Reflective Journal

Week 2: sharing group responsibility

Upon receiving the group task, we held a group discussion to distribute the task among ourselves. The entire task was shared among five members who formed the whole team. One of our group members was assigned a leading role to help to distribute ask among all members. All the members remained calm during responsibility sharing, and each member agreed to tackle a portion of the task he/she was assigned. After each group member got a fair share of responsibility, we agreed on the frequency with which we would be meeting to evaluate each member’s progress and set a final deadline for compiling the report. I felt that sharing responsibility among members was fair because it was done in an open forum allowing each member to air their views. Besides, none of the members raised issue after the sharing of responsibilities. I was assigned to tackle four parts of the group task: marketing analysis, environmental analysis, and company analysis and control procedures.  I was contented with tackling such tasks exhaustively. Finally, after every member had got his or her portion of execution, we further held a general discussion in which we reviewed all the topics comprising our group work to ensure that every person understands his/her role and the content required. Besides, we planned to hold a group discussion every Friday after classes before we departure for home. The weekly discussion was aimed at each member's burning issues with regard to our report work.

Week 3: developing a plan  

In the third week I went through my allocated task portion and distributed throughout the allotted period, after which we were supposed to meet to compile the progressive report. In my task, I planned much of the work to be done in the early days to avoid last minute rush. I set my primary task objective in delivering excellent work before deadline. Besides, I had short term milestone, which involved the evaluation of performance after completing each task segments to determine whether I have delivered the desired work within my planned timeframe or not. Whenever I identified some mistakes, I would work it out before proceeding to the task segment. For instance, in my first phase, I worked on environment analysis, but after completing I realized I had not captured legal factors in my report, hence I had to fine-tune that bit before proceeding to market analysis which was my nest task portion.  On the same note, I would gather the problematic parts of my task over the week and presented them to the group members on each Friday for discussion in our weakly meeting. 

I maintained the quality of work by basing my argument on facts rather than opinion. I obtained my data from most recent and peer-reviewed sources to ensure the authenticity of the information given in my report. I referenced every source I obtained by data immediately to ensure that each information in my report matches its source perfectly. After completing a task portion I a proofread it to check for a grammatical error before I forget what the sections were arguing about. I kept revising the tutor's instructions to ensure I am working within the study's scope, and I do not deliver too little or too much content than it is required.

The report's development was so tasking to me since I had to balance it with my home chores and other school duties. To ensure a smooth flow of my activities, I devised a timetable that allotted two hours every weekday to my report's research. To manage my report, I was forced to chop a large portion of my leisure time and assigned it to my report's research. Besides, I never assumed the value of every minute and thus any free time I got I invested it into performing one or two things regarding my report. Lack enough, I did not have to attend classes during the weekend, so I devoted most of my weekend working on my report.

Week 4: turning in a progress report

After working on my report continuously for about two weeks, I met the other team members on week four to evaluate our progress in the report to identify where we have deviated from the requirements. In progress report turning...