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The beginning of the whole event and planning:-
1.Theories of working in teams:
Event Planning – Reflection analysis, When groups were revealed during the seminar we had a mini brainstorming session where we were giving ideas that we had in mind, however we acknowledged that we would need to go and individually do more research into the event and charity we would like to use to be able to see if we were able to do so as a group. On our official first meeting we all had ideas however after sometime the ideas that were brought forward were not realistic to achieve bearing in mind the £50 budget that was given by the university.
Through this experience at the planning process it was easy and clear to identify Belbin (1981) theory and distinguish the category we belong into, surprisingly each of us fell into one of the category “Action, Thinking , People” and sometimes in the middle of all three which was great as we were four members each having their specialist area which made it easier to share the workload and the individual that fell in the middle of all three was able to help and clear the tinted view of each other that had that particular skill. Belbin (1981) explains that not a single individual may have all the qualities to accomplish the overall group work totally right. Team members were assigned role of their own choice which helped them to steer clear of responsibilities they may not be able to fulfill.
Reflecting back on the group performance, the success of the team was the result of combination of team roles in it. The roles identified by Belbin are not great and to some extent, shape the individual roles in a team. From which I agree that the nine roles explained by Belbin; all the nine roles are not necessary to achieve success. Referring this to the group I think that five roles are sufficient to achieve success as some roles are doubled up such as the specialist role was also capable of performing the role of plant therefore Belbin theory allows individual role to play a secondary role in a team.
We worked well together as we all had individual strengths and skills, which meant everyone knew their task and responsibly, however there was a time at the beginning of the process where some skills conflicted with one anther which resulted in two different views. For instance, sometimes I found it hard to express myself whereas one of my group members has a strong talent in expressing themselves; which overpowered my ability to try and express myself.
Therefore I used body language to let them understand as an auxiliary means of sound language, Event Planning – Reflection analysis the body language plays huge importance in the language communication. As Lurnsden (2000) stated that communication is one of the essential and important skills and refers to the process as brining messages from one individual to another. It can either be verbal or non-verbal but in my case it was verbal as English is not my first language, which meant that sometimes when I was trying to express my views or ideas it wasn’t as clear to the others especially…
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