End of Year Retro
End of Year Retro is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Run this like you would any other 60 mins retro This template should be given to the team prior to the meeting so that they come prepared.
- Start For Free End of Year Retro Retrospective What is this activity?
- This template is deigned to allow the team and individuals on the team to reflect on the past year.
- Set a goal for the individual and the team.
- No limit Template created by: Katie Chait-Kretchmer Has been used 5 times Create Free Board End of Year Retro Template What successes did we have this year?
- Set at least one goal for the upcoming year Set a goal you'd like to achieve in this upcoming year.
- Set a goal of how you'd like to see the team improve throughout this upcoming year.
- Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Run this like you would any other 60 mins retro This template should be given to the team prior to the meeting so that they come prepared.
- Create Free Board Create Free Board Check the list of templates created by our users []
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Prompts to use +
Start For Free End of Year Retro Retrospective What is this activity?
This template is deigned to allow the team and individuals on the team to reflect on the past year.
Set a goal for the individual and the team.
No limit Template created by: Katie Chait-Kretchmer Has been used 5 times Create Free Board End of Year Retro Template What successes did we have this year?
Set at least one goal for the upcoming year Set a goal you'd like to achieve in this upcoming year.
Set a goal of how you'd like to see the team improve throughout this upcoming year.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: End of Year Retro. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free End of Year Retro Retrospective What is this activity?; This template is deigned to allow the team and individuals on the team to reflect on the past year.; Set a goal for the individual and the team.; No limit Template created by: Katie Chait-Kretchmer Has been used 5 times Create Free Board End of Year Retro Template What successes did we have this year?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: EasyRetro. (1 source observed, including EasyRetro.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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