Retrospectives
You can use a Retrospective to evaluate your groups' way of working in the recent past, and come up with actions to collaborate more effectively in the near future.
I'm creative in facilitating Retrospectives. The recent past may involve as much as two years of a large project, or as little as a meeting we just had. It was smooth sailing and we're just looking for some small things to improve the next time, or everything went haywire with lots of politics and we're trying to make sense of it, so that we don't mess it up the same way twice.
I employ Retrospective techniques to improve my own business, its' collaborations and its services, e.g. coming up with goals for the new year, evaluating sales calls and improving specific workshops. I also use Retrospectives when consulting, e.g. when I'm involved in a project we do mini-retrospectives for each release, or a client hires me as a neutral outsider to facilitate a Retrospective for them.
My blog collects my experiences with retrospectives: http://me.andering.com/tag/retrospectives/
Services:
- Facilitation of Retrospectives as neutral outsiders with Nynke Fokma and Marc Evers.
- Co-facilitation with your people. We teach by example, e.g. we provide a pair to facilitate a retrospective and share the preparation with a pair inside your company. We mentor by example, and share our preparation and evaluation. After a few retrospectives we will gradually step back to a mentoring role, where we provide guidance, feedback and show how the facilitation patterns we use fit in your context.
- Highly experiential training in Retrospectives through Satir Workshops and QWAN, for which Nicole Belilos of Task24 and I created the Retrospective Hero simulation.
