Lim, Danina Mabel M.

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Part 1: Self-Introduction Integrated with a Review of Individual Behavior Theories

Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, a 20-year-old young lady who’s full of ambitions

in life is set to turn her dreams into reality. Indeed, that’s me. I am Danina Mabel M. Lim, born

on February 10, 2001 at Chinese General Hospital in Sampaloc, Manila. This is my second year

in De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde, currently taking up BSBA Major in Human Resource

Management.

Growing up, I have always known that I acquire various abilities both intellectually and

physically, in which I inherited from my parents’ very-much wide yet unique set of genes.

Among those are my great memory skills that I got from my mother. I am a consistent honor

student from grade school up to the present, lead my batch in 2014 as the batch valedictorian,

and graduated senior high school with high honors. These have proven my skills when it comes

to memorization, comprehension, and problem solving, since I used to compete in different

competitions such as Quiz Beez, MTAP, oral communication, declamations, journalism and

many more. It makes me satisfied whenever my brain is challenged because it tends to push

myself to the limit. Meanwhile, I am also a very active student in school. I play volleyball with

my classmates to the point where we once competed as a team. I also make use of my voice as a

student leader in high school, which enhances my leadership skills to serve my school and my

community. I used to engage in leadership seminars, do community service, join various

organizations, as well as lead a student government in our school to execute platforms that would

contribute to the betterment of the school. With all these abilities that I have, I honestly
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sometimes get overwhelmed with what my purpose in life is. Nonetheless, it is never too late to

discover my purpose, while doing the things or job that I enjoy.

On the other hand, as what Carl Rogers have stated in his concept of personality, also

known as the Rogerian Concept, I consider myself as a very optimistic person. The main reason

why I always turn out to be one is because I love myself more than anybody would. The

experiences I have had encountered built a strong self-concept that I have towards myself that

made the person that I am today. In everything that I do, I always make sure that I would feel the

contentment in the end, which forms a positive mental health for myself. Moreover, I am the

type of person who usually seizes the day in whatever moments I am currently having. With the

things I can control, I always put a high trust towards myself, therefore, I tend to feel satisfied

with the outcome of the actions that I take. Through this, I become more self-aware, and

analytical enough to discern the things that I can improve in order to always exemplify optimism

over pessimism for my own personal growth. Furthermore, in relation to Holland’s Job-Fit

theory, I am one of those people who are enterprising and social. Given the abilities I mentioned,

I am very energetic, ambitious, adventurous, sociable and self-confident. I enjoy doing things

that make me convince other people, lead them to the path I am aiming, as well as doing

something that requires my leadership skills. Because I am assertive, I use it as an advantage to

do public speaking whenever I get an opportunity to do so. Being social, consequently, is a

personality that I believe is innate to me. Since my heart is close to working with people, I enjoy

participating in group activities and helping, training, healing, counseling or developing others. I

love working in teams, may that be in terms of school activities, or even jobs. It’s just that I have

a very wide range of understanding people in different aspects, and I tend to interact with people

of different races confidently and comfortably. However, whenever I am in a team, I always end
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up being the team leader who would bring the group to success as much as possible. But being

the leader comes with a big responsibility. Since I am carrying the team most of the time, I

willingly take risks that will help my team succeed.

Talking about the values that I possess, in connection with the Generational Values under

the Rokeach Value Survey, since I belong to the Generation Z, I am considered as Nexters who

is very confident in everything that I do. I always walk with my chin up, and face whatever life

throws at me. I am very self-reliant ever since. I became self-sufficient at 14 by being a working

student in high school to suffice my needs personally and academically. Through that

experience, I adopted the idea of being financially successful in my own way, because I learned

how to value money at such a young age. I also understand how my values work for me by being

loyal to myself, as well as to the relationships I have and with the other people I interact with. It

teaches me how integrity is proportionally relevant to that of loyalty, in which will lead to a

higher level of self-respect. And since self-respect is the terminal goal that I aim most of the

time, I need to maintain my instrumental goal of being honest in order for me to achieve that

goal, according to the Classifying Values category. Not only that, but since I am a very

competent person, I always aim to have a sense of accomplishment in all aspects, therefore, I

have to stay ambitious all the time so that I can certainly attain that goal in spite of all the

circumstances I encounter along the way.

