Self Reflection Report

Self- Reflection
When reflecting on the development and progress of my communication and teamwork skills throughout the semester, it is clear that I have made a significant improvement in these skills. This improvement can be demonstrated through comparing the results of the Everest simulations. For example, the results of the first Everest simulation, found in appendix A, reveal poor communication and teamwork skills, because I did not reach any of my individual goals, achieved a 0 and therefore, failed the simulation. In the first simulation, we experienced quite a few of the disadvantages of group decision making such as satisficing and groupthink. Satisficing is the tendency to seek a decision that is ‘good enough’ rather than to push on in pursuit of other possible solutions. Our experience of satisficing can be seen through the ways in which we made our decisions very quickly,
In order to pass the simulation this time, we decided to place a focus on improving our communication by communicating our individual goals to each other, so that we could properly devise a plan of how to approach the simulation and achieve as many of these goals as possible. I believe that my communication was a lot better in the second Everest simulation because at each camp, before we made the decision to continue on or stay at the camp, I would ask questions like, “how is everyone’s health?” or “does anyone’s individual goals require them to stay at this base camp?.” Asking questions such as these, really helped instigate communication amongst all team members and largely contributed to passing the simulation, because we could then decide whether we needed to stay at a camp because someone’s health was at risk, or if someone’s individual goals required them to stay at a specific