Teamwork, Innovation, and Personal Development: A Reflective Journal

Personal Reflective Journal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Teamwork ..................................................................................................................................3
Belbin's Theory: .........................................................................................................................4
Tuckman's team building theory.................................................................................................5
John Adair Action centred leadership.........................................................................................5
Maslow's hierarchy theory of team building...............................................................................6
Theory X and Theory Y..............................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Innovation and Creativity............................................................................................................6
Diffusion of innovation...............................................................................................................6
7 sources of innovation ..............................................................................................................7
Creative thinking techniques.......................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
Personal development plan.......................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Team building, innovation and development of soft skills in a person are important
aspects while continuing with work. Team refers to a number of people in an organisation
coming together to work towards a particular goal or objective. In the following report
discussions are made on all the important theories used by an individual while acting as a team
member as well as while acting leader of a team (Roldán-Merino and et. al., 2019). Innovation
and creativity is necessary to fulfil all the roles and responsibilities of a team leader which are
discussed along with various theories. Innovation refers to bringing in new ideas in business
which might include some fulfilment of some unidentified needs of consumers. Innovation are
brought in forms of new products or services, improvement of already existing product or
services or even new methods for generation of those products and services can be included in
innovation. There are a number of type of innovation such as diffusion of innovation, disruptive
innovation, sources of innovation etc. which have been effectively discussed in this following
report. All these theories are presented in a form of reflection of a sales person who turned into a
team leader after 5 years of experience in his field. The last part of report consists of a plan to
develop various soft skills in an individual. Personal development plan is developed by any
individual to assure the targets they will be working for in coming time. Time is considered to be
an important aspect of personal development plan. Along with deciding the skills to be
developed ways in which they can be developed, benefits from skills to individual and the time
required to develop those skills are necessary to be mentioned in this plan.
TASK 1
Teamwork
Teamwork refers to collective efforts which are taken by a group of people in order to
achieve a common objective or a task in an efficient manner. This concept applies on a team
which includes various individuals who are interdependent and working towards a similar
objective (Dinh and et. al., 2020).
I have worked as a salesman for 5 years after which I was promoted to lead a team. I has
experiences of various theories related to a team from both the sides which include being a part
of team as well as managing a team as a team leader. There were a number of theories which
were applicable while my journey as team leader and salesman which are mentioned below:

Belbin's Theory:
Belbin's theory of team roles assumes that there are particular tendency and behaviour of
certain people. A common cluster of behaviour is developed and divided into various parts in this
theory which was used by the team leader who managed our team while I was working as a
salesman for 5 years. Below mentioned are various roles which are included in the following
theory: Resource investigator is an individual in the organisation who is extrovert and brings in
various opportunities for the team through developing contacts. Team worker is one who can easily work with versatility and easily adapt to all the
members in a team. They are diplomatic and co-operative. Co-ordinator is that person in the team who focuses on the objectives towards which the
team is working. They are confident and mature but can however be manipulative a
number of times. Plant is a resourceful person who is creative and have a creative mind. Monitor Evaluator is a person who who is impartial in making judgements and has a
strategic eye for decisions (Tuomela and Bonnevier-Tuomela, 2020). Specialist is the person who has in depth knowledge of the areas in which team is
working. They are usually overloaded with information. Shapers are the dynamic people in a team who are thriving through pressure in order to
overcome barriers in path of team. Implementer are people in team developing strategies and controlling the effects of
those strategies on the team.
 Complete finisher are those people in a team who works on errors of others in order to
keep a check on quality of work delivered by team.
I have been appointed the roles of a shaper, implementer, co-ordinator and team worker
based on my qualities and skills. This theory have effectively helped me to understand the roles I
play in various teams and successfully comply by my role.
Tuckman's team building theory
This theory was developed in 1965 by Bruce Tuckman which consists of five stages
through which a team has to go through including forming, storming, norming, performing and
adjourning which are described below: