Referring back to these targets when tasks were set throughout the past months improved my self-awareness as I focused on my emotions, personality traits,&goals, perceptions (Morin, 20). My emotional intelligence developed due to logging reflections each week which pushed me to discuss how I felt. An example of my emotional intelligence improving was when selecting a project manager. Knowing there was going to be a teamwork setting, I previously evaluated how I perform in a team. Normally putting myself forward for the lead role, I decided not to. Being aware of myself, I know my personality can come across as bossy or dominating and I wanted to see how I did if I took a different role. Emotional intelligence influences an employees ability or inability to perform their job by managing their emotions&Having this social awareness affects a persons capacity to manage workplace demandsΒ
(Davis, 209) Both experiences taught me that it is essential to be self-aware and develop emotional intelligence when undertaking tasks as you can affect judgment, what is best for the task, the success level of the outcome, and working environment.
In most jobs working within a team occurs regularly. There were two group projects handed out. Project (see appendix Week 3) had us present during Week 7 then I reflected on it using Gibbs Reflective Cycle which
splits the reflection into six stages of exploring an experience (Gibbs, 988) (see Appendix Week 7). The reflection under feelings is significant as it acknowledges how I felt about the presentation. As well, the evaluation and conclusion section as I identified where the project went wrong, what could of be done better, and how I would do it again which was good preparation for Project 2. (see Appendix Week 9). Project 2 was presented in Week , I reflected using a method similar to 5WH problem solving (Kipling, 902) (Jinks, 209) where there was a set of questions that helped to focus on different parts of the reflection. I felt there were noticeable differences in how I worked, how the team worked, and what we achieved in our presentations in Week 7 vs Week . In Project I wasnt confident because of how we worked, and what we produced, and communication levels were low. However, in Project 2, although we had less time and a bigger task, what we produced was better due to improved communication. (see Appendix Week 7 and ) My biggest challenge with teamwork was adjusting to online teams as never had done teamwork online. If we worked on another project, I believe having more group meetings would have helped us more. The teamwork I did within this module taught me that when you face challenges you need different perspectives for solutions.