Reflection on Communication and Collaboration

I want to thank all of my colleagues for their feedback, perspectives, honesty and collaboration. I wish everyone good luck in their career path of success with the learning, development and relationship building with children and their families. I have learned a great deal from all you and was able to reflect on what is important when it comes to communicating effectively, building a relationship, working together as team, giving respect, being self-aware, cultural aware, benefits of diversity and how to handle conflict in any situation. It was a pleasure working with all you and receiving the encouragement, motivation and passion to move on. I would like to stay in touch with all of you through email. My email is tammiemarion@bellsouth.net. I wish you all the best.

Five Stages of Team Development: Forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning

The group that was the hardest for me to leave was my team that I had trained in the emergency department. What made it so difficult and emotional was because we have always played as a team to meet our monthly and overall department goal. We joined together to help children and families in need and in distress. We all felt the effects of the parent’s pain and anxiety and came together to help ease the pain. Everyday was a new mission set out for us because we never knew what we going to get.  I led the team everyday on how to stay calm, work in a productive and fast paced environment while continuing to deliver respect and outstanding customer service.

There was really not a closing ritual but we all had breakfast, lunch and farewell party to anyone that leaves the team. However the department does choose another leader that can take on the responsibility to join a high performing group of people. I have no regrets on what I had experienced, but I believe that it was time to move on so that someone else can be successful and enjoy the strength, participation, and reward of helping a parent, family or child smile by the end of the day.

I imagine that I will adjourn the group of colleagues that I have formed while working on my master’s degree with ease and pleasure because we have all come together as a team to share ideas, give opinions and learn from each other. We all gave each other respect and understanding. Adjourning is closure but also a difficult time for departure after you have shared so much time with each other (Abudi, 2010). Adjourning is a essential stage of teamwork because it is the foundation of the beginning and end that helped contribute in bringing the team together to perform, go through the ups and down of success, demonstrating and revealing everyone’s strengths, understand, respect and work together to achieve their goals. Adjourning helps all team members involved see their purpose, explore their ideas and  at the end, to see how much of being a team can accomplish any mission or goal (Abudi, 2010). 

Reference

Abudi, G. (2010). The five stages of team development: A case study. Retrieved from http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.html