How To Run A TEAM RETROSPECTIVE Workshop - Live Facilitation Training
Channel: AJ&Smart
Date: 2023-10-26

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In this video, you will learn how to run a Team Retrospective Workshop step-by-step. This team Retrospective Workshop is based on the Sailboat exercise. This video is a recording of a live facilitation training we run for members of our free facilitation community - Facilitator Club.  

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⏰ Video Timestamps

0:00 Intro
2:22 My Facilitation Journey
3:17 The Brief
5:58 What is a Retrospective
6:58 The Sailboat exercise
9:23 The Materials You Need
10:32 Pre-step - Draw the sailboat
13:56 Step 1 - What’s moving us forward
20:16 Step 2 - What’s holding us back
26:49 Step 3 - Categorise challenges
38:31 Step 4 - Dot Voting
42:50 Step 5 - Re-visualising the challenges
45:20 Next steps - How Might We
46:30 Start of the Q&A
49:02 Q1: What skills did you take from your teaching career to facilitation?
52:11 Q2: How do you run this exercise remotely?
54:26 Q3: How to keep anonymity in a virtual setting
55:45 Q4: What’s your number 1 tip when dealing with difficult participants?
1:02:21 Q5: Is there a way to run this exercise in 25 minutes?
1:04:00 Q6: Can I run this workshop if I’m the team leader? Can I be the facilitator and a participant at the same time?
1:07:14 Q7: Number of participants vs number of sticky notes
1:13:14 Q8: How to encourage people to be honest when expressing their challenges
1:16:29 Q9: How important is the “clustering” part of the exercise?
1:17:58 Q10: What do you do if someone sticks all of their voting dots on one sticky note
1:20:30 Q11: What if all sticky notes get the same amount of votes?
1:21:53 Q12: What type of examples does the facilitator use to illustrate the exercises?
1:23:21 Q13: Techniques to bring shy people to share their thoughts
1:28:12 Q14: What is a clarifying question? A probing question?
1:33:00 Q15: What happens after the sailboat exercise?
1:36:45 Q16: Pros and Cons of In-Person vs Remote vs Hybrid Workshops
1:45:07 What is Facilitation Fundamentals?

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