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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

You just finished a project, event, engagement or training exercise. The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Here are several simple tips for performing high quality after action reviews. After action reviews might seem like extra work, but it’s critical work.

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6 Ways to Use Your Journal to Become a Better Leader

Lead Change Blog

Journaling can be one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective parts of your personal leadership development. Most effective because your journal can be the centerpiece of your leadership development. