University Name - Reflection on Communication in Teamwork

This assignment is a reflective journal focusing on communication skills and practices within a teamwork context. The student analyzes their experiences using the OOE framework: observation, occurrences, and experiences. The observation section details both positive and negative aspects of the teamwork experience, including issues like lack of communication and one-way communication. The occurrences section describes the events, particularly team formation and the challenges faced. The experiences section provides a personal account of the student's feelings and learnings throughout the process. The student reflects on the initial disappointment of team assignment, the evolving feelings during the project, and the eventual positive outcome. An action plan is included, outlining the student's commitment to improved communication in future teamwork activities. The reflection emphasizes the importance of self-reflection in identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, as well as the benefits of open communication in team settings. The paper concludes by summarizing the key components of self-reflection and its impact on personal and professional development.

Running head: REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Name of Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
Self-reflection refers to the ability of an individual to carry out self-introspection in order
to understand his strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Self-reflection helps in
gaining new understanding based on past experiences. Self-reflection helps in developing
problem solving and also helps in higher level thinking (Husebø, O'Regan & Nestel, 2015).
Moreover self-reflection helps in self-improvement and also helps in creating a link between
learning and practical work. The main aim of the paper is to carry out reflection related to
communication skills and practices. The paper will therefore discuss about the different parts of
the OOE or observation, occurrence and experiences.
Discussion
Observation
Observation refers to the process of observing something or someone. The observation
part discusses the good and bad part of experience (Thorpe, 2004). The bad part of the
experience included lack of appropriate communication between all the members and use of one
way communication by the team leader. On the other the good part of the experience was that I
was happy that I got to learn so much through my team work experience. The observation part
also includes analysis about the how negative consequences could have been changed through
different actions on part of an individual. It also includes discussion on the causes and
consequences of action (Sekarwinahyu et al., 2019). I feel that the negative consequences could
have been avoided if all the team members took part actively in the entire team work process
because many of the team members did not show any interest in any of the team work activities.

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Occurrences
Occurrences include the happening of an event. The event that has happened with me
includes- team formation and the entire experience are related to formation and the experiences
learned during the entire process. Occurrences also includes the activities that could have been
done differently, what actually stopped the individual from doing things differently and also
includes- the learning’s of an individual from an event. I feel that the entire experience could
have been better if I would have communicated about all my concerns to my team leader and
other members.
Experiences
Experience includes relevant details of every event. I have recently been a part of a team
that was formed by our teacher for purpose of completion of project (Tesh & Kautz, 2017).
While I was a part of the team I had been faced with a lot of issues such as lack of
communication, one way communication on part of the team leaders and lack of trust between
the team members. However, the overall experience was good as after the initial challenges we
were able to reach an agreement with each other. Experiences also include discussion about
feelings prior to, during and after the experience. At the time when the team was formed I was
not very happy because I wanted to be in the team where my friends were there and therefore I
was disappointed because I did not many the people of the team. During this experience, my
feelings towards the team changed and finally I felt good about the whole experience because I
had learnt a lot from the entire experience.

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Action plan
The action plan includes- a plan for future related to development of an individual. I have
understood the importance of open communication and therefore from now on I will try to take
an initiative in case of team work activities.
Conclusion
Therefore from the above discussion, it has been understood that self-reflection helps an
individual in improving themselves through analysis of their past experiences and drawing
learning from the same. From the paper, it has also been understood that self-reflection includes
description of a past experiences in three main parts observation, occurrences and experiences.
From the paper, it is evident that observation is the process of closely observing events,
occurrence includes the happening of an event and experiences includes- gathering of learning
from a particular event.

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