英国大学reflection的一般写作范例.docVIP

Reflections Introduction It is becoming increasingly clear that experience is the best teacher (Thomas and Cheese, 2005). I remember my first residential in Buxton as if it were yesterday. The memorable experience has, directly and profoundly, influenced my fundamental understanding of teamwork. The purpose of the essay is to make an individual self-critical analysis through the introspection of my strengths and weaknesses in team-working, communication skills, effective leadership and time management. Collaboration It is my honor to be one of Team B6, whose outstanding performance was well recognized. The more important thing is the course brought home to me the value of teamwork. First and foremost, a team role is a proclivity to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way (Belbin, 2003). The essential benefit from teamwork is that it produces outcome rapidly and reasonably through the free exchange of ideas, information, and knowledge when suitably managed. Everyone of our team spared no effort to fulfill the task. It was the best evidence that we got the second position of “Town Trail” at the start of residential. Plunging into practices with enormous enthusiasm is closely related to success. Moreover, building trust may seem a typical challenge for any team (Kirkman et al., 2002), especially like us from the different cultural backgrounds. We made a success in “Stepping Stones”; nevertheless, we failed in “3D Puzzle” as a result of the lack of trust despite the fact that the time was sufficient. It is unwise to trust people whom you do not know well, whom you have not observed in action over time (Handy, 1995). Hence in the future virtual team, we should build much reliance by frequent face-to-face interaction. Last but not least, high-quality planning under the efficient leadership is the vital way to victory. All the teams need to have meetings before making serious plan and decision (Hall, 1999). However, it also brings disagreement