Methods

Method: ORID

Key messages and intentions!

Objective: What did we hear, see or engage in?

Reflective: How did this resonate with you? How did you react to it?

Interpretative: What are the key messages?

Decisional: What can you actually apply/use?

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Method: Dartboard

Method: Rose & Thorn and Bud: A Mindful Way to Reflect

Ask the group to reflect and be mindful of a Rose, Thorn, and Bud they have experienced. Help them describe new ideas and things they are looking forward to learning or experiencing. Also, give them the opportunity to reflect on those things they found challenging in order to be able to offer better support.

Instructions

1. Define the terms for the activity

Rose = A highlight, success, small win, or something positive that happened.

Thorn = A challenge you experienced or something you can use more support with.

Bud = New ideas that have blossomed or something you are looking forward to knowing more about or experiencing.

2. Brainstorming

Give the group 30 seconds to a few minutes to sit silently to reflect on their rose, bud and thorn. Then give them 5 to 10 minutes to jot down ideas on a piece of paper or print out the graphic organiser provided here.

3. Debrief

Share your own rose, bud, and thorn, and then go around the room asking participants to share their rose, bud, or thorn or reflect on the activity itself.

4. Reflection

Check in after completing the activity and ask participants to notice their energy level and thoughts before and after the activity.

A possible extension for this activity is to brainstorm strategies for turning thorns into roses or to describe ways thorns might support learning and growing.

Source: https://www.mindfulschools.org/inspiration/mindful-reflection/

Method: Happiness Board

After the end of an event the Happiness Board gives the participants the opportunity to give feedback on various aspects of the event, for example:

• to the process and the exercises
• on the technology, the media used and the software
• on the framework and the agenda
• on the participants and cooperation

Alternatively, the feedback can be guided by questions such as

• What is my most important insight?
• What other question do I have?
• What could be improved?
• What is my current feeling as a weather map (sketch/icon)?

The participants note down each answer to a Post-it and position it in the corresponding column. The questions can be answered directly or the next day.

Method: Happiness Radar

Usually a wall - pin board, whiteboard, etc. - is used to work on with Post-it's. On the vertical axis the degree of satisfaction is represented by 3 to 5 smileys. The horizontal axis is either used to list different categories such as "process", "collaboration", "results" (Happiness Radar) or to allow a temporal assignment of the feedback (Happiness Wall)

The Happiness Radar gives participants the opportunity to give feedback on various aspects of the event after an event, e.g:

About the process

• The technology, media and software used
• The framework and the agenda
• The participants and the cooperation

Source:  https://www.funretrospectives.com/happiness-radar

Method: Happiness Wall

The Happiness-Wall accompanies an event permanently and gives the participants the opportunity to communicate their satisfaction or suggestions directly. The feedback is allocated chronologically and is easier to follow afterwards. Highlights and weak phases are recognizable for everyone.

At the beginning of the event, the facilitator should point out that feedback can be given at any time on what was noticed - positive or critical. The facilitator can himself - as a role model - use this wall to reflect his perception:

• Exciting questions from the participants.
• Coffee was there too late.
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During the event you can always turn back to the wall.

The Happiness Wall can also be linked to focal points to which attention should be drawn and on which feedback should be given. If, for example, it is helpful learning for the group to keep the focus on the meta or process level, the wall can be used primarily for process feedback:

• We are in flow.
• The mood is sad.
• We often interrupt each other.
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Method: Retrospective

The retrospective comes from agile management. "Afterwards you are always smarter!" is a common opinion. One would like to be smart enough to carry out a project successfully. In fact, it is mainly the adaptation to the concrete situation as well as the manifold interactions of different teams, decisions and organizations that are the reason why the world is too complex for many projects to be predictable and plannable in advance. Therefore a means of pragmatic adaptation to the realities is needed: retrospectives. Retrospectives are team meetings where it is important to learn from the past: What are our Lessons Learned? To do this, the team members look back together and evaluate what went well and what went badly. They also analyze why things were good or bad in order to come up with measures for improvement.

Purpose

Retrospectives serve to improve, to "sharpen the saw" of a team. Teams can make improvements in the way they work together as individuals and in the choice of tools and processes. These improvements can be in many areas: Higher productivity, fewer errors, better compliance with rules, etc.

Facilitation

Retrospectives are usually performed in the following 5 steps:

• Introduction: Greeting, clarification of the goals of the retrospective etc.
• Collect data: What has happened recently? What was good? What was bad? What data on quality/productivity etc. is available?
• Gain insights: Why are things as they are?
• Decide on measures: What exactly do we want to change and how?
• Finalization

It can be fruitful for teams to conduct retrospectives regulary and also work on longer retrospectives at longer intervals to get an overview of the development. As many project

participants as possible should participate. It can also be useful if only one core team conducts a retrospective because they can then talk more openly about problems in the team than would be possible, for example, with executives present.

Source: https://medium.com/hike-one-digital-product-design/effective-yet-fun-retrospectives-336f6d40a65b

Checklist for successful retrospectives

Is there a moderator and is it clear to everyone who that is?
Does the moderator vary the format of the retrospective?
Does the retrospective generate concrete, realisable (SMART) measures?

Method: Daily (or Regular) Standup

This meeting should happen in regular time periods. A team organises itself and its work in this meetnig without the involvement of managers or external decision-makers. The participants of the Daily (Regular) Standup stand together for a maximum of 15 minutes and talk in turn about the results of the previous days/weeks, barriers and their plan for now. In this way, the team members make their status and major problems transparent and can help each other to remove barriers in order to achieve the jointly set goal.

Source: https://www.knowledgehut.com/blog/agile/how-not-to-be-agile

The purpose of the stand-up is primarily to improve communication and the project process through faster feedback. Through the very short feedback rhythm, the team increases the project speed. Barriers and obstacles are addressed early and can be solved promptly. Regular synchronisation ensures that the team is moving in the same direction and working together towards the same goal.