🎶🤠 Stagecoach Country Music Retro
Howdy, festival-goers! Let's share our hits (successes), sour notes (challenges), and tune-ups (improvements) to ensure our next project is a chart-topper. Grab your boots and let’s create harmony!
Template Columns
🌟 Smash Hits
Highlight the big successes and standout moments that got everyone dancing to our tune.
Base column: What Went Well🎸 Sour Notes
Call out the off-beat moments or challenges that didn’t quite strike the right chord.
Base column: What Went Wrong🎵 Encore Requests
Suggest the tune-ups and improvements needed to deliver an even better performance next time.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The Stagecoach Country Music Retro allows teams to reflect and align on successes, challenges, and improvements using a fun and engaging music-festival theme.
When to use this template
Use this template after completing a project or release to celebrate achievements, identify challenges, and plan future improvements in an enjoyable format.
How to facilitate
Welcome the team with an introduction to the Stagecoach Country Music Retro theme and explain the goal of the session.
Encourage the team to share their thoughts on each column: successes (🌟 Smash Hits), challenges (🎸 Sour Notes), and improvement ideas (🎵 Encore Requests) by adding notes.
Once everyone has contributed, group similar notes together within each column and clarify them if there are duplicates or vague items.
Discuss the grouped notes starting with 🌟 Smash Hits to celebrate successes, then address 🎸 Sour Notes to understand challenges, and finish with 🎵 Encore Requests to brainstorm actionable improvements.
Prioritize the suggestions in the 🎵 Encore Requests column and assign owners or next steps to specific items.
Summarize the session by reviewing key takeaways and thanking the team for their participation.
Pro Tips
Add visual or audio elements, such as listening to short song excerpts to set the mood.
Encourage all team members to reflect on contributions from others and think about how their work harmonized.
Use the music festival theme consistently in metaphors and language to make the session memorable.
FAQ
How can I make this session lighthearted yet productive?
Encourage a fun atmosphere with the theme but ensure time is allocated effectively to the reflection and action planning stages.
What if the team struggles to think of examples for a column?
Use prompts or scenarios from the past project to trigger ideas and discussions.
At a glance
- Duration
45-60 minutes
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
Tags
Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective