This is probably the best feedback discussion you and your team have ever had - at least according to many of our customers.

Collecting feedback, and then sharing it openly with others sheds light to your team dynamics, builds trust, and improves team cohesion. Regardless of how actively your team members usually give feedback to each other, a feedback week always brings up some new observations and pieces of feedback.

When to use it?

Try it once. And if you find it valuable, make it a monthly, bimonthly or quarterly team habit.

How long does it take?

What roles are there?

1 person is the facilitator and timekeeper (this is probably you, the reader), others are equal participants.

What are the pitfalls of this framework?

Negative spirals – easy to avoid by agreeing not to blame anyone for poorly delivered feedback, and intervening with the discussion if it seems to steer away from the original feedback.

Limited time – stick to the schedule and agree to continue discussions 1-1 after the session if needed.

Preparations

Make sure every participant has recently collected and received some feedback in Teamspective; check your team’s feedback stats page (only visible to team admins).

The feedback needs to be available in the meeting.

Participation

In-person: a meeting room, a pub or any other place with room to gather as a group will do just fine.

Remote: each using their laptop with video on.

Hybrid: may be unequal, so not recommended (doesn’t mean you can’t try).