Reflective Journal: Group Presentation Experience and Learning

This reflective journal documents a student's experience with a group PowerPoint presentation on marketing. The student reflects on the importance of teamwork, detailing the initial hesitation in working with others and the eventual development of strong team dynamics. The journal describes the preparation process, including rehearsals and the use of a WhatsApp group to overcome scheduling conflicts. It highlights the positive aspects of collaboration, such as brainstorming and mutual support, as well as the challenges faced, including disagreements and individual insecurities. The student emphasizes the value of shared learning, the development of new skills, and the importance of team spirit. The reflection covers the student's personal contribution, the support received from team members during the presentation, and the overall positive impact of the experience on their communication skills and confidence. The conclusion reinforces the benefits of teamwork and the personal growth achieved through the project.

Reflective Journal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Description..................................................................................................................................1
Went well....................................................................................................................................1
Went wrong.................................................................................................................................2
Contribution................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Reflective journal is a perfect way through which a person can note down some of the
biggest thoughts which they achieve in their entire life (Bassot, 2016). Reflective journal is
basically provided the exact idea which a person experience during their work. In this report,
researcher present their own experience and their group members contribution in order to
complete the project.
MAIN BODY
Description
The report presents my own experience which I feel during the time to presenting a group
PPT presentation in a class. This presentation is considered the best show for me because that
realize me the importance of doing a work in a group. The demonstration is about the marketing
topic and for that we start talking in a group and then select a place so that we all get together
and start rehearsing for our PPT presentation on the topic of marketing. Further, after rehearsing
I start feeling that work in a team is better rather than individualism. During rehearsing, we all
start helping each other and we all realized having a brainstorm that help us to sort out many
problems such as conflicts related to PPT presentation. It’s not that we all have spent a very good
time during our rehearsal but we also share some negative moments too such that we all start
arguing each other on some topic related to marketing PPT but at the end our clashes sort out and
even me and my team members also try to sort out each other problem. Because we all are
working as a team (Scragg, 2018). My experience during the entire PPT presentation was
excellent because I learn so many good things.
Went well
For the first time when I met with other people I was hesitated because I usually ignoring
to met with unknown. But after spending some time with my teammates during rehearsal, I came
to know that they are also good and share a good information to each other. I also realized that
they all always learn a new word and then applied it during last presentation which we perform
in front of class and that I like the most among them. This thing I also learn and because of this
practice I learn so many new words and in current situation I also used those into my vocabulary.
But on the other side I also feel that something is not going right because of every one's busy
schedule no one have a time to rehearse for our group presentation and to sort out this problem, I
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make what's app group in which every night we all start presenting own part in front of each
other through video calling. Everyone was amazed that even because of our engaged schedule
we still practice and every member of my team also contributed their own part in this
presentation.
Went wrong
Through this way, we all start interacting with each other and come to realize that the
people should have courage and enthusiasm in order to complete the work on time. Hence, I also
feel that to work in a team is actually good rather than doing a work in individual. Because many
new ideas are generated and through this way to present the project in a class room become more
interesting. During rehearsal time, there are so many good and bad things happen which also
help me and my team members to learn new thing. Such that firstly, we have a small induction in
which we introduce our self and then assign duties to each other like I choose to speak on topics
because my communication I far better than other and on the other side, my other team members
making some notes regarding presentation. They all say about their strength as well as
weaknesses in frankly manner which seem quite interesting because it has been analysed that no
one will speak about own weaknesses but they all did so and that thing impressed me a lot. After
assigning duties to all we proceed to next phase that Is to know each other wrong point which
creates negative impact upon the audience. In this situation, my entire team member do their
work in strong manner. Even they stop me and says about my negative point which I like the
most and in the same way they all say the same to each other. In this way our interaction become
more strong. But it is all about positive thing, there is another side also in which we all have a
conflicts and this also affect our project in negative manner (Chng, 2018). But this conflict also
sort out and at the end we easily present our presentation. At the end, during our presentation,
when my colleague feel hesitated to communicate his part then I covered those part and in this
way we all contributed in entire presentation and completed our presentation in effective manner.
Contribution
On the day of PPT presentation, we all were so nervous and even did not face each other.
I feel that I am a strong communicator but at that time I also lose my confidence and this makes
me demotivate. But at that time we work as a team and start motivating each other. That day was
our last day of rehearsal but for us that day was so special because we all did not know that we
all will become so special for each other and the way we motivated each other I even cannot
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describes. Now the time comes to present our self but we don’t know how the project is going to
be held during PPT presentation. We present different topic such as definition of marketing, its
importance, various model used to evaluate the performance of the company etc. Even at the
time of presenting a project I am not able to give proper speech and at that time my team mate
support me and speak on behalf of me. This shows the team spirit and unity as well which every
team must have. This positive attitude of my team members makes me more confident and I start
presenting myself in effective manner and as a result, it becomes one of the best presentation
ever.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above, it has been concluded that to work in a team assist a person to
learn many new and different thing which I experience during my presentation. Hence, the entire
experience was excellent and the contribution of me and my team member realizes that working
in a team is the best part which every one should experience for once.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bassot, B., 2016. The reflective journal. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Chng, S .I., 2018. Incorporating reflection into computing classes: models and
challenges. Reflective Practice, pp.1-18.
Scragg, T., 2018. 8: Reflective Practice on Placement. Reflective Practice in Social Work, p.139.
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