4 Ls (Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For)
For the sessions where what you learned matters more than what you'll do next.
The learning-shaped retrospective. Keeping what you learned apart from what you lacked stops the session collapsing into a list of complaints.
Reach for it when
- Write down what a training course, workshop or experiment actually taught you
- Make 'I don't know how to do this' a normal thing to say
- Work out which skills the team is short of before planning who learns what
Pick something else when
- You need decisions by the end of the hour, not reflections
- The team is blocked right now and knowledge gaps are the least of it
- People find this kind of reflection woolly and would rather list problems
The board
What your team sees during Collect. Everyone writes on their own device, and nobody sees anyone else's Notes until the stage closes.
Liked
What you enjoyed
Learned
What you know now that you didn't before
Lacked
What you needed and didn't have
Longed For
What you kept wishing you had
How the session runs
The facilitator moves the room from one part to the next, so nobody has to remember what comes after what.
Collect Notes
Add your notes. Everyone writes at once.
Read-out
Everyone reads their own notes aloud, one at a time
Group Similar Notes
Pull related notes into the same pile
Vote on Topics
Pick what the group should spend its time on
Discuss
Work through the topics in vote order
Session Summary
Check what came out of the session and export it
Prompts that open it up
The facilitator can drop any of these into the room when it goes quiet.
Run 4 Ls (Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For) with your team
Share a six-digit session code. Everyone joins from their own screen, and nobody needs an account to take part.