Managing People: Written Reflection

Managing People-
Written Reflection

INTRODUCTION
This report is a written reflection of an individual. The person in this report have worked
in a team and is now sharing experience of team development and management skills through a
written reflection (Woodcock, 2017). This reflection is providing a members an opportunity to
express their feeling, thoughts and also sharing their experience while working.
Reflection
The team which I was a part of consisted of 8 members. All of us were from totally
different background and cultures. Everyone of us had a different mother-tongue. However,
English was only common language which we used to communicate within team. Although most
of members wanted to communicate in their own respective language but it was not an ideal
option. I used to conduct meeting for everyone in team. The aim of conducting these meetings
were, making them aware about goals and objectives of organisation, we also discussed about
various various plans and strategies in order to fulfil those objectives. Tasks were then
distributed among everyone in team. I paid special attention towards any query or difficulty
arising in work of any team member. I was pretty confident about the work of team and I knew
they will be able to accomplish all the tasks allotted to them within given time frame. I had to put
in extra efforts in order to look involved with every member in my team. We took out rime and
started to talk about things other than work. We talked about our family, friends and memories.
This session worked as an ice breaking sessions between all the employees. There is a necessity
to have informal relationships between team members so that they can openly discuss all the
issues and problems arising during work (Yi, 2016). Discussions were used to be held on a
number of topics including trust, communication, leadership, conflicts, workload, work timing
etc. While these sessions I came to know about a number of other options or programmes which
can be created in order to fulfil organisational goals and objectives. However interacting in their
native language was always a issue for members of team. they found it difficult to express their
feelings in English. This raised many issues an d conflicts in team. Later on conflict in their
understanding and solutions to various problems started arising. This was an organisational
problem which required steps to be taken urgently. No team members were ready to cooperate
with each other. This led to dissatisfaction among the employees in team. It was duty of
professor to create and develop teams but then I decided to take over work and manage my team