Self-Reflection on Team Work and Leadership in Healthcare

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Introduction
This is a critical reflection essay on personal experiences while working with a team. The
reflection will focus on the leadership roles/skills. The essay will demonstrate an understanding
of the leadership theories and be able to highlight them. The reflection will also explain how
leadership or leadership skills influences/impacts on the professional standards and the
legislation so as to ensure that the patient receives patient-centered care. The role in the team will
be stipulated by the Belbin personality scale. It will demonstrate how these experiences relates to
my Berlin personality profile and also in developing my professional practice and patient care
within the professional legislation and standards. I will use Gibb’s reflection cycle (1988) to
reflect on the above.
Description
My role in the team as stipulated by the Berlin personality scale was (Berlin, Carlström
and Sandberg, 2012); team-worker and plant. Therefore, my roles as a team-worker were to be
co-operative, be diplomatic and perceptive. I was also supposed to avert frictions that arise when
working together. As a plant, I was expected to be creative, be a free thinker, be imaginative, be
able to come up with ideas and solve problems (Berlin, Carlström and Sandberg, 2012).
The team activity was building a trailer using the available materials as a group. The
number of trailers to be built depended on the number of students in a group. We were supposed
to build the trailers without the designers as the lecturer left with the designers. Some other
groups waited for the designers to instruct them but in our group, we sat next to the MTA kit and
started on the construction. The most unfortunate thing that happened was that our group did
split into three. The group work turned into individualized work as no one cared what the other
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person was doing. My team had no leader to influence the other to complete the task. The group
work lacked cooperation, had ineffective communication, and it lacked interest to be
guided/directed. This combination translated to tasks not being completed. My group (team) had
three incomplete trailer models.
Feeling
I felt that the group did not portray teamwork at all. Two, no leader emerged in the group.
Lastly, we failed to complete the task which translates to a fail, this made me feel bad. The group
got divided into three. There was no cooperation among the team players. There was no leader to
influence the others to complete the task successfully. The team lacked effective communication.
In addition to this we did not follow the instructions or rather we did not consult the designer on
how to construct the trailers. We made three incomplete trailers which are a fail in the subject.
Seeing the problems that had risen I should have boldly stepped up and come up with solutions.
Evaluation
The bad experiences while working as a group/team were as follows; one, lack of
cooperation which leads to the division in the group, rather than working together the group
broke into three, each group made their own trailer. Two, there was lack of effective
communication in the group, this destroyed the group work even more. Three, the group/team
lacked a good leader. There was no one to lead, direct, or instruct. Four, the end result was three
unfinished trailers. This means a failure in the unit/subject. The only good experience from all
this was being able to start a project and make something out of the materials given even though
it was not complete. The roles that the Berlin prolife bestoned on me were accurate although I
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did not act accordingly. I should have boldly spoken up and solved the issues that did arise. In
future I know better, I will act better.
Analysis
The roles bestowed on me by the berlin’s personality scale showed that I was a team
player and a leader. The berlin personality profile has an efficacy of over 90%, so this were my
right roles. I should have boldly taken the role of the leader to influence/lead the rest to the
attainment of the goal. As stipulated by National Health services (NHS) and the Health and Care
Professional Counsil (HCPC), (2012), stipulates that in health care provision, leadership is
shared among the professionals. There is an aspect of shared responsibility among the health care
providers. As a team leader, I should have ensured that there were effective communication and
cooperation in the team. I should also have come up with solutions to the problems we faced as a
group considering that Berlin scale termed as a plant.
Action plan.
The goal is to develop leadership skills, improve on communication skills and be a team
player. A leader is a person who can influence others in the attainment of a goal (Stogdil, 2017).
The above clearly showed that I lacked leadership skills and I was not a team player. Me and
other health care providers needs lessons on leadership skills that is; leading, instructing,
coordinating, problems solving and cooperating with others (Bass, 2009). Secondly, I should be
taught on effective communication and its importances. I also need to attain the qualities of a
team player; be cooperative, work together and be helpful. This is important as in future when I
encounter such situations, I will be able to tackle them more effectively. I will be able to lead,
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