🌍👧🏾 International Day of the African Child
Let’s celebrate growth, learning, and hope! Inspired by the International Day of the African Child, reflect on how we nurture potential, overcome obstacles, and empower continuous improvement together.
Template Columns
🌱 Plant New Seeds
Share fresh ideas and actions we should start nurturing to help our team thrive.
Base column: Startâ›” Uproot Barriers
Identify practices or obstacles we should stop to ensure a fair, inclusive, and progressive journey.
Base column: Stop✨ Nurture Young Roots
Celebrate the habits and practices we should continue cultivating for ongoing growth and empowerment.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
This retrospective celebrates team growth, inclusion, and resilience, using the theme of the International Day of the African Child. Teams reflect on how to nurture new ideas, remove obstacles, and continue empowering habits for collective development.
When to use this template
This format is perfect for marking progress during significant milestones, when celebrating diversity and growth, or after overcoming key challenges as a team.
How to facilitate
Set the context by sharing the template’s inspiration and the importance of supporting team growth and potential.
Invite everyone to individually add notes under Plant New Seeds, encouraging suggestions for fresh initiatives or actions.
Guide the team to share obstacles or unhelpful practices in Uproot Barriers, focusing on barriers to fairness, inclusion, or progress.
Ask team members to contribute to Nurture Young Roots by highlighting what’s working well and should be preserved or amplified.
Review all contributions together, discuss themes, and clarify any notes for deeper understanding.
Prioritize new actions or experiments to try, and identify concrete next steps, owners, and check-in points.
Close by acknowledging contributions and emphasizing the team's ongoing journey of empowerment and learning.
Pro Tips
Encourage the team to connect their reflections to personal or team stories for deeper resonance.
Ask quieter members for their perspectives—sometimes the best seeds come from unlikely places.
Frame barriers neutrally and focus discussions on actionable change rather than blame.
Link habits in Nurture Young Roots to specific recent successes to make them more tangible.
FAQ
How can I make this retrospective feel inclusive for everyone?
Invite personal stories and acknowledge diverse perspectives. Make space for all voices by rotating who speaks or using digital anonymity.
What if the conversation about barriers becomes negative or heated?
Keep the discussion solution-focused. Remind participants that identifying barriers is about growth, not blame, and direct the team toward practical next steps.
How do I help the team move from reflection to real action?
Turn selected notes into specific tasks with owners and follow-up dates. Review these regularly in future meetings to sustain momentum.
At a glance
- Duration
40–55 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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