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6 Ways to Use Your Journal to Become a Better Leader

Lead Change Blog

Use Your Journal for Personal After-Action Review. The military uses after-action reviews to critique operational performance. During the day, capture your thoughts about what you did and how you could do it better. Record those things in your journal. Then reflect on them and change your behavior.

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Do you Want to Become More Capable? Or, Your Team? – Learn to Conduct Your Own After Action Review(s)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Imagine you had enough money to hire a one-on-one companion, a coach, for every employee. What would happen? First, every employee would be noticeably more productive. Second, every employee would stretch to become better. You would have someone saying, all the time, to each and every employee, “you did this well, and this is what [.].

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Lessons from the Great Fishing Contest

Lead Change Blog

Today, we’d call it an after-action review. She got me some cookies and a glass of milk. Then, when we were sitting at the table and I’d had a little of both, she asked me a question. What will you do differently next year?”. The focus was on the future. Some Lessons Don’t Take.

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Make Sure to Learn from Your…. Successes

QAspire

When we reach (or beat) our goals, do we conduct a robust ‘after action review’ to get to the bottom of what went right? This guest blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni celebrates the September 18 launch of her book with Beverly Kaye, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want.

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Set and Forget Leadership: How to Delegate So You Won’t Get Burned

RapidStart Leadership

"Set and forget leadership" is all too common, and it can get us into trouble when it comes to delegating work; here's how to delegate without getting burned. The post Set and Forget Leadership: How to Delegate So You Won’t Get Burned appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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What Is Situational Leadership®? Understanding This Leadership Model

The Center For Leadership Studies

If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be. For example: Your department or division signed up to deliver certain outcomes.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Do employees speak up, challenging the leader''s plans, decisions, and actions if they see a gap? I raise these and other questions in my blog post, Get Your Reality Checked.”. Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , says “ Improve Your Perception: A reputation that took decades to build can be threatened by a single event.