Reflective Essay On Group Development

There are areas of development I have come to identify and recognize in myself with the help of my peers and professors. First, communication pattern: “means frequency and quality of the actual ways each group member connects with other group members” (McKinlay & Ross, 2008, p. 35). I need to attain more verbal and non-verbal communication skills, such as learning to give my full physical attention to people. Another area I need to develop more of is my organizational skills; it is important to have good time management skills together with well-developed multitasking, and great attention to detail and follow through when facilitating because this would be of a great assistant to my group members. Based on the dynamic of my group, I identified …show more content…
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I observed that I used lots of Social Service Worker skills, such as reflective listening, clarifying, and information-giving not advice. For example, one of the students in my group shared with us one of the challenges he his experiencing at his placement; he mentioned that he is passionate about teaching, and he has been teaching for many years back in his home country. He expresses his uncomfortable feelings about the high school students he his teaching because they are rude, and the behaviours of those students do not align with his beliefs and values. Based on his expression and comments, I gave a friendly feedback that western culture is different from third world countries because the western world is more individualistic countries and third world countries are collectivist countries, therefore, disciplining is perceived differently. I said to him, as a developing Social Service Worker, we need to be sensitive to people of different cultural background; in that way, we will be able to adapt, assimilate, and integrate ourselves into any environment we find