Week 4- Draft Team Project Reflections

This week is all about writing and completing our project reflections. There were many aspects that had to be covered, which meant writing quite a lot.

The reflection is split up into 2 different areas- Team and Individual. The team element part has approximately 300 words and consists of our aims and objectives, research question, cross cultural perspectives, plans and the reason we have chosen this topic.

The second part deals with a more in depth response as it requires 1000 words. The personal/individual elements has these subtopics: Strengths and limitations of outcome in achieving project aims, work process strength and limitations, benefits and challenges of working in a team, strengths and weaknesses of own performance as team member, knowledge learnt on different cultural perspectives, developed practical skills and a bibliography referencing all the sources that were used for research purposes.

I wrote to the required word count and made sure I included the appropriate headings, font and text size. I also had to input a candidate number which was relatively new to me as I have never done a real exam before. In my reflection, I had to make sure I included all of the aspects and gave a suitable reflection to it. I tried to also include some details of our work process so far and how everything has been going for my team.

However, it was quite unfortunate for us as a team not being able to go out and interview some stakeholders as their responses will definitely be of great use to us.

Post hand in comments- I could have reflected more in the personal element, describing my thoughts and feelings. I also could have wrote more on the part of cross cultural perspectives and some of the things we learnt from it. I also had to include subtitles for each part as part of the correct format.

The entire process writing the reflection made me understand what it means to be a team member, how I can improve my personal and collaborative skills and how reflecting on the work can help me improve in certain areas.