Focus on Specificity

• Try to question the brief or your initial question by challenging every part. List as many elements as you can, find characteristics, define areas of interest. List places, people, experiences that are related and can be explored.
• Cluster your findings

Forming a good question is often the most difficult part of the planning process. This is because the exact language of the question frames the rest of the project. Most researchers do this step repeatedly as they change their question in light of previous research and other cons...

• Goals and objectives should be clearly defined for staffers.
• Workload should be equitably distributed to avoid resentment from staffers who feel they have to carry poor-performing team members.
• Consider both individual and group incentives to promote the...