🌸 Spring Garden Bloom
Step into the vibrant garden of our project! Together, let's plant seeds of improvement, weed out inefficiencies, and nurture blooms of success. A fresh start for a flourishing future!
Template Columns
🌱 New Seeds to Sow
Identify new actions and ideas to start planting for the future growth of the team.
Base column: Start🌾 Pull the Weeds
Highlight processes or behaviors that hinder success and should stop growing in our garden.
Base column: Stop🌷 Blooming Blossoms
Celebrate and nurture the positive practices and accomplishments that have helped the team thrive.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Spring Garden Bloom retrospective leverages the metaphor of garden care to identify positive practices to continue, inefficiencies to remove, and new ideas to nurture.
When to use this template
Use this template when seeking to revitalize team discussions and stimulate creativity about improvements.
How to facilitate
Welcome the team and explain the garden metaphor that connects to reviewing previous work and preparing for future growth.
Provide an overview of each column: New Seeds to Sow for fresh ideas, Pull the Weeds for removing inefficiencies, and Blooming Blossoms to celebrate successes.
Allow participants to collaboratively write their inputs for each column. Encourage thoughtful reflections.
Review each column as a team, discussing the items and consolidating similar entries for clarity.
Facilitate a discussion for prioritizing which seeds to sow first and which weeds to pull from the list.
Conclude with outlining actionable next steps based on the discussions, accompanied by assignments and timelines.
Pro Tips
Encourage participants to focus on actionable and specific items.
Use the garden metaphor to create an engaging visual theme for the session, such as floral backdrops or a botanical color palette.
Allow quiet individual brainstorming before encouraging group-wide sharing.
FAQ
What if my team doesn’t resonate with the garden metaphor?
You can adapt the narrative to another productive metaphor or use simpler framing like Team Growth Discussion.
How do we address complex issues discovered during Pull the Weeds?
Use follow-up sessions or smaller subgroup discussions to tackle heavy topics without overwhelming the retrospective.
At a glance
- Duration
45-60 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