🥗🌱 Fresh Spinach Day Delight
Let’s nourish our teamwork with the freshness of spinach! Celebrate healthy growth, prune away blockers, and plant seeds for future success in this green-powered retrospective.
Template Columns
🌱 Plant New Leaves
Suggest fresh actions and healthy habits to start for a thriving team.
Base column: Start🥀 Wilted Leaves to Compost
Identify outdated practices and blockers to stop, so our garden (team) grows strong.
Base column: Stop🍃 Keep the Greens Growing
Highlight sustaining habits and fruitful actions we should continue to nurture.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Fresh Spinach Day Delight retrospective helps teams reflect on healthy growth, remove unhelpful practices, and plant new ideas for ongoing success with a green garden analogy.
When to use this template
Choose this format when you want a fresh, positive lens on team improvement—especially after a period of change or when healthy habits and innovation need a boost.
How to facilitate
Kick off by introducing the spinach garden theme to create an open and growth-oriented mindset.
Invite each team member to add thoughts to the three columns: new habits to plant, outdated blockers to compost, and strengths to keep growing.
Set aside focused time for everyone to read, group, and discuss the notes in each column together.
Facilitate a collaborative conversation around which new actions to prioritize, which blockers must be addressed, and how to sustain current strengths.
Agree as a team on 1-2 concrete next steps or experiments inspired by your discussion.
Wrap up by celebrating a healthy team dynamic and assigning owners for action items.
Pro Tips
Use playful garden analogies or visuals to make abstract ideas more concrete and memorable.
Encourage quieter voices to share by using a round-robin or chat features before discussing aloud.
Prompt the team with recent examples or stories if discussion feels slow or surface-level.
Review action items from your last retro to cross-reference growth areas and patterns.
FAQ
What makes this different from a standard Start/Stop/Continue retro?
The Fresh Spinach Day Delight applies a unique, energizing garden metaphor that makes the conversation more engaging and approaches growth and change positively.
How do we keep the discussion actionable and not just aspirational?
Guide each brainstorm towards specific, tangible actions and revisit them in future retros to track their impact and ensure follow-through.
What if team members struggle to come up with ideas for a column?
Seed the conversation with prompts, celebrate small wins, and remind the team that small improvements are just as important as sweeping changes.
At a glance
- Duration
30–45 min
- Team Size
3-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Use this template to run your next retrospective