The only “obstacle” here is that, in order to create an environment like that, you need to start with yourself. People connect best in situations where someone shows compassion, especially when it’s without any obligation. Trust me, there’s always a way you can help each other. The goal of this question is to make your team rethink the values that were broken (if anything was broken). Maybe you even felt isolated or misunderstood. Maybe, at some point, you felt your teammates didn’t have enough sympathy for you. Yet another question reflecting your team cooperation. In this case, trust represents a value that needs to be set up in order to grow a healthy working environment. For example, the most important thing for me is to trust the people I’m working with. Since reading each other’s minds is not an option, everything needs to be said out loud because that’s the only way everybody can be on the same page. What’s the most important thing to have in your team?įirst things first, you need to set expectations and team values.
Everyone, including the boss, stepped up and helped out, even though it wasn’t in their job description.Ĭheck out the new set of questions we came up with: If it was just up to those few people it would’ve taken them more than five hours to clean everything. Well, one of those sectors was in charge of the opening ceremony - which meant, after the ceremony was finished, everything needed to be properly cleaned up. Now, the team that I was working with already had years of experience in this field and each person in the team was an expert in their own sector of work. The work I did wasn’t related to COBE, it was just something I did on my own time. This year I was helping out with the organization of a sport event in Zagreb, Croatia. That’s when we realized that most of our problems appeared due to bad communication - we were a team, but we weren’t acting like one. We thought our communication was great and we should just continue doing what we were doing, but after some time, we decided to change the way we were doing the retrospective. We were mostly just repeating ourselves without making any substantial changes and what made it even more interesting, we didn’t see anything wrong with that. These questions were working just fine for a while, until I noticed the outcome of every retrospective started to look the same - and that became a problem.
My first instincts were to try out some regular questions, such as: When I started working as a Scrum Master, the biggest challenge I’ve faced was creating a good retrospective.