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Learning Loop Deck

When to use

• Your team ran a series of experiments and leadership wants to know what you learned, not a blow-by-blow timeline
• A course, workshop, or training program ended and you need to show how participants progressed, loop by loop
• A product or campaign improved over several iterations and the story is "each round taught us something"
• A research or pilot project produced more learning than final results, and the learning is the deliverable
• A retrospective needs to become a shareable deck — what you tried, what the evidence said, what changed next

Workflow

1. Name the loop (input: your project history → output: one loop sentence)
   State the cycle your work actually followed in one sentence: "Each loop we guessed what would help, tried the smallest version, checked the evidence, and kept what worked." If your work didn't repeat, it isn't a learning-loop deck — use a timeline or a report deck instead. The loop sentence goes on slide 1 and every cycle slide repeats its four stages in the same order, so the audience learns the rhythm once and then reads fast.
2. Collect one cycle per loop (input: notes, data, artifacts → output: cycle cards)
   For each loop, gather four facts: the hypothesis ("we believed X"), the try (what you actually did, with scope and dates), the evidence (what you observed — a number, a quote, a screenshot), and the lesson (what you now believe instead). One loop = one card. If a loop is missing evidence, say so on the card — a loop with "no data collected" is an honest finding, not a gap to hide. Three to five loops make a good deck; more than six, merge the weakest.
3. Build the cycle slides (input: cycle cards → output: one 4-stage slide per loop)
   Each loop gets one slide with the same four-stage layout: Hypothesis → Try → Evidence → Lesson. Keep each stage to one or two lines. Put the evidence in the largest type on the slide — it is the only stage that is a fact rather than a claim. Add a small "loop N of M" marker so the audience always knows where they are in the sequence. If two loops taught the same lesson, say so and merge them; repetition without new learning is padding.
4. Write the pattern slide (input: all cycle cards → output: what the loops add up to)
   After the last cycle, add one slide that names the pattern across loops: which hypotheses kept surviving, which kind of try kept failing, what the evidence kept pointing at. This is the deck's thesis — everything before it was the proof. Do not introduce new claims here; every line on the pattern slide must trace back to a specific loop's evidence stage.

Template preview

Learning Loop Deck — Template

Fill in one block per loop. Keep each stage to one or two lines. Evidence goes in the largest type.

Title slide

Project: {project name} Our loop: Each loop we {hypothesized}, tried {the smallest version}, checked {the evidence}, and kept {what worked}. Date range: {start} – {end}

Loop {N} of {M}

What we will stop / keep / start because of this loop: {one line}

*(Repeat this block for each loop — aim for 3–5 loops.)*

Pattern slide

What the loops add up to:

1. {Pattern} — seen in loops {N, M}
2. {Pattern} — seen in loops {N, M}

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