Topic / team sentiment
Topic sentiment helps you understand how your team feels about specific discussion areas by capturing the overall emotional tone—whether it’s positive, neutral, or negative.
You can assign sentiments manually or let TeamRetro’s AI analyze comments and highlight emerging patterns or concerns.
Each sentiment is color-coded for easy recognition in your insights:
- POSITIVE —>Green
- NEUTRAL —> Grey
- NEGATIVE —> Red
These visual cues help you quickly spot trends and areas that may need attention in your reports.
When creating your custom retrospective template, you can assign a sentiment to each topic. The default is set to None or unknown, but you can update it to reflect the tone that best fits at any time.
Setting the sentiment
Navigate to the RETROSPECTIVES tab within a specific team.
START A RETROSPECTIVE and select from our ready-to-use templates or choose a Blank Template if you wish to start from scratch.
- Navigate to the TOPICS tab and select the desired sentiment for each topic.
The options you can choose from are:
- POSITIVE
- SOMEWHAT POSITIVE
- NEUTRAL
- SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE
NEGATIVE
- The value you choose will influence the insights (reports) metrics that you see on either a team or account level. The sentiment value that you choose can still be changed at a later date, and the insights will change accordingly.
Exploring Team Sentiment
Cross Team Insights and Reports are available only on an Enterprise plan. You can still explore team sentiment at the individual team level.
Common themes
- You can discover common themes at both the account and team levels by looking at a word cloud of all ideas from all retrospectives. The word clouds exclude stop words and idea comments. They are displayed based on the topic sentiment and the color associated with it.
- In addition, you can click on a word cloud to download it as an image and/or click on each individual word to drill down into the individual ideas that word sprouted from. You can filter the word clouds to display either common THEMES or KEYWORDS from your meetings.
- Simply navigate to the team/account HOME page and go to the INSIGHTS —> RETROSPECTIVES or HEALTH tab.
Sentiment trends
- You can track how team sentiments evolve over time by analyzing retrospective data weighted by the number of ideas shared under each topic.
- The visual trends below illustrate the frequency with which different sentiments—positive, neutral, and negative—are associated with discussion topics. Each graph aggregates this sentiment data to illustrate shifts in team mood and engagement.
- SHOW AVERAGE - displays a curve based on the average sentiment of all responses.
- SHOW BREAKDOWN - displays each sentiment as a proportion of all responses.
- You can break this data down further by individual teams and look into a summary and specific themes related to their meetings.
