Team members and partners meet as a group at this stage to share personal reflections, with individuals reading or summarizing his or her thoughts. The group works together to identify themes that stand out as important and create an overall team reflection that captures everyone's shared learning. Here are the details:
The three questions for reflection are:
After all of the individual reflections are shared, phrases or words are written on sticky notes and posted on flip-chart sheets that are displayed for everyone.
Creating the team reflection: Group members develop a team reflection based on responses to the three reflective questions. The meeting facilitator creates an Affinity Diagram using the information recorded on the sticky notes. The group then organizes the ideas into themes that form the basis of the team reflection. The group has the opportunity to modify and add to the ideas as members work together to develop the themes and create the overall team reflection.
Sustainability and scalability conversation: Once the Affinity Diagram exercise is complete, the group discusses the results of the questionnaire. The facilitator or an assigned recorder summarizes the group’s input to answer the following questions: