Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for Retrospective

The 4 Ls is a retrospective where the team identifies what they liked, learned, lacked, and longed for in a cycle of work.

Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for 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 4 Ls is a retrospective where the team identifies what they liked, learned, lacked, and longed for in a cycle of work.

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

  • Liked: What was good in this cycle?
  • Learned: What did the team learn this cycle?
  • Lacked: What wasn’t good in this cycle?
  • Longed for: What do you wish we had?
  • Next steps: What will we do tomorrow to address this?

How to run this session

  1. Sign in to Interacts and create a new session.
  2. Scroll down and choose the 4Ls 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 4Ls retrospective session usually takes 30 - 60 minutes.