Managing Enterprises in the 21st Century: A Reflective Report

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Managing Enterprise in 21st Century
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference List..................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The entire study will be based into personal reflection as by delivering personal reflection it will
be possible for any individual to further describe any form of incident. Through the help of
adequate as well as effective personal reflection, it will be possible for any individual personal to
deliver their key attributes in different forms of skills at certain extension. Personal reflection is
also quite useful at outlining personal strengths as well as weakness form a specified incident. In
the exact study, I will reflect on my learning from a specific incident, which is a group task.
Moreover, it is quite evidenced that there are several different types of methods as well as
theories that can be used for reflecting personal experience. In the exact study, I will use the
reflection cycle of Gibbs in order to reflect the personal findings as well as different skills that I
learned during the entire experience.
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Main body
From a range of different reflective methods, I choose the Gibbs reflection cycle since it is one of
the most easy as well as effective model that helped me towards reflecting my personal
experience regarding the group activity at certain extension. The reflective cycle of Gibbs is
divided further into six different steps, which are description, findings, evaluation, analysis, and
conclusion and action plan. All of these steps are adequately helpful; towards reflecting the
overview of a personal incident. My reflection on the group activity that has been conducted at
PIGG Plc has been described below using the reflective cycle of Gibbs.
Description- At the specific section of entire Gibbs reflective cycle, I am going to reflect on my
personal experience while thriving at the particular situation at certain extension. At the weekly
team meeting at the organisation PIGG PLC, the entire meeting as well as project was being
constructed in order to create a completely new database. The database is needed to be
constructed in such a way that can further be used for the information system from the
perspective of the management team at certain extension (Brock et al., 2017). Power point
presentation has been used for conducting the group presentation at certain extension. Moreover,
I, all of my colleagues as well as our entire management department took active participation at
the group activity in order to create the overall database. At the time, different employees have
been asked to come up on and represent their ideas. I have also come up with adequate idea for
solving some of the raised confliction among the managerial job role at certain extension.
At the initial phase, I thought that the overall presentation was going to last for a week or so
since there are so many employees as well as managerial heads. However, I was quite shocked to
observe the fact that the entire presentation lasts only for one day and most of the employees
took lesser time for their presentation that I had been previously anticipated. In addition to that,
since I had to reflect on my previously made presentation, I need to conduct several practice
seasons so that I can reflect as well as represent my entire presentation regarding managerial
database at certain extension (Travis, 2017). Therefore, I needed to rely into some acting skill
that helped me thoroughly at representing my power point presentation. I needed to prepare
different type of figures, tables as well as graphs in order to represent my initial findings though
the power point presentation. While starting the group presentation, I did not have any personal
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experience regarding how to make power point presentation extensively. However, after starting
to make the presentation, I have got several indications regarding how to make effective as well
as efficient presentation while thriving at the exact situation (Lippman et al., 2015).
I had made several questions that clearly involve collection of data for conducting the group
presentation in a successful manner. In addition to that, I had also observed at the time of my
entire presentation regarding the construction phase of the database for managerial purpose,
some of my colleagues as well as my managers asked me some questions. I think I am able to
provide adequate answers to all of these questions. At that time, I have also realised a lot of
different things that took place at the time of providing presentation (Anthony and Garner, 2016).
I had realised that I was not able to represent my feelings in an adequate way as some of my
other team members as well as other employees were able to reflect on their findings in a more
adequate as well as effective manner. Moreover, I have also found that my entire reflection as
well as power point representations was a disaster that cannot be mitigating by any simple mean.
Since I had faced many different good presentations at the time, I felt that my entire power point
presentation was a disaster (Brink and Costigan, 2015). While conducting my power point
presentation, I had tried extensively to incorporate every other finding so that I can show off the
fact that I had made several research on the given subjective.
Feelings- At the initial phase of the entire presentation when I as well as my other colleagues
was asked to take active part at a managerial presentation for making a separate database in order
to conduct managerial jobs, I was quite confident. In addition to that, I was a lot excited as well
since that was my initial time to represent my findings regarding making managerial database.
However, at the time of giving the presentation, I found that I was feeling a bit nervous (Quieng
et al., 2015).
I felt nervousness after seeing the representation power of my other colleagues as well as other
managers and team members. Most of them had previous idea regarding how to represent a
power point presentation. Therefore, I had observed that they were quite confident regarding
providing power point presentation. Their good communication as well as interpersonal skill had
made me nervous as I thought that I did not have exact communication and interpersonal skill as
them. I made my voice mumble and my other team members, colleagues as well as manager
were able to see my dropped confident level. Even at the time, I did not have any clear idea or
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integration regarding how to solve and stop that nervousness. At some moment, I did not have
even a clear idea regarding what I was doing at the time and my superior who was in charge of
the presentation function had noticed that. She had asked me some question but I did not notice
that due to m y lack of confidence as well as nervousness at certain extension.
My superior has made me feel very uncomfortable, as I was unable to answer her question. She
made me realise the fact that I was not ready for giving the presentation as I was not ready with
my acting skill despite the fact that my research and other findings regarding the subjective was
quite adequate. At the time when I was not able to represent my findings in the way I wanted, I
thought that it was due to my bad communication, social interaction as well as my
interpersonal skills at certain extension. I wanted to impress every other employee including my
superiors, which is why I put greater attention towards the presentation findings while not
improving my entire acting skill (Okun et al., 2016). At the time, I personally felt that acting
skills are quite important towards representing a power point presentation in front of other
people. However, I had found out that I was very calm as of my body language despite the fact
that I was feeling very nervous at the time of proving the group presentation. My writing as well
as researching skills is also needed to be moved up subsequently for providing power pointy
presentation in flawless manner.
Evaluation- While evaluating the entire situation, I had found that several things good pretty
well and some of the tings does not go as smoothly as I had been anticipated previously. As an
instance, I think I was quite good as well as effective towards collecting adequate data as well as
information for completing the power point presentation. It shows that I have adequate as well as
efficient planning; writing as well as researching skill that might also helped me towards in
future context for being more effective at my professional field. This can be described as the
only incident that goes well at the exact power point presentation. The researching as well as
documentation of the power point presentation regarding the database for managerial activity
goes well as I had adequate researching and writing skill from the beginning of my professional
journey at certain extension (Smith et al., 2018).
However, despite the fact that I was adequately ready with my documentation regarding the
power point presentation, I felt that the presentation part did not go as well or smoothly as I had
been previously anticipated at certain extension. I was not able to represent my findings well. I
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also failed at describing some of my findings that was being represented in graphs and charts.
Moreover, at some point I did not have much idea regarding what I was saying and my superiors
has told me to stop the presentation as I was not backtracking my findings at all, leading towards
bad representation. Moreover, after several days of that presentation incident, my superior has
told me to improve some of my aspects so that I can further improve my entire presentation skill
at certain extension. In addition to that, I have also observed that I have made several mistakes at
the time of providing presentation. I skipped some of the parts that needed broad discussion.
However, in future context I personally think that I can mitigate such limitation since my
superior had told me how to give power point representation. She told me not to write up
extensive amount of information at the slide since it can confuse me at the time of giving
presentation (Parlamis and Monnot, 2019). In addition to that, she also told me to not think much
and keep my clam before presentation since not keeping clam might also lead towards disastrous
representation of my key findings.
Moreover, I can also evaluate that I needed to increase my personal perception at power point
related skills, as I do not have much knowledge regarding some key attributes of power point
representation.
Analysis- I have learned from the experienced that I have adequate researching, planning as
well as writing skill and I did not need to work much for strengthening these skills. However, my
self-confidence level is needed to go up even further as due to the lack of self-confidence I failed
at representing the power point presentation. In addition to that, I think that I needed to boost up
my personal communication skill as well as interpersonal skill so that I can make better
communication in future context. Moreover, I can also analyse that my acting skills are needed
to be developed also for my professional career (Notaras et al., 2018).
Conclusion- From the entire incident, I think that I can easily point out several positive as well
as negative things. I failed at representing my findings despite the fact that I was getting ready
for the actual presentation. In future, I think I needed to improve my communication as well as
interpersonal and acting related skills so that I can handle similar situations in future context.
Action plan- In order to improve my communication skill, I am willing to take on several classes
both online as well as offline. Moreover, I am willing to engage myself with the CSR activities
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of our organisation so that I can improve my interpersonal skill. In addition to that, I will also
practice much and take on some online classes for improving the acting skill at certain extension.
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Conclusion
From analysing the entire study, it can be concluded that Gibbs reflective cycle in an effective
tool towards describing and analysing a previously held incident at certain extension. Moreover,
it can also easily derived that Gibbs reflective cycle is quite effective as well as efficient towards
outlining key strengths as well as weakness of an individual. As an instance, while applying the
reflective model, I found that I needed to improve my interpersonal, communication and acting
skills for making professional development at certain extension. Moreover, it can also conclude
that I also needed to improve my power point presentation skill for being effective as an
employee.
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