🌞✈️ Vacation 2025 Getaway
Pack your bags! Let's reflect on our project as if we're planning the perfect 2025 vacation—celebrating refreshing moments, learning new travel hacks, spotting missed essentials, and dreaming about our next adventure together!
Template Columns
🍹 Favorite Destinations
Share the project highlights as relaxing vacation spots where everything went smoothly.
Base column: Liked🎒 Travel Lessons
Note the insights and skills picked up on our journey, like learning smart travel tricks.
Base column: Learned🏖️ Missed Essentials
Spot what was missing in our trip—what essentials should we pack for smoother travels next time?
Base column: Lacked🌍 Dream Destinations
Describe team aspirations or features we wish we could’ve visited or experienced on this project adventure.
Base column: Longed ForAbout this template
The Vacation 2025 Getaway retrospective helps teams reflect playfully on a project by comparing it to planning a dream vacation, encouraging celebration, learning, and forward-looking collaboration.
When to use this template
Use this format to inject energy into a routine retrospective or when your team needs a creative perspective to discuss successes, learnings, and future aspirations.
How to facilitate
Welcome the team and introduce the vacation theme, encouraging everyone to approach reflections as travel companions planning an epic trip.
Review the four columns and their travel-inspired prompts so everyone understands the metaphor and what to share in each area.
Ask participants to add their thoughts to each column: share highlights as favorite vacation spots, jot down new lessons as travel hacks, spot missing essentials, and dream up future destinations.
Allow time for everyone to read through and react to each other's notes, using comments or reactions to spark discussion.
Facilitate a group conversation, starting with highlights and lessons, moving to missed essentials, then exploring dream destinations. Encourage storytelling around each point.
Work together to identify concrete action items based on missed essentials and dream destinations, deciding which improvements or aspirations to prioritize next cycle.
Close by summarizing insights and celebrating team wins, perhaps ending with a fun team travel poll (real or imaginary!) to keep the energy high.
Pro Tips
Lean into the travel metaphor—it makes difficult conversations lighter and can uncover unique insights.
Let team members share photos or travel stories as icebreakers to help everyone get into the mood.
Use visual travel cues in your Kollabe board (like background images or emojis) to deepen engagement.
Encourage quieter team members to contribute via chat or written notes if speaking up feels intimidating.
FAQ
What if someone struggles to connect project work to the vacation/travel theme?
Remind the team that this is a playful exercise—the metaphor is meant to spark creative thinking, not to be taken literally. Invite teammates to choose any vacation or trip (even a daytrip!) that feels relevant.
How do we turn 'Dream Destinations' into actionable next steps?
After discussing aspirations, prompt the team to identify priorities and what’s achievable for the next project iteration. Focus on one or two inspiring ideas to turn into action items.
What if the conversation goes off-topic with real vacation plans?
Use side conversations as relationship-building moments, but gently steer focus back to the retrospective theme when needed. Having time-boxed agenda items helps maintain flow.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
4 columns
- Base Format
Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For
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