Test of belbin team role:
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them. http://www.belbin.com/rte.asp?id=8
I can see all my classmates are being seriously in doing their personal team role test, Belbin Self-Perception Inventories. This is a test to identify the role that you play in a team. They can be divided into nine roles. The strengths and allowable weaknesses of each role will incorporate in a team. A team will become success when the members’ characteristics are balance. This test will give us a clear understanding of ourselves.
However, the test is not easy; the questions are difficult to understand. Most of us were trying to get a brief explanation through asking from the lecturer. We took about 30 minutes to finish the test and are excited for the results.
We had been categorized into different group of role based on the results of us. We are surprised that we can’t find the role of shaper from a sample of ….. students. Then, we tried to match up the characteristics of each role in response to the introduction and explanation of role from lecturer. This gets us to know that why each role become important and how the roles will be worked in a team. Moreover, we can verify whether the role’s characteristic is consistent with your personal behavioral strengths and weaknesses.
Furthermore, we had a discussion to find out the similarities of group member based on the roles and explain it. This activity is to make sure we can get a brief perception to the roles and understand it. Besides that, we had realized that how and who we need in forming and selecting a group member.
Since there are nine roles in a team, they should have their own strengths and weaknesses. So, the team members must tolerate to their weaknesses in order to harmoniously work together. Besides that, they cannot be nine members of same role in a team. It means they cannot be nine resource investigators or shapers in a team. For example, resource investigators are well to help the project in finding resources to support it; they are poor in planning the project.
However, there is an interesting matter occurs, that is one person can play two roles in a team. A member can be an implementer or plant in a team, it all depends on the team need or the person prefers to play.

Now, I can recognize which roles I prefer to play. My role is monitor -valuator, I am strong at analyzing and evaluating ideas that other people come up, but weak in motivate others to work.
In conclusion, even I understood the important of teamwork, I observed that I am reluctant to form a team and achieve an objective. First, it due to my personality, I prefer to work alone because it may time consuming if work in a team, a team need to discuss and coordinate. Second, I lack of motivation to work with others. It may face some problems such as argument with them, some may act like free rider, and they enjoy the reward after work done and not contribution to the work. Furthermore, I am reluctant at listening their opinions. It is a bias for them, sometime even their opinions are reliable, but I still not to accept it because I hate compliable. Lastly, I rarely to give opinions in discussion, it maybe wastes time for me to work in a team.
Since the concept of teamwork is to create synergy, it is essential for me to work in a team. Besides that, most of the jobs in company require teamwork, so I need to redress my behavior in order to survive in the company.

Presentation of Kolb’s model:
Presentation skill is a way in which an idea or scope needs to be discussed. http://www.careerride.com/Soft-Skills-presentation-tips.aspx
After a week of preparation in the coursework of Kolb model, all students are excited and ready to make a presentation today. It is a group work and presentation is carried out by each group in the form of Power Point. The number of group members will range in two to four persons. This is a change that all speakers will be improved in their presentation skills from the comments of audience or lecturer. The sequences of the group to present are decided by lecturer. Even it is not a formal presentation, the effort of the students put in the coursework are affirmative.
First, as this is a group presentation, each group members will be divide themselves to present certain part of the presentation. Before start the presentation, they will make a greeting and introduction to the audience and lecturer. Some presenters had prepared some notes in their hand in order to remember the content and make their presentation smoothly. During the presentation, they look confidently; I observed that the eye contact, body language, the volume of sound and so on that the presenters use to capture the concentration of audience. Besides that, some of them try to brief their explanation by giving example in order to enhance the understanding of audience during presentation. Furthermore, some presenters tell some jokes to attract the audience’s attraction and avoid them to get bored. Moreover, some presenters are look nervous, they keep shake their hand and some of them speak falteringly during presentation. Besides that, members will get support from members if they can’t present.
During the presentation, I can know well the whole environment and attitude of audience. The classroom is quite quiet and the audiences are concentrating the presentation. However, some of them are feeling bored, dreaming, and doing their own work such as playing the I-Phone. Even the title of presentation of each group is the same, the information through research maybe different among each group. Our knowledge will be improved in this manner. Besides that, we try to evaluate the presenters’ performance first before the comment from the lecturer. This will give us an impression of what we suppose or not to do during presentation, this kind of evaluation can enhance our presentation skill indirectly.
Lastly, the comment from lecturer is important because it will help us to mend our bad performance. He seriously advise each presenter, which mean he try to identify the weaknesses or problem of them. For example, if you do not understand the information, please not put in the Power Point slide.
In my point of view, this presentation can treat as a practice for me on how to prepare my next presentation. My comment from lecturer is moderate, which mean I still need to enhance myself. Through the comparison with others, I knew my problems in presentation, lack of confident, lack of body language, lack of eye contact and problem in pronunciation.
Since effective presentation is important, I need to take some actions or activities in order to enhance my presentations skill