Reflection on My Personal Role in Teamwork

This is a reflective essay about my role in the team and how the process as well as the challenges that were faced in the completion of the task. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a self-assessment so as to evaluate the role of an individual within the team in comparison to the other team members with regards to effectiveness of the team work.

Introduction

With my experience in Chifley Business School, I find myself ready for the future and in a position to take up more challenging tasks as it comes. I am so excited to receive my master’s degree in Business Administration with a plan to engage myself in the field like Human Resource, Banking, Telecommunication and Marketing so as to play an important role as a successful Team leader/ Manager. The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the organizational behavior within my Team and how we connected even though we were all from different countries with geographical differences which had us in a challenging state of mind. The team members were selected from different nationalities and backgrounds by Chifley. Our Team consisted of 5 members later turned down to 3 from which 2 were from Australia and 1(myself) was from United Arab Emirates. We had introduced ourselves in brief so as to work our way to complete the required tasks on time considering we were only 3 members. Here I felt we have not had the chance to know each other more however there was a positive attitude to working with one another.

In this course we had participated in bringing out 9 important readings related to team work in order to design a rubric suggested by each one of us like decision making, empowering, team work, effective communication and Integrity. Even though the team consisted of 3 we had to discuss and negotiate the top 5 readings hence my role was based on sharing creative ideas, knowledge and best practices openly and proactively. While setting