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How To Write A Reflective Essay On Group Work

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This essay serves as a reflection for myself and the process our group went through for the semester. Through this module, I gained greater insights about myself, discovering my strengths and weaknesses when working in a team, as a member, and as a leader.

Reflecting upon the past few months, cohesiveness was something very valuable I picked up from this group project. It was something our group never failed to have, even from the moment we formed the group. Initially, I was very critical towards group work because of my prior experiences with bad groupmates. I always had a perception that members of the group would not be able to get along. However, being together with the seven friends I made from the LTB journey, I was blessed to have met such great team members. This group had allowed me to have a different perspective towards group work, and now I genuinely look forward to more group works in the future. I did the survey with this group in mind, and cohesiveness is in fact reflected in the results. The score of 4.20 upon 5 is obtained which is above the average of 3.87.

Building team rapport, I believe, is the most important aspect when doing a group project. I have learnt that it is very crucial to know each other on a level more than being just groupmates. We heeded the professor’s advice to at least have one …show more content…

I believe we ended up being middle-of-the-road leaders, where we strived for a balance between the welfare and the productivity of the project. Our group tends to be very indecisive. This could be partially because everyone adopted the participative leadership approach. We tried to get everyone’s opinions as much as possible. This approach made our decision making process unnecessarily long at times. Hence changing the style to being middle-of-the-road, allowed us to catch up on the project and got the process

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