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These notes are from the daily retrospectives during the TPG offsite in May 2016.

Day One

Positives

  • Enjoyed the space and spreading out on the couches
  • Good easels
  • Talking about why values are important
  • Ad-hoc chartwriter support
  • Happy w/Gradient discussion results
  • We got outputs!
  • Got to bring up "Tic-Tac-Toe of Coaching"
  • Cold Water
  • Learning about personal values
  • Outcome (agreement) of values discussion

Deltas

  • Schedule ambitious
  • Missed having real breakfast
  • Lack of wallspace
  • Paper leads to papercuts
  • No Arthur (who?)
  • Being away from home
  • Moar dots, in moar colors
  • Digressed, over-talked each other, impatience
  • Facilitator was also scribe
  • Full day of intense discussions is tiring, thinking a lot, could break up w/team-building
  • No clock in room

Day Two

Positives

  • 4 PM wine
  • Food was good
  • Learned unexpected things from coaching style
  • Kristen guiding through groan zone
  • More conscious of over-talking
  • Clock helped
  • Felt good to marinate w/TPG
  • Negotiation exercise was energizing
  • Great effort to feed "The Axe"
  • Rotating facilitation
  • Varied participation formats
  • Graced enjoyed people with which she partnered

Deltas

  • Still hard to followup on paperwork
  • Food generally had sketchy execution
  • Felt less productive/tangible/did not learn how to say “no”
  • Coaching Cycle convo was isolating for Max
  • No real gym
  • 3 days would be better/flexible
  • Offsite “best practices” checklist would be useful
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