Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/Offsite 2016-05

The Team Practices Group (TPG) was dissolved in 2017.

These notes are from the daily retrospectives during the TPG offsite in May 2016.

Day One

Positives

• 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

• 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

Positives

• 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

• 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