Working on the project proposal has enabled me to improve as a better team member. As my team members (Joyce and Inn Zheng) and I embark on this long journey, we met with several challenges.
First Challenge:
First, we had to come up with an issue in Singapore and the proposed solutions to help resolve it. Our initial plan was to target the issue of rising cost of living in Singapore, with specific areas such as Healthcare, Medical costs and Daily necessities.
However, as we proceeded with our plan, we realised that our scope was much too wide and proceeding any further would result in an 'overdose'. Hence we narrowed it down to the issue of Rising cost of Daily Necessities in Singapore.
As we narrowed our scope to only one aspect, we then had to brainstorm for more solutions targeting this particular area. I am proud to say that our group had excelled in coming up with the proposed solutions as our ideas were practical and insightful, due to the extensive research we had done. We came together and discussed each solution in point-form during the meetings. This was immensely helpful when we delegated each solution-segment amongst ourselves. Each of us only had to re-organise the points and word them properly, which greatly improved our productivity.
Second Challenge:
We had little problems conducting our primary research. Our surveys held results that were favourable to our argument. However, we were unable to secure an interview with a Social Work professor.
In our email request for an interview, we did not include the deadline for a response email. This could have resulted in confusion on the professor's part as he would not know when to reply and find our request to be non-urgent. After consulting our tutor, we quickly sent a follow-up email and included a specific date for him to inform us of his response. Regrettably, till the night before our proposal was due, there was no response and we did not manage to secure an expert opinion regarding our proposal.
On hindsight, we could have sourced for more candidates for our interview. This would prepare us better in the event we did not manage to get the candidate we wanted, as one expert opinion is better than none. This experience will undoubtedly prepare us in our future projects that require interviews from specific personnel, as we now have a better understanding on the framework and procedure to go about doing it.
Conclusion:
Overall, I had an enjoyable experience with my team members. Being Life Science students, they were familiar with the steps to develop a proposal and were of great help throughout this process as I had not drafted an official proposal before. Joyce and Inn Zheng are really dedicated team members and they never fail to bring joy to our meetings. I would like to thank them for their patience and understanding towards me and I had learnt many things from them. I would also like to say sorry to them for bringing them trouble on the day we were to submit our proposals due to my personal issues.
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