Reflective Practice Assessment



Executive Summary

This report will highlight the time spent within my Globus team and the experiences I had. The duration of the Globus exercise was approximately 12 Weeks. Globus is a online exercise running a digital camera industry with head on competition against other class groups. To keep up with competition, certain strategic decisions need to be put in to place such as pricing, marketing etc. We formed a team of five, by giving short introductions, where the purpose of this activity was to form a team with students to obtain different skills and knowledge. As a whole, my team had a great mixture of participants all with a differentiated background, age, status, ethnicity and gender. The purpose of this report is to highlight the key points when working as a group such as:

Describing what happened

The feelings that occurred

Evaluating the good and bad experiences,

Analysing how I felt

Conclude on what I could have done better and what I will do next time if the same situation occurs.

Working in a team, genuinely has a high possibility that members are bound to come across both positive and negative experiences, therefore this gives a person a chance to reflect back and ensure to be able to deal with situations for future team work tasks. Despite the fact that our group had members of different ethinicity and culture, we got along very well and were successful in the completion of our task. The experience was a great learning and every member took it in a possible manner.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Negative Critical Incident5

Positive Critical Incident8

Conclusion9

References12

Reflective Practice Assessment

Introduction

A reflective practice is a term for those effective activities in which individuals explore their experiences in order to lead a new understanding (Boud, 1985). Critical incidents are events or circumstances which make a person stop and think and raise/view assumptions (Serat, 2010). There were both, positive as well as negative critical incidences, which occurred whilst working as a group. In particular, the differences in communication, knowledge, teamwork and cultural diversity created difficulty for us to get along well. As a result, it impacted our performance, which will be elaborated later. Thus, it is important to be able to develop transferable skills and critically analyse of what caused a change in attitude, from reflecting back upon my reactions to different situations and what led me to make certain decisions.

“Individual differences are ways in which people are similar and how they vary in their thinking, feeling and behaviour”, (Schermerhorn et al., 2011, pp 26). In my group there were five participants, from a differentiated age group, ethnic backgrounds and gender. Three of the group members including myself were British whilst the other two members were from Eastern Europe. Additionally, the group consisted of three females and two male members. I felt that we all had diverse personalities and characteristics, which on occasions made it difficult to work with one another. In relation to this, Hans Eysenck (1965) stated that an individual can either be an extrovert ...