🏡✨ Dream Home Makeover
Imagine building your dream home! This retrospective is your blueprint for team success. Lay the foundation with improvements, remove what’s not working, and furnish with our strengths. Let’s create a place our team loves to work!
Template Columns
🛠️ Lay the Foundation
Share the key improvements we should start implementing to build a strong foundation.
Base column: Start🚪 Close the Door
Identify practices or habits we should stop doing to avoid shaky frameworks.
Base column: Stop🪑 Add the Finishing Touches
Discuss what we should continue doing to enhance our team’s work environment.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Dream Home Makeover retrospective engages the team to collectively evaluate improvements, eliminate inefficiencies, and emphasize strengths for a cohesive and high-functioning team environment.
When to use this template
Use this format when the team needs a creative and constructive way to reflect on past performance and plan improvements for the future.
How to facilitate
Set the stage by explaining the Dream Home Makeover concept and its perspective of building a synergized team environment.
Start with the 'Lay the Foundation' column, asking the team to suggest key initiatives that will strengthen and enhance how the team works together.
Move to the 'Close the Door' column and discuss which negative practices or behaviors the team should leave behind to ensure smooth operations.
Focus on the 'Add the Finishing Touches’ column to identify practices that are currently working well and should be refined and maintained.
Review the contributions to group ideas into themes and discuss them as a team.
Create actionable plans based on insights gained under each column, prioritizing tasks or changes as required.
Pro Tips
Use the analogy of building a dream house to help participants visualize their ideas more concretely.
Encourage participation by reminding the team that all suggestions are welcome.
Draw connections between contributions and outcomes to establish practical goals.
Make sure to write down specific action points derived from group discussions for future follow-up.
Start with a lighthearted housing-related icebreaker to get the team thinking creatively.
FAQ
What if we run out of time?
Focus on covering each column briefly and collect insights asynchronously if time is limited.
How can I keep discussions focused?
Use a timer for contributions, and tactfully redirect long-winded discussions to stay on prompt.
What if team members hesitate to contribute?
Break them into smaller groups briefly and have them consolidate ideas to share back.
How can we ensure follow-through on action items?
Assign responsibility and set deadlines for each actionable point created during the retrospective.
At a glance
- Duration
45 minutes
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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