluation and Reflection Assignment PDF

Running head: EVALUATION AND REFLECTION
Evaluation and Reflection
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

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One of the best ways to learn the lessons of life is through self-reflection. This is because
I believe that man learns best through the experiences that he passes through. One of the most
effective teachers that we get in life is our experiences. We learn best from the situations that we
pass through. Self-reflection also helps a lot in self-evaluation. In other words, it helps in finding
out the flaws and the strengths that we have in life. I have been able to find my strengths which I
will work upon with all my efforts so that I can really nurture them and use them for my
improvement. On the other hand, I have also been able to find out any flaws or errors that are
present in my personality. I will have to work on them to make sure that I can find ways of
improving on them. Getting a clear idea about the strengths and the weaknesses of my
personality will help me in my personal and my professional life as well. I will be able to work
on my drawbacks so that I do not fall under any negative impression of my boss or even my
colleagues (Gould and Taylor 2017).
I will be narrating one incident that happened in my work organization which helped me to get
an idea about my personal strengths and weaknesses. I will be using the Boud’s reflective model
to narrate this incident.

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Figure1: Boud’s Reflective Model
The experience was when there was a group project that was assigned to five of us at the
office. We all were really under a huge stress. This was a very challenging situation for us. This
was one good opportunity that would enable us to prove our potential. All of us were really
working very hard but one of the colleagues was falling back. I could see that he was much
tensed and unmindful. I talked to him and asked him to share his problem with me. Though he
was a bit reluctant in the beginning then he shared his story with me. He said that as he is a
nonnative English speaker, he is very unsure about his English speaking skill. He was afraid of
the fact that he could not speak English fluently in front of others. I consoled him and reflected
upon one of the experiences that I have passed through. I said that when my father shifted to the
posh regions of UK and I took admission in one of the Posh UK schools, I was really finding it

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very difficult to deal with the city life and the students who used to read in that school. I was
often the victim of bullying. I was so frustrated at a time, that I wanted to quit and I thought of
becoming a dropout. However, then I thought that I cannot give up so easily. I will have to make
my place within these difficulties. So, I started working very hard and concentrated on my
studies I also observed the accents of the city people and observed their ways of life. Slowly and
gradually I could cope up with the city lifestyle and I also got very good grades at my school. I
could also master the accents of that region. So, I could do this only through practice and
determination. I gave my own example and tried to inspire my colleague. I asked him to practice
speaking in English and also follow the English channels and read newspapers. Constant practice
will surely help me in developing his weak English speaking skills. He was really inspired by
this and he followed whatever I said and gradually he improved in his English speaking skills.
He thanked me for the inspiration that I gave.
It was from here that I learned about my aspect of inspiring others. In future, I will be
nurturing this aspect and will use it for supporting my colleagues and my teammates as well. The
other thing that learned was that I am very loyal and dedicated towards the work that I undertake.
This experience happened when I was assigned as the team leader of a group with 4 members.
This was really a very challenging situation for me and I made sure that I make all my teammates
be accountable for their actions. One of them had made a mistake in his work and was afraid to
accept it. He was thinking that perhaps he would be sued by the senior management if they found
that he had done such a severe mistake in his work. However, I could not let this happen as I
always abide by the trait of accountability. So, I cannot let my team member escape from being
accountable for his own actions. I made sure that He goes to the management and accepts his
fault. I also encouraged him saying that if he does this, it will increase his value in the eyes of the

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management. They will know that he is honest and is accountable for his own actions. He finally
went to the management and accepted his fault and also agreed to work hard in order to
overcome it. The management was very happy with his accountability and his honesty. So, they
gave him another chance to rectify his mistakes and also added some credit points to my work as
a team lead as I was successful in inculcating the accountability among my teammates. I have
concluded that this is one my positive points that will surely help me a lot in the long run. So, I
will be working on it in order to develop it further. My action in the upcoming days will be to
make sure that I am being accountable for all my actions and I also built the same this same
feature among my team members as well. This will help me to be responsible down the years and
will surely be very helpful for my professional and my personal lives as well. The other thing
that I learned from the PPDI is that one of my biggest positive strengths is my creative and
innovative nature. The event that happened was at my office. There was a programme being
conducted called talent hunt, where all the teams had to make some of the other creative things
with their creative mindset. I was the leader of such a team and my teammates were confused
and puzzled and did not know what they would make for the contest. So, I assured them and I
said that we would make something creative. So, I told them that we would make something out
of the wastes. So, I named the project as Best out of Waste. We gathered all types of wastes
papers. There were newspapers, marvel papers, color papers, box cutting and many other such
waste materials. We cut them into pieces and then made a collage out of this. The idea was really
very simple. We did not use any costly materials like the other teams. There were no sparkles,
ornaments or jewelry. There were only simple color papers. We made a beautiful collage by
cutting those papers into very small pieces and then sticking them on a board. Apart from this, I
also suggested them the idea of the plantation. We took some seeds, planted them in a pot and

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gave the necessary amount of water and sunlight that it needed for growing. It soon germinated
into a nice, fresh plant. We displayed our presentations at the contest and backed the first prize.
This was mainly because of the senior management of our creation and innovation. None of the
teams had shown such a creation or innovation. I concluded from this event that I am really
having a very creative bent of mind and I will be using this aspect even in future so that I can
prosper in my professional field.
I got this notion from all these experiences that I will have to work further on my positive
aspects and nurture them. Being accountable for my own actions will always help me to keep a
good notion in the eyes of my superiors. I will also be very inspirations towards all my
colleagues and my followers. I know that in order to be a good leader I will have to inculcate all
my good qualities within my followers. I will teach them that they must be accountable and
responsible for their own achievements and also for their own mistakes. I will also try to develop
these creative aspects within them so that they can prosper in the long run.
This knowledge that I have got from the PPDI will help me in nurturing the good aspects
of my personality. I will make sure that I can use all these qualities for developing myself into a
better person with each passing day. My followers will always be seeing me as their role model.
So, they will always follow their leader as their role model. I will be inspiring them and
supporting them throughout.