My teamwork experience from this course was overall positive and I believe I have learned an extraordinary amount about myself and how to work collaboratively with other personalities. My teamwork experience allowed me to focus on self-awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses in a group environment; my strengths being my collaborative nature and openness to new ideas as well as my weaknesses being my lack of time management and sometimes stubborn nature. As well as this I have developed my awareness of others including their needs and wants in a group setting allowing me to work on my weaknesses and strengthen my strengths as well as all of us feeling as though we fit in, I felt as though I was a part of something.
Time management was another lesson gained, whereby I do not want to let anyone down, so I, therefore, manage to get my part of the teamwork completed on time and to a high caliber. I learned that goal setting was an integral part of teamwork and constantly establishing goals for the week allowed us to work towards something which definitely encourages me to get the job done efficiently. I have also learned about friendships making my first group of university friends through these weeks of teamwork and collaboration. Which I am most grateful for.
The fact that I have been able to make friends with people from all different areas of Sydney, from all different backgrounds and walks of life. This has definitely expanded my world and my mind, and I am content to call my teammates my new friends. My teamwork experience has taught me to trust and to not be afraid to express ideas that may not necessarily be correct as we all made it a point to listen and help each other when necessary. Our team had the ability to overcome difficulties, again through collaboration and thought, though there is always room for improvement. My experience with my group was overall fantastic and aided in communication and teamwork building as being in a group forced me to remain on time and prepared.
Coming into the group I had fears that we would not get along or our ideas would be too different that there would be conflict, I was pleasantly surprised, and even through differences in ideas or opinions, we managed to be understanding and compromise. These lessons would be able to assist me in my future career as I would like to own my own company I believe that through great teamwork skills, management skills will follow as all thoughts and feelings are noted and assessed and that is what makes an effective manager through delegation of roles, communication, and effective collaboration.