Step 1: Review the Mission Timeline
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Step 1: Review the Mission Timeline
1. Review the Mission Timeline: Take time to carefully review the mission timeline together. The goal is to build a shared understanding of the sequence of events from the simulation.
2. Focus on Reviewing, Not Analyzing: At this stage, focus on what happened and in what order. This is not yet the time to analyze, interpret, or judge the team’s response.
3. Identify 2–3 Pivotal Moments: From your review, identify 2–3 specific moments from the team’s experience that are worth exploring further in Step 2.
A pivotal moment may include:
- Key Decisions: When the team faced and resolved a critical choice that influenced the mission’s direction or outcome.
- Unexpected Challenges: When the team had to respond to a sudden obstacle, shift, or disruption.
- Shifts in Team Dynamics: When the team’s energy, coordination, confidence, or overall mood noticeably changed.
- Breakthroughs: When someone’s idea, question, or perspective led to meaningful progress.
- Conflicts or Disagreements: When different views or tensions surfaced and required the team to work through them.
- Turning Points: When a specific action, event, or decision significantly altered the course of the mission.
- Breakdowns in Communication: When misunderstanding, lack of clarity, or missed communication created friction or delay.
- Moments of Strong Leadership: When someone stepped forward in a way that positively influenced the team during a crucial situation.
Mission Timeline Mission-specific view
Mission Timeline
Review the full mission timeline together. This timeline is mission-specific and tied to the incoming team’s experience. Click the image to expand it for closer viewing.
Team Collaboration Board
Use this collaboration board to capture the analysis, insights, and agreed actions from your Mission Retrospective.
Opening Context Not started
Capture your teaming context and confirm whether you are working as a stable, intact team or teaming together for the first time/on-the-fly.
Step 1 — Review the Mission Timeline Not started
Review the mission timeline to build a shared understanding of what happened.
Pivotal Moments
After reviewing the mission timeline, identify 2–5 Pivotal Moments that would be worth analyzing in Step 2.
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Step 2 — Examine a Pivotal Moment Not started
Choose one pivotal moment from the list above to analyze.
B. Identify Insights
Using a series of probing questions — both broadening and deepening — capture insights about your team’s dynamic.
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C. Synthesize Core Insights (from Section B)
Review the insights captured in Section B and synthesize them into 2–3 higher-level Core Insights. Do not add new raw observations here; combine and name what matters most.
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Step 3 — Connect Insights to Actions Not started
Step 3 changes depending on whether the team is an Intact Team or Teaming-on-the-Fly. Return to Opening Context and select a Teaming Context so the correct action-planning prompts are shown.
A. Relate Core Insights
Consider where each Core Insight shows up in your day-to-day working environment. How often do they occur? What is their impact on team effectiveness? Then select one to build your Plan of Action around.
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B. Develop Plan of Action
Select a Core Insight above to develop your Plan of Action.Convert the Core Insight selected above into a Plan of Action for your team. Keep the output clear, timely, and feasible.
After your team has completed Step 1, proceed to Step 2 of the Mission Retrospective with the Team Lead clicking the button on the right.