Business Development: Individual Reflection on Aqua Carpatica Project

This individual reflection report analyzes a student's experience preparing and delivering a presentation on Aqua Carpatica. The report details the student's perspective on what aspects of the project went well, such as task segregation and mentor support, and what challenges were encountered, including conflicts in opinions and a lack of punctuality. The student reflects on their role as team leader, outlining contributions like establishing rules and dividing tasks. The report also acknowledges the contributions of other team members and the overall positive aspects of the team's performance despite various challenges. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of pre-analyzing future situations and developing preventive measures for similar projects.

INDIVIDUAL
REFLECTION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Individual reflection is a practice of expressing views and experiences of an individual. In
this project report, a reflection is developed about the presentation which is prepared on the topic
of aqua carpatica. In this project report, individual reflection account is prepared using the
presentation about the topic. Various experiences are expressed in this report such as what went
well, what doesn’t went well and contributions of all the group members (Posavac, 2015).
MAIN BODY
A presentation was developed by me and my team members on the topic of aqua
carpatica. During the time of preparation, there were various issues which faced by us due to
several conflicts such as different thought process, different emotional quotient and many more.
The overall quality of that presentation resultant to be good but there were still various aspects
which effected our presentation. According to me, the most influential aspect which was faced
by us was emotions. As there were several members involved in the presentation, emotional
quotient of every member was different (Stronge and Tucker, 2017).
My experience is categorised in four classes which is mentioned below in order to build
better understanding:
What went well - Aqua carpatica is a company which manufacturers and distributes
water bottles to various parts of the world. In order to analyse this company and its functioning it
is important to conduct a intense research. To effectively produce a presentation on aqua
carpatica, I decided to decide all the work into different activities and distributed among
members. This segregation of tasks was resultant as the most effective idea as it allows us to do
our own work without any conflicts and interference. Tasks which were allotted to us were
researching about finance of aqua carpatica, research about marketing and advertising activities,
investigation about history of this company and many more. Another aspect which went well
was will to put efforts. Every member of our group including me was so enthusiasts about this
presentation that we were willing to put our hundred percent efforts. This zeal and excitement
helped us to maintain peace in group even after various problems. Besides enthusiasm and
classification of activities, another aspect which went really well was support of mentors.
Members of my group are usually considered as most efficient students due to which every
mentor was ready to help us which further assisted us to gain expert information and solutions.
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Along with above positive aspects about our group presentation, the most important
aspect which went really well was the integrity of group members. Despite of inter relational
issues, the most effective aspects which I observed was the integrity of our group members. This
aspect can be better understandable by an example. During the time of our group presentation,
there were various team meetings in which was compulsory to be attended by all members.
During that period, a situation was raised in which few members were unable to attend the group
meeting but instead of providing false hope they came up with genuine reason with full integrity.
Things which doesn't went well - Analysing a company is a crucial task to perform but
by the way of segregation of tasks, this complex activity was carried out really well. The main
problem was raised when the period of research was over, and duration of using that information
in our presentation started. When it comes to executing our plans and shape all the researched
information into presentation, views and thoughts or every member were different. It is
important to have a common layout in the presentation, but due to variation in opinions and
choices even this task raised various issues and resultant overall work delayed. Negative aspects
about our presentation resolved around diversification in team members opinions, thoughts and
choices. During the period of presentation preparation, a situation arises where all team members
including me were told to prepare one slide. Every member tried their level best and came with
best of their work but due to lack of communication, those slides doesn’t had any co-ordination
between them. In my opinion, another aspect which doesn't went well was lack of sense of
punctuality. It is important to conduct various team meetings to effectively produce a group
presentation but due to no sense of punctuality, meetings resultants in bizarre conflicts (Vetter
and et. al., 2017).
My contribution - I was elected as a team leader for our team by a simple poll. In order
to provide our team a common goal and direction, I decided to pen down some common rules
which must be followed by all our team members which helped us to bring discipline. I pre
analysed personalities of members due to which there was a high possibility that conflicts will
occur, in order to avoid those issues I decided to classify all the activities into categories so that
every team member has a individual task to perform. In the presentation, my contribution was to
research about aqua carpatica company and its history which helped us to have a brief
understanding about our project.
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Team members contribution - Other members of my group also made their best efforts
to make sure that our presentation can match with the passing criteria. Main contributions of
team members were researching about all the aspects of aqua carpatica company. They also
agreed upon a best presentation layout and helped each other with their content. Due to a positive
image which my team members has, mentors also assisted us. Despite of lack of team spirit,
team members contributed a lot towards goal attainment.
CONCLUSION
By preparing the presentation, in my opinion it can be concluded that overall
performance of our team was good. Despite of various issues and conflicts, every team member
made their best of efforts. In order to ensure that these challenges are not faced by us in future it
is important to pre analyse the future situation and develop few preventive measures such as
saving some extra time to avoid delays and more.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Posavac, E. J., 2015. Program evaluation: Methods and case studies. Routledge.
Stronge, J. and Tucker, P., 2017. Handbook on Teacher Evaluation with CD-ROM. Routledge.
Vetter, T. and et. al., 2017. Evaluation of sources of uncertainty in projected hydrological
changes under climate change in 12 large-scale river basins. Climatic change. 141(3).
pp.419-433.
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