Team Reflection Report
1. General Reflections
Fill in the table below with your team’s answers and reflections
Name 3-5 considerations your team discussed in
relation to Team Culture Map that you’ve got
Name cultures that you chose to explore with your
team and briefly motivate why
If you used the option of Team’s Own Mission, briefly
describe the mission you created for your team and
what are the benefits of this mission
Briefly describe how did you share tasks and
responsibilities among your team members
Explain how different communication channels
impacted your teamwork (online, face-to-face, chats,
etc)
Name 1-3 communication issues that you faced in your
team (if any), how did you manage them?
Name the ground rules that your team managed to
follow during the whole assignment period. Which
ground rules were not followed? Why?
Name 1-3 most challenging situations in your team
during the whole assignment period and explain how
did your team cope with them
We talked about how we have different views and personalities in our group, and we need to respect
that. We said we should remember to give both positive and negative feedback if we give feedback,
but we should take the other person’s preferences into consideration first.
We came to the conclusion that if anyone ran into a problem or had an issue with something, they
should raise it with the others, and not try to avoid or bury it. We also concluded it was important for
everyone to keep to the time plan.
American (USA, Central and South America), South-East Asian, Western European.
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Split the missions for equal workload.
It is difficult to do work in a facebook chat with so many people (because you can’t see if people are
following you or not), but it works fine for scheduling and sharing files. Meeting face to face is
difficult when we are so many, but it is easier to do the work that way.
Hard to get contact with the whole group (but it worked to talk with one person separately). We also
focused on our own work outside of the face-to-face meetings. Another problem with group chats is
that no one thinks they are the best to answer a question, so nobody answers.
Communicate problems - don’t be silent if something goes wrong!
Respect people's personalities when giving feedback.
Help each other. If somebody fails something, we should all support them.
We didn't have many issues, or severe issues, but scheduling a meeting with so many people was
difficult, and in the end we didn’t require everyone to be there, because the time didn’t fit everyone. It
was difficult to get an overview of who was supposed to do what. Communication was a problem
 though.

On which stage of Team development do you see your We would say we are a working group, because we haven't worked that much together that we have
team in the end of this assignment (according to entered the storming/pseudo team phase.
Katzenbach and Smith model)? Motivate your answer

Name 2-3 ways how your team provided inclusion of We made a group chat with everyone and have all our notes in google docs. Also, our working
your team members into the entire process language is English.

What would you do differently if your team has to Wouldn’t take a selfie next time. Assuming that the project had not been handed out during the exam
accomplish these missions again? period, we would have liked to start earlier, or at least started planning earlier.

2. Missions Evaluation
Together with your team reflect on the points below in relation to each mission you took for this assignment.
Ps. Delete the mission which you haven’t taken, so that you get more space in the table for your reflections.

Mission 1. Three fikas - Mission 2. “Find a Life Mission 3. Getting a job in Mission 4. Critical incidents
Three interviews Advisor” Challenge another country? Analysis

Which culture(s) did United States. Singapore. Germany, Great Britain South America England, Mexico, Colombia
you explore in each (Bolivia, …..., …... )
mission

Number of team 2 2 3 7
members assigned to
each mission

Level of challenge that 4. Two exchange students
your team had in this were easy to find since I
mission from 1-10 already knew them from
where 10 is the highest before. The difficult part
level of challenge would be analysing the
(briefly motivate this answers and deciding on a
number) critical incident.
5. It was not hard to find
4 - It was easy to find a
potential life advisor and a
time to meet. Taking a selfie
was however very
challenging: I suck at it, my
camera is broken, I hate
doing it and the “life
advisor” felt very
3.- It was quite easy to find 3 - It was not a difficult task by
people with the cultures we itself, but it was not trivial to
were interested in, which get people to meet and work
makes the interviews go quickly.
quite smoothly. More
challenge part could be
discussing and analyzing the
culture clashes for mission
 exchange students but harder
to find someone that been to
the cultures that we chose.
uncomfortable with it. 4.
Taking a selfie with a
stranger on a plane was too
much for me in that moment
and I prefered talking to him
and learning more about his
cultural obstacles than
annoying him with a selfie
(especially because he didn’t
seem like he would allow
me to take one with him).

How many interviews 3 interviews:
did you have in each Female exchange student in
mission? Briefly give a Singapore, friend from before.
profile of your Female exchange student in
interviewees/people you the US, friend from before.
talked to, and how did Female exchange student in
you find them Singapore, we take the same
class.
1 person from Germany, a 3 person from South
KTH faculty member who America. They are people
has offered to help me we know, one of them is
before. student at KTH.
2 persons from Great
Britain, a PhD student at
Imperial who is a friend of
mine, and an Indian
consultant who I met on the
plane.

Name 3-5 things you US - americans are very
discovered/learned social and outgoing which can
about culture of your be difficult for people who are
interest more reserved.
Singapore - didn’t know their
culture is so influenced by the
chinese culture.
Singapore- one thing I
discovered was that they don't
discuss as much as we here in
Sweden. So apparently they
had harder to do discussions
in class.
Germans are more
spontaneous about
socialising, and it is
common practise to invite
neighbours over when you
meet them. Giving negative
feedback in England is
perceived as impolite and
people in a whole are
focused on mutual
wellbeing.
The system of CV and
personal letter seems not be
the most effective way to
find a job. People usually
preferences use their
contacts for job-searching.
It is common to have personal
relationships with coworkers
in south america.
Not all cultures value job
performance as highly.
It is common to act
contradictory to what the
theories say about your
country. People’s behaviours
cannot be fully explained by
these theories.

Explain how each To have understanding and It is helpful to talk to people Talking to people from It was helpful to discuss the
mission contributed to knowledge about different from the target culture who cultures different from one’s theories with the group,
Intercultural cultures and situations that
Competence may occur while studying
development and abroad is beneficial if
personal growth of your someone has plans on
team members studying/working abroad or if
someone will work or do an
assignment with an exchange
student. To be able to
understand other people’s
motives and reasons is
beneficial for personal growth
and success.
have lived in Sweden for a
while, because they can tell
you what they have learnt
and you can learn from their
mistakes. Also, it was
interesting to start sensing
cultural differences when
meeting unknown people
and try to feel what
questions are appropriate
and which might insult the
other person.
Personal growth: I took a
selfie, which I consider an
achievement. Talking to
strangers makes one wiser.
own gives a refreshing new instead of sitting at home with
outlook on the world. South the homework, and also to
American culture relies very have “real world examples”.
heavily on interpersonal We also learnt something
meetings and connections, about the effects of being
even when it comes to positive.
encounters with strangers.
This is a quite stark contrast
to Swedish culture where
you rely on professional
accolades and documented
performance.