Reflections on the Group Experience during the Simulation

Running Head: REFLECTION REPORT
Reflections on the Group Experience during the Simulation
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Introduction
The reflection report is a documentation of personal or professional experience from
the perspective of author. The reflecting report is one of the most crucial tools for personal
and professional improvement, which allows the individual to assess his or her own gap in
performance and to improve the efficiency though strategic self development plan
(Rickabaugh 2012, 12-15). Along with personal and professional improvement it also helps
to enhance the writing skill as well as the ability to explain an event effectively. Reflection
on team work enables the author to make his or her team performance more comprehensive
and productive. Both leader and the team members can utilise the reflection report tool to
improve the quality of team work.
In this reflection report, I will discuss about my own experience while working in a
team in a business simulation activity. At the initial phase I will discuss the description of my
experience and then I will examine and interpret the experience through various leadership
and team management theories. Finally, the I will discuss how these experiences and their
interpretations and evaluation will help me in my future personal and professional work to
develop more integrated team work, coordination and productivity. The purpose of this report
is to map the progress and changes in my thought process on team work and leadership
through the experience of teamwork.
Description of events and situation
Recently, I have worked with a group on a business simulation project though which
I have experienced several unexpected situations and complications as well as I have learned
new lesson. Before discussing about the experience I am providing a brief description of the
situational background. In the business simulation group worked I mentioned earlier the

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name of our team was STREET CAT. The team has 5 members including 1 team leader. I
was chosen to be the leader of the team. All the members of the team had profound
knowledge about business management organisational operation, Marketing, production,
sales and supply chain operation. Therefore, throughout the execution of team worked I
learned many practical implementation strategy of business management from my team
mates.
After the initiation of the simulation, I have realised that some essential changes are
needed in the marketing strategy. As per my concern, I approached to the other team
members for this issue. However, 3 of them were not agreed with opinion. Another team
member preferred not to take a side. As a team leader, it was my responsibility to explain my
concerns to the team members. However, I felt that they are completely rigid about their
choice what they have made. I though, that being a team leader I cannot prioritise the
decision of the majority while leave the organisation strategy as non-productive as it was.
Therefore, I forcefully incorporate new marketing strategy and I promised that if the strategy
would fail, I would be the only one who will responsible for that failure.
After generation of second business report, it was observed that the declining rate of
the Return on Investment was normalised effectively. At the same time, after my strict
decision all the team members were disappointed about the choices that I had made. When I
called another meeting for the discussion of next strategic improvement, the 2 of the team
members said that the profit margin was still not as recovered as I promised. I tried to make
them realise that my aim was not to improve the profit margin; rather I was trying to reduce
the declination rate of the return on investment. In the next phase of business simulation, I
faced similar non-cooperation and resistance from the two team members. However, at the
end of the simulation our team was scored the highest among the other 6 teams of the
business simulation.