Improving the Team With Good Statements

Why?

This Mirotemplate helps to identify difficulties or impediments in a team by using virtual "cards" that combine:

• a statement

• symbol, icon, illustration

• dot voting

Usually this combination makes it easier for team members of a retrospective or workshop to open up and share their perspective on the team situation (as opposed to ask them directly what they think).

With this approach, it often becomes very clear where the 2-3 main issues are - because the dot voting on cards visualizes clearly a cluster.

Target Audience

Every team (no matter if software, agile or not, but some of the cards provided are made for agile software teams).

How?

• prepare the board with those cards that represent a "problem" in the team that you would like to address in a smart way

• the selection of cards depends on the facilitators observations or input (e.g.: you observed that in some meetings of the team there has been a behavior that might be toxic for team dynamics)

• feel free to create your own cards with a statement and an icon from the Miro library or other sources.

• balance the number and variety of cards: not too many and also not too few that focus (and bias) only on one topic

• move the cards to the blank space in the main exercise

• prepare names of the participants

• after introduction and check-in: explain the card exercise and asks participants to use the dots (and if they like also arrows) to indicate where they think they are doing well or not so well currently (depending on team size and number of cards: 10-15 minutes)

• then go through the cards with team and start with card that got most dots (no matter if green or red)

• ask: what made you set a dot here...

• usually people explain the reason and a discussion starts

• in cases of cards with red dots: have in mind to ask something like "how might we change that, improve here, what could we do about it...?"