Reflective Analysis: Group Work Experience and Skill Development

This assignment is a reflective analysis of a student's experience in a group work setting. The student discusses the differences between group work and teamwork, highlighting the importance of shared responsibility and equal rights among group members. The reflection covers the benefits of diverse skills within a group, the assignment of roles based on individual strengths (communication, research, report writing, and editing), and the challenges encountered, such as time management and decision-making processes. The student identifies strengths like trust and unity, as well as weaknesses, emphasizing the need for improved communication and time management skills. The assignment concludes with insights on the necessity of personal development, leadership, and the collective effort required for successful group outcomes, emphasizing the importance of each member's contribution. The student also shares the lessons learned regarding management skills and group formation.

Reflection on Group Work

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Reflection on Group Work
Recently I worked in a group-work where I realized that group-work is the
best way to achieve targets in fast manner. My experience says, when you work in
a group, then you can get different innovative idea from different group members.
When I worked in that group, then realize that there is group is something different
from a teamwork. Reason is a team is always leaded by a team leader. All
members within all team members are responsible to take command from their
respective team leader. On the other side, group-work is completely different from
teamwork, because in this type of works no leader can give command to members.
There are all group members always has equal rights to operate activities under
group-work. On the basis of may experience, when people come together, and
create a group for achieving common goals, it the best way to complete any task on
time. In my group, we all members was decided to build a happy and healthy work
environment within group. I think here is a good-work culture is very necessary for
achieving any target in decide time period. A good work culture within a group-
work or a team work is important in removing lots of conflicts and errors in daily
operations.
I group, all members was has equal authority to operate activities of group-
work. But in that work, each member was has different skills. For example; I was
has effective communication skills, my one colleague who was experienced at
researching articles and books, another one was too good at writing report, and
lastly my one another colleague was very excellent at editing and ensuring.
Basically, in that group-work we all was has different and productive skills which
given too much support to complete our task on time. Then we all members was
decided to take different responsibilities to complete each activity on time. For
example; my all members told me to start work like a group leader, because I have
effective communication skills. I know completely know how to effectively talk
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someone, then I started acted like a leader. We all group members was decided to
give research task to that member who is experienced at researching articles and
books. That members were completely capable to research anything, so that role
was effectively covered by that member. My another member who was perfect in
report writing, so we all decided to give them work related to report writing. At the
end, we all given editing and ensuring task to that member who has great editing
and ensuring skills. In that situation, our group-work was started look like a
teamwork.
I learnt that, each member in a group is responsible to take their own
responsibilities, because it is too necessary to achieve targets of that work in
decided time period. There many conflicts also raises in a group-work, so each
member is need to develop or improve good communication skills. According to
my experience, these skills plays very big role to achieve success. All members are
able to remove many errors within a group work with support of excellent
communication skills. On that group-work, we all members was decided to
improve our these skills together. As a group or team leader, each person need to
learn some management skills as well. Reason is, A group-work is also required a
proper management to run all activities in productive way. Each member should
take knowledge about group formation. This knowledge will help to whole for
boosting its current progress. Each group-work is started to achieve something. In
my case, target of my group-work was to research on seminar activities. The best
thing was in my group is, there was each member was has their own specific skills.
I took too much appreciation from my colleagues because of my excellent
communication skills. My one colleague told me that you have opportunity to take
huge advantages from your these skills.
That group-work was has some strengths and some weaknesses too. For
example; we all group members was trust on each other, we liked to interact for
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understanding each other, we believed in unity. These all was strengths of that
group-work. On the other side, we members always taken too much time to take
each decision. This was the biggest weakness of that group-work. In short, we
always took too much time to take a single decision. These are some major
strengths and weaknesses of that group-work. I was also has some strengths and
weaknesses in that work. For example; I was has great communication skills and
interaction values, it was my strength. On the other side, I was not capable to
systematically manage my time, it was my main weakness. Then I was decided to
improve my time management skills, because these skills are important in a group-
work to complete each activity on time. To improve my these skills, I was read
many books and magazines which was based on time-management. These books
and magazines teaches how to systematically manage our time, so my opinion to
each person who work in group that, should study or read these time-management
books and magazines.
Success of any group-work or teamwork is not depended on one member's
efforts. There are all members should give equal contribution to complete their
task. Personal development is too necessary for each member, because with
support of personal development each member can learn different new aspects of
life. On the other side, leadership is the best way in teamwork to properly manage
strengths of each member. A group-work is also needed a leader, because a leader
can guide its group members about what to do, when to do, and how to do. But in
group-work, a leader should listen opinion of each member before taking any
decision. On the other side, Members within a group-work are always responsible
to come together for removing their weaknesses. Otherwise, that group-work can't
achieve its target in decided time period. These are some major things which I
learnt from a group-work.
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