During this week, we able to find 20 panels for our focus group discussion. We hope that we can obtain reliable data from our panelist, so we found a lot of different people who live in different kind of background. Both of them come from very different background such as culinary base, Food science and nutrition base, and so on. During the Focus group discussion, there is different role of position in it such as data entry, interviewer, and photographer. Our lecturer required us to take turn in different position so that we can learn from how to start a proper focus group discussion and proceed smoothly in reality. Hence, this is a really precious and appreciative experience for us to learn from in the campus.
In term of this experience, there is some difficulty and challenges that we faced in the focus group discussion. Sometimes, the panels that we found is not that talkative and can't really provide us a reliable and informative data to us. The advice provided by our lecturer which is encourage our panel to talk more is one of the ways to solve the problem. However, we should make sure that don't give too much hint to the panel and cause them mislead by us and bring to the answer that what we want. This is a wrong way to conduct focus group discussion.
Beside this, finding a proper venue to conduct focus group discussion is not an easy task also. We only get one week preparation to prepare our focus group discussion included with finding panels, finding venue, and preparing questionnaire. Although the whole procedure is quite rush and panic, we still able to calm our self and make sure every single step is on the track. All of the panel was invited by us will receive some mystery gift from us to thank for their coming.
From this week , I'm able to improve my Communication Skill with bunch of people. I need to communicate appropriately in various setting and mode to ensure that the whole discussion is smooth and avoid awkward moment happen in the discussion like silence in discussion. In addition, I'm also improve my Thinking and problem solving skill as I able to solve some problem and difficulty while facing in focus group discussion.
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