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 one page) to each of the following:

• Discuss strengths and weaknesses of your third focus group in relation to the other focus groups. What areas did you improve on? What areas could use additional work?
  
  
• Conducting a focus group involves many skills that can be used in situations other than formal focus groups. Describe some of the skills you had to utilize to conduct the focus groups successfully (e.g., managing dialogue to learn about the foundation of another person’s viewpoint). How might you use those skills in other work you might encounter? Describe a situation(s) in the main area of work you are interested in doing that the skills used in conducting a focus group can be useful.