Teamwork Reflection

This reflection explores the author's experience with teamwork and the application of Belbin team roles. It discusses the author's role in the team, personal entrepreneurial characteristics, and areas for improvement. The reflection also touches on ethical issues, peer evaluation, and self-evaluation. References and resources are provided for further reading.

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TEAMWORK REFLECTION
STUDENT NAME:
STUDENT ID:
AUTHORS NOTE:

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Introduction:
Belbin team roles allows to identify specific roles that a person can take in a team. From the
Belbin Team Roles, I have found out that every team members plays a specific role in regards to
complete work in a qualitative manner. In nine team roles, every team member might require to
apply them in regards to give their best in a specific project (Blackburn, 2016). Therefore, in this
study, I have focused on analyzing the way each member of my group presents a specific role of
the Belbin team roles.
The Belbin team role test shows that I am resource investigator, coordinator and company
worker with respective score of 14, 13 and 11 which means I am quite effectively researches on
required resources, co-ordinate with others and focus on the given task to improve organizational
efficiency. It also makes me a good team worker and shows that is I am the person who can
manage a team well. In a team, the roles explained as per Belbin team roles are implementer,
resource investigator, plant, monitor, shaper, coordinator, completer or finisher are applied by
different team members. I think personal entrepreneurial characteristics include skills and
practices which are required to handle every business and project situations. From the
entrepreneurial skill test, I have identified that I am opportunity seeking and information seeking
person who is having self confidence to correct any errors made and take risks to make any
venture successful. From this, I have learned that being creative, motivated passionate,
optimistic, focused, resourceful and focused help an individual to complete allocated tasks with
required productivity and quality. The introduction of personal entrepreneurial characteristics
provides set of skills and talents that are required to practice for increasing ability to lead,
motivate, direct and increase the performance of the team members in an entrepreneurship
venture (Fortunato & Alter, 2015).

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My expectation was my team members will give their best and accomplished their tasks within
time and anticipated quality. I think to a certain extent my team members are able to meet the
required project quality and delivered within the time allocated. But, I believe that there are skills
and practices that need to input for increasing communication, coordination and stability within
the team to make a quality group work in a venture which I am having as I am found to be an
organizer in a team. The information provided describes my skills as I am leadership, directing,
passionate, motivated, quick learner, problem solver and creative, in this regards the information
relates to my skills that mean I am on a correct path of developing myself. I think there are few
learning areas that I need to develop myself which is necessary for entrepreneurship venture such
as creativity, interpersonal skills, selection of accurate leadership style for my team members. I
have completed a project presentation with my four colleagues. I have provided specific
responsibilities to them for gathering information over their specific allocated areas. However,
one of my teammates unable to gather information within the time which led me to support and
help him out to provide quality information within the time. I have directed speeches of the team
which they have delivered promptly to the audience ion the presentation. Sekliuckiene and
Kisielius, (2015) has stated that books and journals are the instruments that provide in-depth
knowledge and learning towards a specific subject area. The information gathered from these
instruments introduced for better application of skills and practice relevant styles of leadership
for entrepreneurship venture. Dimova & Pela, (2018) argued that the introduction of vast
knowledge about a specific learning area could create confusion which creates a barrier to
understand the basic concepts. The introduction of different sourced instruments within books
and journals might provide learning over the subject area with different concerns creating a
barrier to understand and apply them in the workplace. Nabi et al., (2018) agreed that books and

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journal sources are instruments that make better understanding to apply them in the practical
world. My information seeking quality and my resource investigator reply apply in this context
to help my team out of any difficult situation. In contrast of increasing my team effectiveness, I
would have recruited some experienced peoples in the team to have a better flow of working
with proper guidance, which might have increased performance of productivity of my team
members.
The most important ethical issue which is commonly faced by ventures is technology and
privacy, an increase in usage and development of technologies the social media has become a
vital part of risking privacy information leaked in public (Kaabi & Sandhu, 2018). I believe that
a small negative disclosure from a corporate employee about the workplace, product
performance, production process and comments on product experiences has affected corporate
privacy. The ethical and social responsibility also includes health and safety and employees
behavioral approaches in regards to introducing proper coordination within the team members
(Sousa, 2018). I am averagely satisfied with the ethical and social responsibility foundation for
the enterprise at the end. The regulations, standards and workplace plays a vital role in creating
a workplace culture and environment, although it is tough to handle employee mindset,
behavioral approach, thought process, perception and beliefs which might create several issues
for the organization. I believe in equality and providing the opportunity to share and grow for my
employees, the ethical consideration of creating a positive work culture relates to this value of
mine. My belief is that introducing skills and agendas within the team members is a reliable
approach to make the growth of the venture all along. I think this value correlates with the ethical
and social values, as at the end the agenda of this foundation to develop employees and
organization both together. Team creation is one of the enthusiastic and tough jobs as it is

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necessary to put the right person at the right time for the right person and to provide them with a
right course of responsibilities (Dimova & Pela, 2018).
I have faced divergence while allocating tasks to my team members, as I saw some of my team
members have better skills to handle specific responsibility, in this regards I have swapped the
roles for better results. The team divergent increase coordination and share of information, which
has the potentiality to increase information on every field developing expertise of the team
members while working. The usefulness of peer evaluation includes the application of successful
workplace practices introduced by other entrepreneurs, which helps team members to make
quick learning about certain skills and working areas. I think peer evaluation helps to understand
the working practices, decision making and their effects to reduce error making possibilities
while indulged in a specific work. In addition, the self-evaluation is another option which helps
an individual to learn ethical principles, code of conduct and employability values by their own
knowledge, learning and information gathered from different sources (Storey, 2016). I believe
that self-evaluation pouts a better understanding of the concepts of entrepreneurship its
principles, code of conducts and ethical considerations as it is more practical in nature. In
compare to self-evaluation, peer evaluation is theoretical in nature, which provides an overall
conception of the entrepreneurship regulations principle and practices. Thus, I support the self-
evaluation strategy to make learn to my team about the working process and skills that could
increase their effectiveness.

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Reference
Blackburn, R. A. (2016). Government, SMEs and entrepreneurship development: Policy,
practice and challenges. Routledge.
Dimova, R., & Pela, K. (2018). Entrepreneurship: structural transformation, skills and
constraints. Small Business Economics, 51(1), 203-220.
Fortunato, M.W. & Alter, T., 2015. Community entrepreneurship development: an
introduction. Community Development, 46(5), pp.444-455.
Kaabi, K. A., & Sandhu, M. (2018). The role of workforce skills development for
entrepreneurship: an Emiratisation perspective. International Journal of Business
Excellence, 14(1), 101-120.
Nabi, G., Walmsley, A., Liñán, F., Akhtar, I., & Neame, C. (2018). Does entrepreneurship
education in the first year of higher education develop entrepreneurial intentions? The role of
learning and inspiration. Studies in Higher Education, 43(3), 452-467.
Sekliuckiene, J. & Kisielius, E., 2015. Development of social entrepreneurship initiatives: a
theoretical framework. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 213, pp.1015-1019
Sousa, M. (2018). Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Higher Education Courses for Teams
Leaders. Administrative Sciences, 8(2), 18.
Storey, D. J. (2016). Entrepreneurship and new firm. Routledge.

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Appendix:
1. Belbin Team role test

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2. Entrepreneurial characteristics tool: