Reflective Journal: Exploring Teamwork and Presentation Skills

This reflective journal documents a student's experience in a group presentation, utilizing a reflective model to analyze their role as a team leader and the skills they developed. The journal covers various aspects of the presentation, including planning, communication, teamwork, and audience engagement. The student reflects on their feelings, evaluates the experience, and analyzes the impact of the presentation on their personal and professional growth. The conclusion highlights the importance of teamwork, enthusiasm, and clear communication in effective presentations, followed by an action plan for continuous improvement, focusing on presentation skills, audience engagement, and teamwork. The journal emphasizes the value of reflective practice in enhancing skills and achieving goals.

Reflective Journal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Reflection with the use of model...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals:...............................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is defined as the process of engaging the self in critical, exploratory,
iterative, etc. in order to learn form own experience. Reflective writing is found to be an
analytical practice in which it is important for a writer to describe real or imaginary event
with a personal reflection (Donyaie and Afshar, 2019). This report will cover some important
topics regarding the group presentation. It uses a reflective model that every individual
should explain their experience in an effective way.
MAIN BODY
Reflection with the use of model
Description
The class was divided into a team and given the task of group presentation (Bassot,
2020). I identify some points which should be developed in a group presentation that include
presentation moderator, understanding the audience, the presentation purpose (Adeani,
Febriani and Syafryadin, 2020). I was became a team leader and discuss with my team
members for the purpose of activities and responsibility of each person.
Feeling
I discussed with my group members related to their rules and responsibility. At that
time, I developed communication skills (Choi, Tian and Stumph, 2022). When I am in
college that time my team member give a presentation, they understand he communication
skill which is necessary for a presentation. I was clear concise and communicated goals and I
felt that it should be communicate with my team member.
Evaluation
In the case of presentations where I decided to be a team leader, it becomes a very
toughest job for me (Murillo-Llorente and et.al., 2021). I found that my overall experience
was nice. During the conversation with my team members, I developed many skills such as
communication, critical analysis, time management, presentation and many more skills.
Analysis

I analysed from my experienced that a presentation plays a very important role in my
personal and professional life. As a leader, it is very important to lead a team and for that
purpose, leader should very enthusiastic, effective tone and body language.
Conclusion
I concluded after my analysis presented a team work is a very good way to convince
the audience in an effective way. Every individual should improve their skills for presentation
because it gives confidence and enthusiasm (Ahmed and Zaky, 2021).
Action Plan
After conclusion, I make an action plan for the effective presentation in order to
improve. With action, plan individual achieve their goal. So there is an action that mentions
below.
Skills Why it choose? How to improve? How to measure?
Presentation
skills
Presentation used in
professional life. It is
important for the student as
well as an employee.
Use a visual aid for
effective presentation.
Ask questions to
measure the
effectiveness.
Focused on the
audience
It is very important because
an effective presentation is
made when it focused on its
audience.
It is necessary to be in
mind every time that
their audience listens
to a presentation
carefully.
Audience direct eye
contact with the
presentation.
Ability to keep
thing simple
The audience easily can
understand the presentation
when it is simple.
Use simple language
in the presentation.
Are they raising their
hands for asking a
question?
Teamwork Teamwork is necessary for
achieving the goal.
More engagement of
the people improves
their teamwork.
They appear to look
interested in what the
presentation says.

CONCLUSION
As per the discussion, I concluded that the group presentation is necessary to achieve
a goal. For improving the group presentation use good teamwork, enthusiasm and honesty,
and words simple.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Ahmed, R. and Zaky, R., 2021. Reflective journal writing as a tool for student engagement in
the undergraduate classroom: An intersectional analysis of experiential
learning. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021(167), pp.33-41.
Bassot, B., 2020. The reflective journal. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Choi, S., Tian, X. and Stumph, C., 2022. Learning organizational behaviors and leadership
through reflective journal writing. The International Journal of Management
Education, 20(2), p.100612.
Donyaie, S. and Afshar, H.S., 2019. EFL Teachers' Reflective Journal Writing: Barriers and
Boosters. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 7(3), pp.71-90.
Murillo-Llorente, M.T., and et.al., 2021. Using the Reflective Journal to Improve Practical
Skills Integrating Affective and Self-Critical Aspects in Impoverished International
Environments. A Pilot Test. International Journal of Environmental Research and
Public Health, 18(16), p.8876.
Adeani, I.S., Febriani, R.B. and Syafryadin, S., 2020. USING GIBBS’REFLECTIVE
CYCLE IN MAKING REFLECTIONS OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. Indonesian
EFL Journal, 6(2), pp.139-148.