Teamwork Experience: Self-Reflection on Roles, Stages and Skills

This report offers a self-reflective analysis of a student's teamwork experience, focusing on the benefits of effective collaboration and the challenges encountered. The student identifies their role within the team, highlighting responsibilities and characteristics that contributed to both strengths and weaknesses. The report discusses the application of Tuckman's four stages of team development—forming, storming, norming, and performing—to manage issues, resolve conflicts, and enhance team performance. It delves into the importance of interpersonal and communication skills, the role of decision-making, and the impact of trust and mutual understanding on achieving team goals. The student emphasizes the value of teamwork in improving performance and achieving targets, while acknowledging the difficulties that can arise from differing viewpoints and approaches. The report concludes with a positive outlook, emphasizing the rewarding nature of successful teamwork and its contribution to individual growth.

Team Work

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Self Reflective Of Teamwork Experience.......................................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

Self Reflective Of Teamwork Experience
For achieving the better quality of work and in less time then implementing good
teamwork can be helpful. Assign the roles and responsibilities to every member of the group and
acquire common goal. In this reflective, through teamwork, I clearly identified my role,
responsibilities and characteristic behaviour which helped me to learn about my strengths and
weakness. Also, I mentioned about different lessons and emergencies that happened in my
teamwork. Every team members were assigned different tasks which made us ensure about the
most outcomes of every individual and reduce the weakness of each others (Maxwell, 2013).
Including me there were 3 more members in the group. We all divided the work load. But before
assigning the work load we had to make various decision and strategies. My role is related to the
implementing and completing the tasks. Along with this my role requires to be perfect, concise
about the work and disciplined. Also, I need to identify different problems and issues that may
rise during the course of work. Like suppose, if any member is not able to complete his/her task
then my role is solve those issues and identify possible solution.
During my course and working in team, it made me understood that teamwork is not easy task.
Thus for the evaluation purpose and building good teamwork Tuckman's theory of four stages
helped us in managing various issues, problems and unexpected circumstances. This are required
for our team development. The four stages of Tuckman for the evolution of team is forming,
storming, norming and performing. This four stages helped our group to identify individual
strength and weakness. During the process it also helped me to understand different steps needed
to be taken for solving the issues(Valentine, Nembhard and Edmondson, 2015) .
Forming is the first stage, where we managed to resolve all the disputes regarding the project and
getting agree to some decision. Here guidance of the team leader is required, for working
together. As each one was having different mentality so we arrange the meeting and discussed
and carried out the solution. Now we were able to understand each other, so we can easily
overcome the weakness of each other and contribute to the strengths of each other.
Then comes the storming which means resolving all the cases in the team. We organized
different challenges within the team to complete the task as soon as possible. Tuckman's word to
say, conflict and contradiction typify this stage as differences surface. Many times I faced
problems regarding decision making because of other attitude. It can be student A has different
idea or approach then student B. Their conflict can reduce the teamwork. At such issues I tried to

resolve the issues by understanding the problem and getting possible outcomes. It also wasted
our lot of time(Galegher, Kraut and Egido, 2014).
Norming was the stage when we started having trusting on each other. The feeling of
togetherness helped us a lot. We grew more mature and through our teamwork we were able to
achieve the target. The last stage was performing, where in which we focused on the refreshing,
implementing and completing of the project. Despite of such argument we were able to work as
team in smooth and efficient manner. Due to team work we were able to manage our task on
time and it also helped us to improve our performance (Mäkikangas and et.al., 2016).
Through Tuckman's stages, I was able to understand the interpersonal skills, communication
skills and discipline. Now we all were able to mutual understand each other, trust was
developed. It highly motivated and inspired me. I also enjoyed most while working in team.
From teamwork experience, I understood the need to team work to complete the task and it feels
really amazing as our targets and goals can be achieved. It helps in building the strength and
improves the performance of the individual.

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