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The Easter Egg Retrospective

The Easter Egg Retrospective is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
PairsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Start For Free The Easter Egg Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?
  2. Has been used 73 times Create Free Board The Easter Egg Retrospective Template Have you ever got as a present an Easter egg in a surprising way?
  3. Here your team can share new knowledge, facts, or insights.
  4. Have you ever broken an Easter Egg accidentally?
  5. Here your team can share some Mistakes, rash, or careless behavior.
  6. Here your team can share the hurdles, obstacles.
  7. Here your team can share some general ideas for improvements.
  8. Create Free Board How to conduct this activity To break the ice and start to warm up.
  9. We recommend starting this activity by asking the participants to share some of their good memories from Easter Time.
Live facilitator

Run this exercise live

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Prompts to use +

Start For Free The Easter Egg Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?

Has been used 73 times Create Free Board The Easter Egg Retrospective Template Have you ever got as a present an Easter egg in a surprising way?

Here your team can share new knowledge, facts, or insights.

Have you ever broken an Easter Egg accidentally?

Here your team can share some Mistakes, rash, or careless behavior.

Here your team can share the hurdles, obstacles.

Run this with your AI assistant +

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: The Easter Egg Retrospective. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free The Easter Egg Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?; Has been used 73 times Create Free Board The Easter Egg Retrospective Template Have you ever got as a present an Easter egg in a surprising way?; Here your team can share new knowledge, facts, or insights.; Have you ever broken an Easter Egg accidentally?. 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.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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