Path Way Project: Reflective Report on Teamwork, Skills and Learning

This report provides a reflective analysis of a student's experience working on a business plan project in a team setting. The student reflects on the development of various skills, including teamwork, delegation, decision-making, problem-solving, and communication, while working with a diverse group of individuals. The report discusses the positive aspects of group work, such as knowledge building and skill enhancement, while also addressing challenges like communication gaps and personality conflicts. The Gibbs reflective cycle is used to structure the analysis, covering the description of the event, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action. The report highlights the importance of time management, organization, and effective communication within a team, offering insights into leadership and project management. The student concludes with lessons learned and how these experiences can be applied to future group projects and professional endeavors.

Path Way Project

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Working in team and preparing the group assignment or group project will be very
effective for both individual and group people. I was also working on project of developing
business plan with 5 other group members who are of different personality and coming form
various backgrounds. It was not easy to work with them all in group as it is not necessary that
they all will be agreeing with each other on same point. So this reflective will be covering all the
points onto which we all especially me develop my skills and knowledge.
MAIN BODY
Team work will always be building up many skills and knowledge relating to the topic
and also for an individual development as well. All the people who are working in group are of
different background and they are having their own goal and aim in working in the team. I was
working with 5 other group members on the project of business plan and while working in that
group project there was some skills and knowledge which I learnt.
The main positive point of working in group is that it build up our knowledge about that
topic and come across many new points and gaining recognition about that topic. As before I was
not at all good at working in group I also regarded working in group was nothing but chaos
making activity in which no one was concern about anyone. But after we all come and started
working into group I realized that I'm having potential of working in group and handling all of
them as well. Even thou I build up my learning on the topic, I came to know about what the
company is, in which product or service it is dealing into and how will it can expand its business
by doing more investment. I also developed many skills within me of working into one team and
making connection with the people.
There are some employment skills which I was easily able to develop into myself and
then get the professional experience of working into together in a team.
Team working- this is the main skill which I developed in myself as I was lacking the
experience of working in team and handling people under me. This is very important part of
working into group of people as this will be enabling all to able to understand each other easily
(Hampf, Wiederhold and Woessmann, 2017).

Delegation- this means understanding what skill and knowledge each person in group is having
and then giving piece of work according to that capability of each one of them. As I was the team
leader of that group so it was my duty to delegate all work into people and then make them work.
Decision making- being the team leader it was my duty to make decisions regarding the
planning and what data would be useful in that group project. I also learnt and developed how I
can make correct decisions which were in accordance to my project and team.
Problem solving- it was also my responsibility to solve all type of small and big problems which
was occurring while working into group (Lara and Osborne, 2017). Problem solving skill was
also developed into myself so that I could resolve all the issues which were there among other
group members.
Communication skill- this is also important while people are working in the group to
communicate with one another and how to give the available information to all. The channel
which we are choosing for keeping our views onto the other people in group will be very
significant in this process of communication. I also learnt who can I convey my thoughts, views
and perception with the people in my group and to be able to tell them what they have to do
according to their skill and level of knowledge.
Organising and planning- as I was the team leader of that group so it was my duty to organise
and plan for what we all need ot do, how will we be doing the work and who will be doing what
work. I also developed the skill of organising and planning things according to the available time
which we were having and the source of data which we were having.
Time management- this was very important in the group work which we were doing if an
individual is able to manage their time then he can do that work every efficiently (Gilson, Carter
and Biggs, 2017). Time management will be very important if we need ot finish our work in the
given time limit which was about 3 days.

In working with group of people it will be very much important that all the members are
coordinating and cooperating equally. This will be ensuring that all of them are working and
each one of them are contributing to make the group project more efficient and good so that
project will be very good (Emery and Chang, 2017). For the reflection writing purpose we can
also use the Gibbs cycle which is used in the reflective essay writing and will be defining whole
event which took place. This cycle include 5 different steps which are as follows:
1. Description- in this step there will be description of whole event like who all are
involved in the project, when did that happened, what happened, what was done and what
was the result of that situation.
2. Feelings- this will be including that what were the feelings of an individual and that of
the other members are group, what did they felt about others, and what are the feelings at
present time or both me as individual and that of group.
3. Evaluation- this part will be including all positive and negative point of that situation,
what went well and what need to be corrected and improved.
4. Conclusion- after I have done the evaluation of the process I can easily make out all
conclusions regarding the situations (Tesh and Kautz, 2017). This will also be telling
what are the skills and knowledge which were developed and how those could be used in
further plan or action.
Illustration 1: Gibbs reflective cycle
[Source: Gibbs reflective cycle, 2018]

5. Action- when the same situations raised next time what action could be taken to deal
with similar conditions (Gibbs reflective cycle, 2018).
At this point when all were involved in the group work or activity and making plan of business
of event management it is very important to analysis both positive and negative parts. This will
be helping me in my future working and experience with the team or group. There were 6
members of group including myself as the group leader, we were all making the business plan of
an event company within the set time limit of 3 days. As they all were of different background,
qualifications and personalities were also different from each others. So main problem which
raised working with all the others in group like communication gap as they all were not easily
communicating with each other and this was making lots of problems.
The other problem was that of different personalities who were working there as one
person who was under the project was making lot of problems and issues. He was not able to
communicate with all others in more efficient manner he also creates difficulty while working
into group. This was very hard for me to handle him as he was not listening ot anyone in that
group and was making the winding up of the project difficult. I was not having much experience
of handling the people in group so this was not easy for me to handle him as well.
While there was one who was not having accurate level of knowledge about the
expansion of business plan. This was really very difficult for me to make him understand each
and every thing in that project so I decided that he will be only helping others in their work and
was not suppose to do any work all alone. Communication gap was also one of my biggest
difficulty which I faced while working and making them work according to the set criteria. They
all were not using proper communication channels ot convey their thoughts and ideas to each
other.
There was also problem of proper decision making while working together as all the
decision regarding what data should be used, how it must be used and who will be doing what
were hard to make. I alone was handling 5 different types of personalities in the group so this
was not easy for me to do this. For me to evaluate the positive and negative part of the project

and working in team was not that much easy. The main element which I needed was of managing
all of them and making them work all according to their speciality.
As in the project which was based on the Ace Evolution event limited which was
planning to expand their business after 3 years of establishment. There were some knowledge as
well which was developed in myself. Like I was able to understand the concept of enterprise and
entrepreneurs which is regarded as the organised and regulated business systems and working
together in making profits. All the staff of the organisation need to be qualified for their role in
that company and should be registered in the company act. Management and marketing process
must be followed by company and they must be earning higher amount of profits.
CONCLUSION
It was clearly concluded that there need to be a good and efficient team of people who are
working together in to a project. I have learnt many things which will be helping me in
developing employment skill and widening my knowledge base. As I was the leader of that
group which was my first opportunity to deal with different types of people who working under
same group.

REFERENCES
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Gilson, C.B., Carter, E.W. and Biggs, E.E., 2017. Systematic Review of Instructional Methods
to Teach Employment Skills to Secondary Students With Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities. 42(2). pp.89-
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Hampf, F., Wiederhold, S. and Woessmann, L., 2017. Skills, earnings, and employment:
exploring causality in the estimation of returns to skills. Large-scale Assessments in
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Lara, J. and Osborne, S., 2017. Teaching Pre-Employment Skills to 14–17-Year-Olds: The
Autism Works Now!® Method. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Tesh, A.S. and Kautz, D.D., 2017. Using Reflective Practice in a Leadership Course. Nurse
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Gibbs reflective cycle. 2018 [Online]. Accessed through:
<https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/reflective-cycle.htm>