🏖️ Beautiful Beach Bliss
Relax under the sun and reflect on our project journey as we bask in beachy vibes. Let's uncover new treasures, wash away challenges, and ride the waves of success together. Pack your sunscreen—it's time to dive in!
Template Columns
🌊 New Tides
Propose fresh ideas and approaches you're eager to set sail with on our next adventure.
Base column: Start🚫 Washed Away
Highlight the habits or practices you'd like to leave behind like footprints in the sand.
Base column: Stop🌴 Tranquil Shores
Celebrate the consistent practices that anchor our success and deserve to stay.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Beautiful Beach Bliss retrospective encourages a relaxed, reflective review of team practices with a playful beach theme.
When to use this template
Use this format at the end of a project phase or sprint to bring focus to fostering new ideas, identifying unproductive practices, and reinforcing positive consistent actions.
How to facilitate
Introduce the purpose of the retrospective, highlighting its beach theme. Encourage a relaxed and open atmosphere for reflection.
Explain the meaning of the three columns: 🌊 New Tides (new initiatives or approaches), 🚫 Washed Away (habits to stop), 🌴 Tranquil Shores (positive practices to maintain).
Give team members 5–10 minutes to write their contributions to each column as individual notes.
Review contributions together, starting with 🌊 New Tides, then 🚫 Washed Away, and finally 🌴 Tranquil Shores. Facilitate a discussion around the themes and prioritize action if needed.
Summarize key insights and agree on next steps or changes.
Encourage participants to share any final reflections or feedback on the session itself.
Pro Tips
Create a playlist of relaxing seaside sounds for ambiance to boost engagement and enhance the thematic connection.
Prepare a simple virtual background of a beach or ask participants to set their own beach-themed profiles during the session.
Remind participants that the theme is playful yet serious in its introspection, helping balance fun and productivity.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to think of responses to the columns?
Provide examples to spark ideas, such as 'Celebrate finishing a milestone for 🌴 Tranquil Shores' and 'Overly complex workflows might go under 🚫 Washed Away.'
How can I adapt this for a larger team?
Split the team into smaller groups for initial discussions, then reconvene to share highlights collectively.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 minutes
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
Tags
Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective