Resilient TeamRelational Game
The Retrospective (Rapid Learning)
reviewing history→updating internal maps
The Goal
Extract learning from failure and completion fast to improve the next cycle.
Ideal For
Post-project reviews and high-frequency execution teams.
The Shift
From reviewing history to updating internal maps.
The Neuroscience
Learning research shows the brain updates expectations through prediction errors — the gaps between what we expected and what actually happened. Reflection at completion is when those updates consolidate, which is why a disciplined retrospective improves the next cycle: early learning is driven by deliberate strategy, while implicit habits adapt more gradually.
From the research
The thinking behind this lab, published in full: