Personal log

Why to use?

Your personal log is the place where you keep track of your reflections on both the innovation process and the collaboration process. Writing down - or otherwise explicating - your reflections will help you remember them. 

Reflection is in part analysis and h

The log helps you to remember your reflections and to avoid   

Working consistently with the log will has more advantages:

• It provides a very big help when writing up the individual learning report in the end of the course

• It considerably increases your chance of performing well at the oral exam

• Consistency greatly improves your ability to pinpoint the important events and decisive moments when analyzing the dynamics of both the innovation process and the collaboration process

NOTE: You are encouraged to also make group log.

When to use?

The short answer is "Whenever critical/significant or just interesting incidents occur in the team work process". 

In practice it will probably work, if you write a personal log after each team sesseion or at least once a week. 

How to use?

In principle a log can take any form that works for you, but a structure for the process could be:

1. Pick a critical/significant incident (positive or problematic)

2. Analyse the situation and your role/behaviour, what is your understanding of the inner and outer dynamics. (Reflective Practice as described below can work as a model for this). 

3. What actions/intentions would you bring forth upon this insight to stimulate the positive aspects and your learning objectives, what is my nearest developmental zone 

Reflective practice

A reflective model like Schöns Reflective Practice model provides a structure for reflection on incidents in your team work:

• Description: What happened? Give a description.

• Feelings: What were you thinking or feeling at the time? Have those feelings changed?

• Evaluation: What was good about the experience? What was bad? Give a subjective judgement. 

•  Analysis: What sense can you make of the situation? Explore the details and the why's of your judgements. 

• Conclusion: What can you learn from the experience? What can you conclude from your individual response? What else could you have done?

• Action Plan: If it happens again, what would you do?

Or on a more personal level based on Peter Pappas' Taxonomy of Reflection:

• Remember: What did I do?

• Understand: What was important about it?

• Apply: Where could I use this again?

• Analyze: Do I see patterns in what I did?

• Evaluate: How well did I do?

• Create: What should I do next?

Where can you learn more?

http://www.ottoscharmer.com/sites/default/files/TU2_Chapter8.pdf

http://www1.wfh.org/publication/files/pdf-1245.pdf