Now that I have shared my abilities, personalities, and values with you, things will not

work out with just simply acquiring them. There has to be certain motivations that come along

with them. Basing it on Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory, before I start on doing a specific

activity, I set my mind into believing that I am capable of performing a certain task. No matter

how hard it gets to be, I am confident enough to execute it, and become persistent despite the
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hurdles that might come with it. And due to the fact that I am confident in obtaining that goal, I

am assured that I can generate a higher performance more than what I think I can. However, not

all the time I become fortunate with what I do, particularly in school. There are also days that

things don’t turn out the way I want to. But in order to outweigh the bad with the good, I always

make sure to choose to practice what I do or learn, until it becomes perfect, considering that I am

a very perfectionist individual. I will seek out to other people dealing with the same matter as

mine, so that I can gain some ideas and confidence as to how I will apply it to my own task.

Most especially, I always put my mental health first. I have to make sure that I am emotionally

prepared to complete my task. Because whenever I am not in my best state, I tend to get

overwhelmed and let stress get into me, which results to a massive procrastination and bad

outcome. Hence, I do these sets of motivation for me to achieve my goals. Lastly, my strength of

motivation merely relies on the weight of expectation of the outcome. For instance, I get to work

so hard for my class work if I know that I will obtain a high grade for it in response to my effort.

The more that I expect too much to get the goal that I desire, the more that I put determination

and effort into it. As of my track record, all of the hardships I have done were paid off with the

grades and other compensation I received, in which, going back to my personality trait, makes

me become very satisfied and content.

Abridging all the concepts of my behavior, I came to a realization of how unique of a

person I am. I can do a lot efficiently, which makes me a trustworthy individual. Be that as it

may, these are just proofs that I am a very worthy person and that there are still opportunities that

await me so that I can develop and hone my skills and abilities that will eventually contribute to

my personal growth. Hence, I conclude that each concept is vital in terms of making decisions

that will help me reach my goals.

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Part 2: Group Development Model

Upon learning and understanding the two models of group development, I was able to

discern some facts in each of them. Starting off with the Five-stage model developed by Bruce

Tuckman, in which I learned that these linear stages could go in vice versa, depending on the

situations that may influence the team along with the communications strategies that they utilize.

Through analyzing its general observations, content, process, and feelings issues, it makes a

clearer view on how people deal with such issues from a seemingly impossible conflict to a

resolvable matter. However, there are some teams that can stall in a stage and still never fully

notice and realize their potential. This is why communications strategies play a very important

role in order for the teams to maximize their engagement with each other to make their projects

go smoothly and efficiently.

The Punctuated Equilibrium Model by Connie Gersick, on the other hand, is basically

understanding complex organizational changes. I learned in this model that people in a team

experience long periods of stability as the go along with their activity, however, punctuated by

relatively short bursts of fundamental change. A challenge that breaks through the systematic

inertia and shakes up the underlying organizational structure in place usually triggers change.

Because of this, the team has to come up with new structures that are adaptive to change and are

better aligned with current realities. What I also depicted in this model is that the group can

adopt the five-stages model and repeatedly cycle through the storming and performing stages,

considering the revolutionary changes taking place during short transitional windows. This opens

an opportunity for the team to enhance their creativity and innovation as a group.
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If I were to distinguish which model reflect more real-life experiences based on what I’ve

gone through as a student, I would probably choose Bruce Tuckman’s Five-Stage Model. To be

specific, I was once in class when we had to be grouped for an activity. At the forming stage,

people in my team were asking questions with each other to look for leadership and authority.

We threw questions at all members to interact and get to know each other. At the storming stage,

since our individual personalities emerge as we get to know one another, conflict and

competition started to arise. Back-to-back objections on team goals were formed, as well as

subgroups occur to overpower the agreement. To overcome it, we had to get through those

obstacles and accept our individual differences. We started focusing on what matters the most,

which is our goal in our class activity. We worked on conflicting ideas on team tasks and goals.

Once we resolved the conflicts, we proceeded to the norming stage, in which consensus

developed around who is or are the leaders are going to be, as well as each member’s role. In our

case, I became the leader. I appointed everyone’s roles in the team, as well as organize and

summarize our thoughts and ideas in order to come up with our final plan to accomplish our

goal. Since there’s someone that leads the team now, our team performance increased since

everybody in the team learns to cooperate and started to focus on our goal. After we established

the consensus and cooperation within the team, we became so organized and have a stable

structure, we were so ready to commit to our class activity in the performing stage. Lastly, our

team’s goals have been successfully accomplished, therefore, we had to wrap up our final task

and document the outcomes. Then happened the disband of our team as the class activity ends.

This circumstance made me learn how better communication and a willingness to work

out problems and disagreements can generate a great impact towards the success of a team.
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Therefore, this model is what I think reflects real-life experiences more, and besides people in

the team can go back and stall in a stage as long as they need.