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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Here are several simple tips for performing high quality after action reviews. Share it with the appropriate parties – a report for the boss and action items for the process owners. It’s time to get some feedback.

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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

2:47 How does grit and tenacity developed as a tri-athlete translate into your role as a leader? Developing a sound culture. Making enough professional development available. 11:00 Getting into leadership development with your team. Do after-action reviews. Plan the week out but allow for flexibility.

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Complexity patterns recognition and back to work examples

Mike Cardus

One of the best ways to work with complexity patterns is to create create a cadence of habit with your team and self to gather information in the present and review that information regularly. . Debriefs or after-action reviews develop this cadence or habit. . Distinctive Working Well Small Improvements .

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Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Creating a space for team members to discuss what success will look like, how to get there and creating a deliberate plan to capture what went right, the team purposefully shares knowledge and skills when it can be best used – AT THE START. The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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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? The pace of organizational change is unprecedented, and there is no sign anywhere that it plans to slow down. You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be.

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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? Why do we miss the opportunity to squeeze learning out of those situations that turn out just like (or even better than) we planned? But, can we say the same about our successes? I’ll speak for myself.