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Reflections

INTRODUCTION

The four-day residential has been a creative, interesting, and challenging experience. It definitely made me take advantage of my abilities but on the other hand clearly forced me to focus on my weaknesses (Drucker, 1999, p.189). In my opinion, inside a team, a disciplined person is the kind of character who seizes the opportunity to talk with other members of the team, to listen carefully to their views and to be mild enough to exchange ideas thoroughly, in order to overcome any kind of obstacles (1, www.emeraldinsight.com). Residential was a painstakingly learning process. It constituted an irreplaceable motive to indulge into self-regulation.

SELF AWARENESS - SELF MANAGEMENT


The road to success and effectiveness is defined by the knowledge of one's strong and weak aspects. A reliable way of learning about ourselves besides regrouping and reviewing our thoughts and ideas is the use of self evaluation process and appropriate techniques. The experience of the residential self-identification process was important for me to identify personal aspects and guidelines of behavior. When we arrived and the teams were announced to us, I got biased against my teammates (1, www.emeraldinsight.com) because of their lack of cooperation skills and creative proposals which could threaten the success of our business plan creation. As a result I adopted a totally wrong and inflexible approach (Cameron, Whetten, 2004, p.251) that made me seem completely reluctant to contribute to the first day assignment. Through this inflexible and somehow reluctant stance I soon realized that solving different problems depends on developing contacts and communicating with others. Friction is averted and success is achieved when you see all options and find the courage to clarify goals, to work on pressure and shape the team's strategy. Lack of cooperation, series of disagreements and quarrels do not lead to success either when it is about the presentation of a paper or...