Accountability and Reflection in the Workplace Training Notes and Questions
Overview:
Self-Reflection: The process of looking inward to examine our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Organizational Reflection: refers to considering how work-related issues affect one’s ability to achieve positive outcomes (Schon 1983).
Self-reflection -
Promotes self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness, which are essential skills in effective communication and conflict resolution.
It helps us better understand ourselves, our strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
By engaging in self-reflection, we can identify patterns of behavior, biases, and beliefs that may influence our interactions with others.
It helps us better understand ourselves, our strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
Organizational Reflection
Encourages adaptability to changing environments, fostering a mindset of continuous learning.
It may improve team cohesion
Promotes awareness of leadership behaviors impacting team relationships.
Enables all members of the team to be better understood
Positive Implications of Reflection:
Performance:
improves performance by allowing people to draw lessons from their past experiences (Anseel et al. 2009)
take responsibility for their past performance (Ellis et al. 2006)
feel more confident about achieving their goals (Di Steforno et al. 2014)
Health and well-being:
reflecting on the positive aspects of one’s job helps people positively reframe their work situation ( Fritz & Sonnentag 2005)
Employees who engage in end-of-workday reflection exercises that focus on the positive events that happened to them reported fewer physical and mental complaints(Bono et al. 2013)
Relationships and social influence:
can make people more helpful towards others.
helping others can increase the salience of one’s identity as a capable, caring contributor.
It can also encourage more social interactions and behaviors
Question 1: Do you believe reflection(personal and organizational) can have negative implications on performance, health and well-being, and relationships and social connections?
Question 2: Can you list how reflecting has (personally or organizationally) impacted your performance, health and well-being, and relationships and social connections?