Designer Genes
 
Reflection Questions

Note: These questions are here to turn away from the details of this rotation and toward how the lessons and strategies you’ve learned might apply in a variety of real-world situations. The focus is not to add to your writing workload as much as to give you an opportunity for some thoughtful reflection so as to incorporate any thoughts these exercises may have raised for you before you move to another task.

Provide a thoughtful response (about half a page) to the following:

  • List points you identified as problem areas in your first focus group that you wanted to improve on in this focus group, what you did differently this time, and what the result was. If the change worked, do you think it was because of the new approach, or because of something else? If the change didn’t work, why do you think it didn’t and what do you think may be another way to improve the problem?

  • List points from your focus group that went well the first time and continued to go well. Did you do anything intentionally to make those aspects go well? What can you do to ensure that in future focus groups you continue to have the same strengths? Is there a way that you can make those points even stronger?