How to retro

You've had a week to get clear on your circle of influence. Now you'll have a chance to take some time out to reflect on how it went.

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[00:00:00] Pia: You've had a week to get clear on your circle of influence. Now you'll have a chance to take some time out to reflect on how it went. I'm Pia.

[00:00:08] Dan: And I'm Dan, and this is Squadify Connects. Okay, so let's talk about what a retro is. The word comes from the language around agile ways of working, and it's a crucial practice for continuous learning and iteration through experiments as usual. On Spotify, Connects, we like to keep things a bit simpler than that sounds, but it's not always easy.

[00:00:30] Pia: So here's how to retro. So you ask yourself three questions, what went well, what didn't go so well, and what have I learned so that I could do things differently?

[00:00:42] Dan: Yeah, the key is to be disciplined about doing the retro and then being really honest in answering those questions and don't judge the answers. Perhaps you didn't do anything. Perhaps you didn't understand or forgot what to do. It doesn't really matter. The key is to capture that and learn for the future.

[00:00:59] Pia: So first of all, give yourself five minutes in a quiet space cuz this is a reflective practice. Remember that the goal of this week's experiment was to learn to be more conscious of what you can influence and therefore where your energy and your thoughts are best spent. So given that what went well, what didn't go so well, and what did you learn for the future. Stay in touch.