ENEG20001 - Reflective Paper: Teamwork and Behavioral Changes

This report is a reflective analysis of teamwork and behavioral changes within an engineering context, addressing the requirements of the ENEG20001 Australian Engineering Practice course. The report begins by examining a personal experience of team collaboration, detailing the author's role in fostering teamwork, the challenges encountered, and the strategies employed to build trust and encourage open communication within the team. The analysis follows a 'What, So what, What now, What else' framework to dissect the situation, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative efforts. The second part of the report focuses on the author's self-assessment, identifying the behavioral changes needed to become a more effective engineer. It emphasizes traits like trustworthiness, open-mindedness, risk management, and goal setting. The author explains the importance of these changes and how they align with leadership aspirations. The report concludes with a discussion on the impact of individual growth on the overall team dynamics and the importance of continuous learning and development. The report includes a bibliography with relevant sources.

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Effective Engineering

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Question1.
Answer:
What: Teamwork and team collaboration is an important aspect and skills for the company.
Team collaboration is a major factor of the environment for every company whether it is sports
or engineering industry (Hall, 2018). Working in teams helps employees to be quicker and more
effective in their workplace. I worked in a team in my previous organization. I was working as a
senior consultant. To collaborate in the team, i shared a wealth of knowledge about how to be
effective and work effectively as a team. I myself encouraged collaboration amongst teams and it
allowed team members to work on the same platform. Being a good leader my first step was to
establish collaborations amongst the team is adopting and encouraging the team as well to set a
new mindset to be open and work out loud. Because a spirit of openness and generosity brings
more opportunity for collaboration and connection (Glickman, 2018) as a result employees
learned from each other about many new tasks and got opportunity to learn something new. I
encouraged my team to be brave to attend new task and use a new technique.
So What: However this caused discomfort in the team. Some were not happy to learn new
technology as they had to put extra effort. Although i advised them that they should try new
technique as will help for their future for sure and will improve their work and performance. But
the trust factor was the issue some of them trusted me and some of them just ignored my advice.
What now: I later realized that this will not help to establish collaboration in the team if the team
does not trust each other and on me as well. In addition, to establish better collaboration amongst
team members’ team member has to trust each other also they should have trust on me.
Therefore, I stated getting engaged and involved with the team without being overbearing. I

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asked about their opinion and worked with them on same level. This is how i made up the trust in
between the team members.
What else: I explicitly designed individual’s growth goals and considered what creates values. I
had conversation with each member of the team about where they want to grow and how I can
play a role in supporting that growth, and assured sure their goals are not reflecting organizations
goals. I appreciated team to be more transparent and it helped to collaborate effectively. I
encouraged the team to share work in progress and techniques so that other employee can invite
suggestion and correction for their work. Trust is the factor that plays a major role if employees
trust each other than feedbacks would be considered positively (Bond-Barnard, 2018).
Collaboration brought many advantages as it helped to increase team’s morale to work in any
industry. It also helped in building the trust and transparency at the work. However, it also
caused too many disadvantages such as too many people were end up with trying to lead the
group. It took a long time and efforts to build up the trust and motivate employee to take the
backseat and just do what it takes to get the job done, because everyone was from different
background with different understanding. When there is different people group to teach and
collaborate on one team or responsibilities it is possible to arising a conflict of in working style
of the individuals (Silva, 2016).

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Question2.
Answer:
What: I personally need to make some changes to my work behavior to be a more effective
engineer. I want to develop personality traits that will help me out to achieve goals. I believe that
trustworthy is one of the traits that I have to adopt. However, it will take time to build trust in a
company but it will lead to having a positive outcome. One of the most seeking changes I want
to bring is being open-minded. I should not focus on the small problems or immediate desires
and it is essential to see the big picture like how my effort impacting and outcome and how they
are helping my success to be effective engineer also where I need to work on. I want to learn
how to manage risk, as plans are not always perfect, problems can arise anytime and anything
can go wrong. I am very bad at facing challenges accordingly it affects my performance every
time. I have to be positive while facing challenges and learn how to manage risk. Setting realistic
and challenging goals also one of the important behavioral changes i want to adopt.
So what: It is normal for one person to impress people especially having plans to gain good
designation however developing plans that are too big to achieve will not make it any better.
Objectives must be explicit significance attainable and in detail while being sufficiently moving
to energize performing admirably. These objectives should likewise be quantifiable, achievable,
and unmistakable and following a time span. If they are not measured properly, they cannot be
achieved.
What Now: For this I have to set the target and have to make short goals than I should check the
work progress against work objectives. Making challenging goals that’s something will benefit
my future and my company as well. Assumptions are the portion of the every plan, a case of this

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is expecting the quantity of new items that will be sold (determining), productivity, contender's
activity, accessibility of items, and the demand of the service and product.
What else: Also, there are the situation that you are on your own, running out of time, and
should make a choice, you should take control of the condition and take action to stop a tragedy
from happening. Team building also a trait that I want to adopt as this will also help me to my
aim for management or leadership designation. As all aspects of the group will assume a
significant job in each organization and most colleagues require direction and a course to be
given to (Osibanjo, 2018). To be a leader it is important for me to consider the weaknesses and
strengths of each member. This will allow me (as a leader) to help and motivate them towards
converting the opportunities into actual benefits, while working for the company. Further, it will
also help in improving the weak areas over time, thereby building a stronger team. If I do not pay
attention, and gain knowledge, about my team members and colleagues, neither will it help them
in improving upon their week area nor would I be able to learn anything from their strong areas.
So I should get engage with them more and help them. This will allow me to gain knowledge
about their performance.
I believe that I need to make these behavioral changes to be effective engineer. It will also help
me for my future target to being a leader as well.

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Bibliography
Bond-Barnard, T. F. L. a. S. H., 2018. Linking trust and collaboration in project teams to project
management success.. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 11(2), pp. 432-
457.
Glickman, L., 2018. The science of team science: A review of the empirical evidence and
research gaps on collaboration in science.. [Online]
Available at: https://urj.org/blog/2018/01/16/6-principles-effective-collaboration
[Accessed 13 05 2019].
Hall, K. V. A. H. G. S. K. R. E. T. S. a. F. S., 2018. The science of team science: A review of the
empirical evidence and research gaps on collaboration in science.. American Psychologist, 73(4),
p. 532.
Osibanjo, A. A. J. F. H. a. O. O., 2018. Work ethics and employees’ job performance.. Journal of
Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 12(1), pp. 107-117.
Silva, H., 2016. Collaborative Learning in Industrial Design.. In International Conference on
Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, pp. 25-31.