This is one of the simplest and fun (if done well!) agenda templates to conduct a retrospective meeting. You simply ask the attendees three questions:

1. In the last sprint / project what made you glad? 😊
2. What made you mad? 😠
3. What made you sad? 😥

The answers you will get here would be much more emotion driven e.g. "I hated that we do so many unnecessary meetings" vs "Our meetings can be decreased by 12% by doing X step". And that is totally fine. This is a great outlet for the team members! A few things to note:

• Give people time to reflect: Which means you should share the meeting template for glad sad mad in advance to everyone. People will not be able to give good responses if you make this too last minute.
• Anonymous responses: When you send the template (via email or Google forms) to your team, you can opt to not collect respondee names. You should opt for this post a stressful project. Or if you feel that your team culture doesn't support full transparency today.

• Keep the focus on emotions: Encourage people to write how they "feel" about X. Not about root cause of X, or solutions to make it better.
• Don't get personal: As the meeting facilitator, it's your job to steer away from any personal attacks. If something made a person feel bad, they should not be pointing to "who" made that happen.
• Try some Icebreakers: A good set of Icebreaker questions when you start the meeting can be a great way to put everyone at ease.

A good set of responses would look something like this:

What made you glad?

• We hit all our goals
• We got 3 new team members joining us
• The new clients are loving us
• We were able to decrease our app loading speeds

What made you mad?

• No one does post-mortem of newly shipped features
• Why do we not track our core metrics??
• We do not arrive on time for standup meetings

What made you sad?

• We couldn't improve our email marketing metrics :(
• I fell sick for 3 days