🇺🇸🎤 Inauguration Day Special
Step onto the grand stage of progress! Reflect on our term's journey so far, present our learnings, and pledge fresh actions to achieve our team's vision. Let's make strides as a unified office.
Template Columns
✨ New Initiatives
Propose innovative actions to take our mission forward.
Base column: Start🚫 Retire The Policies
Identify barriers we should remove to enhance productivity.
Base column: Stop🏛️ Uphold the Traditions
Acknowledge the workflows and practices we should preserve and build upon.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Inauguration Day Special retrospective allows teams to reflect on their past performance, surface new initiatives, retire ineffective practices, and recommit to preserved traditions for achieving shared goals.
When to use this template
Use this format when your team is undergoing a milestone or quarter completion, or when some reflective decision-making and renewed clarity on actions are needed.
How to facilitate
Open the session by welcoming the team and sharing the purpose of this retrospective: reflecting on past actions and planning forward.
Introduce the three columns: ✨ New Initiatives (innovative actions), 🚫 Retire The Policies (ineffective practices), and 🏛️ Uphold the Traditions (well-working processes).
Encourage participants to reflect on the past period and brainstorm their thoughts for each column.
Allocate time to discuss contributions in each column, focusing first on ‘New Initiatives’, then discussing obstacles under ‘Retire The Policies’, and finally highlighting strengths under ‘Uphold the Traditions’.
As a group, decide on next steps based on the identified new initiatives and decide on any action plans to retire or refine policies.
Summarize the outcomes and thank the team for their participation.
Pro Tips
Encourage participants to be visionary but realistic when proposing new initiatives.
Frame 'retiring policies' positively, focusing on improvement rather than dwelling on failures.
Promote open discussions by actively listening and valuing all contributions.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to propose new initiatives?
Prompt them by focusing on challenges or opportunities the team faces, inspiring creativity by sparking dialogues about recent trends.
How to handle disagreements about retiring certain practices?
Facilitate open discussion, ensuring everyone has a chance to explain their perspective. Aim for consensus but clarify that the goal is alignment, not perfection.
At a glance
- Duration
60-90 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Use this template to run your next retrospective