People also ask Why do people find research difficult? It is normal that things progress slowly, in fits and starts, that you sometimes get discouraged, and often procrastinate. There are several reasons why real research is hard:?It must be new, so you need to find things ideas that haven't been tried out, and solutions that no one else saw yet.

To ensure your team meets their research objectives on time, implement a structured game plan that fosters collaboration, accountability, and productivity. Establish clear, measurable goals and milestones to align team efforts and maintain focus. Encourage open communication through regular meetings, updates, and feedback loops to swiftly address challenges and share progress. Schedule recurring check-ins to monitor adherence to standards, timelines, and budget allocations. Additionally, define roles and responsibilities, allocate resources efficiently, and leverage project management tools to track progress and identify potential roadblocks.

For bench research or wet research the current federal grant success rate is about 9 percentile when it comes to NIH and no more than 4 percentile when it comes US DOD. This means that a maximum of ~10-11 submitted applications out of every 100 will be funded and that limits all basic innovation. Budgets are increasingly smaller and reviewers demand more of everything. In other words no risk.

It is very crucial to maintain the standards and timelines in the competetive world, if one striving to achieve reputation. In certain scenarios, the standards also keep evolving and setting higher bar with the progress of time. The higher standards lead to reporting of new discoveries, new hypothesis and breakthroughs which are critical for transformational development. The team lead plays a critical role in both maintaining or developing new standards by team members. All the team members should have a unified objectives and focus to meet the goals in defined time period. This requires an allocation of work components based on the skills an individual possess and well set goals one need to deliver within a targeted period.