Mad / Sad / Glad Retrospective

The retrospective should be a positive, energizing experience for your team. It helps everyone share important feedback, let go of frustrations, and work together to ideate improvements in the way of working and mutual understanding. A fruitful retrospective should output a list of things that the team can start doing, changing or removing.

The mad / sad / glad retrospective frames discussion around the emotional journey of the team for a cycle of work. It's a useful way to discover opportunities to improve team morale and ways of working.

This Interacts template creates a collaborative space with sticky notes, word clouds,  polls, and more to explore the following topics:

• 😊 Glad: What made the team glad this cycle?
• ☹️ Sad: What made the team sad this cycle?
• 😡 Mad: What made the team mad this cycle?
• 🚀 Next steps: What are your ideas for next steps?

How to run this session

1. Sign in to Interacts and create a new session.
2. Scroll down and choose the Sad / Mad / Glad retrospective template.
3. You will notice a pre-populated session setup with all the relevant prompts.
4. Add, edit, or remove prompts at your discretion.
5. Click Save session, and that's it. You're ready to go.
   The Sad / Mad / Glad retrospective session usually takes 20 - 40 minutes.