🩺 Team Health Check-Up
Time for a wellness visit! Let’s diagnose our team’s strengths, challenges, and areas for growth, making sure our agile heart beats strong. Ready to boost our project’s health?
Template Columns
💪 Healthy Habits
Share the healthy practices, habits, and successes that have kept our team thriving.
Base column: What Went Well🤒 Symptoms & Ailments
Discuss the issues and blockers that made our team feel under the weather.
Base column: What Went Wrong🩹 Prescriptions for Improvement
Prescribe actionable steps and ideas to help our team achieve even better health.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The Team Health Check-Up retrospective helps teams assess their strengths, identify recurring challenges, and collaboratively develop actionable ways to improve their overall functioning and wellbeing.
When to use this template
Use this format when your team needs a holistic pulse check, after a challenging sprint, or when you sense team morale, habits, or communication could use a reset.
How to facilitate
Open with a brief check-in, setting a safe and supportive tone to encourage honest sharing about team health.
Invite everyone to reflect and add notes to Healthy Habits, highlighting positive routines, wins, and things the team does well.
Move to Symptoms & Ailments, asking the team to surface any impediments, frustrations, or process issues that have affected performance or morale.
Guide the group to propose Prescriptions for Improvement, focusing on practical actions or experiments to address pain points and elevate healthy practices further.
Cluster similar notes together in each column to spot themes and patient trends.
Facilitate a team discussion to prioritize prescriptions, agreeing on immediate next steps and owners for each action.
Close with a brief round where everyone shares one thing they are hopeful for regarding team health in the upcoming sprint.
Pro Tips
Frame feedback as observations and needs rather than blame to keep discussions constructive and forward-focused.
Look for hidden strengths in the Healthy Habits column and consider how they can be leveraged to address team issues.
Use a simple voting tool in Kollabe to quickly identify top prescriptions for follow-up, keeping the focus actionable.
If sensitive topics arise, give the option for anonymous input to ensure psychological safety for all team members.
FAQ
What if team members are hesitant to share ailments or challenges?
Start with positive Healthy Habits to build trust. Remind the team this is a judgment-free zone and encourage anonymous input if needed.
How do we make sure improvement actions are actually followed up?
Assign clear owners and due dates for each prescription. Review progress on these actions at the start of the next retrospective.
Can this template be used with new teams?
Absolutely—it's a helpful way to set healthy expectations, establish habits, and catch issues early even for newly formed teams.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective