Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/Offsite 2016-05
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These notes are from the daily retrospectives during the TPG offsite in May 2016.
Day One
[edit]Positives
[edit]- Enjoyed the space and spreading out on the couches
- Good easels
- Talking about why values are important
- Ad-hoc chartwriter support
- Happy w/Gradient discussion results
- We got outputs!
- Got to bring up "Tic-Tac-Toe of Coaching"
- Cold Water
- Learning about personal values
- Outcome (agreement) of values discussion
Deltas
[edit]- Schedule ambitious
- Missed having real breakfast
- Lack of wallspace
- Paper leads to papercuts
- No Arthur (who?)
- Being away from home
- Moar dots, in moar colors
- Digressed, over-talked each other, impatience
- Facilitator was also scribe
- Full day of intense discussions is tiring, thinking a lot, could break up w/team-building
- No clock in room
Day Two
[edit]Positives
[edit]- 4 PM wine
- Food was good
- Learned unexpected things from coaching style
- Kristen guiding through groan zone
- More conscious of over-talking
- Clock helped
- Felt good to marinate w/TPG
- Negotiation exercise was energizing
- Great effort to feed "The Axe"
- Rotating facilitation
- Varied participation formats
- Graced enjoyed people with which she partnered
Deltas
[edit]- Still hard to followup on paperwork
- Food generally had sketchy execution
- Felt less productive/tangible/did not learn how to say “no”
- Coaching Cycle convo was isolating for Max
- No real gym
- 3 days would be better/flexible
- Offsite “best practices” checklist would be useful