Reflective Report on Group Work Experience in Leadership Management

This report provides a reflective analysis of a group work experience, focusing on the challenges and benefits of collaborative efforts. The author discusses the initial difficulties in understanding diverse working styles and expectations within the group, highlighting the importance of effective communication in overcoming these hurdles. The report applies Kolb's learning cycle to the experience, detailing the concrete experiences, reflective observations, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation phases. It emphasizes how understanding each team member's strengths and weaknesses, coupled with the implementation of new strategies like task delegation based on expertise, led to improved teamwork and the achievement of both individual and organizational goals. The report also references several academic sources to support its findings, offering a comprehensive overview of the value of reflective practice in leadership and management settings.

The Context of
Business

Table of Contents
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

TASK
Working in the group is very impactful experience for me as it gives me both the positive and
the negative experience. There are people in the team who have different skills and knowledge
which does not suited as per my expectations and there are people who are alike me. Managing
the tasks in the group can be difficult in the initials as everyone in my group having different
expectations and hopes from the projects and the task. But after working together for the longer
period of time gives us the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the others members
in the group (Long and Gummelt, 2020). Initially all of the us enters in the conflicts because of
clashes of thoughts. But with the passing time everyone communicate well with one another
effectively and understand the view point of each other which gives me that each and every
person in the group possess different quality which anyhow works for the goodness and
achievements of the goals. From my experience everyone in the group respect each other thought
process and everyone is equally involved in the tasks and generation of the ideas.
From the Kolb's reflective cycle in the first stage learners and the group members
encounters concrete experience by working with each other. I have also generate very strange
and unusual experience with the new people. In the stage two learners provides the experience
of working with others (McGuire and Essex, 2022). I firstly faced multiple difficulties in
understanding the different people in my group because of different approach of working. The
third stage is abstract conceptualization, which gives rise to the new idea and different
concepts. When we work together for a time and understand each other then the creation of the
new framework to perform the tasks generated. I have develop the new ideas with my group
members such as dividing the duties in the tasks, assigning the task as per the area of expert and
many more. The final stage is active experimentation, which gives rise to experiment more
with the new ideas (Robson, 2022). I have developed the idea to perform better by taking help
with my group members as per their ability. This helps me in multiple ways as I get know
different approaches of performing the tasks with the achievement of my personal as well as
organisational goals.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Long, E.M. and Gummelt, G., 2020. Experiential service learning: Building skills and sensitivity
with Kolb’s learning theory. Gerontology & geriatrics education, 41(2), pp.219-232.
McGuire, W. and Essex, J., 2022. Supporting sustained teacher development through reflection.
In Mentoring Teachers in Scotland (pp. 99-112). Routledge.
Robson, I., 2022. Reflection and Learning. In The Reflective Leader (pp. 5-24). Emerald
Publishing Limited.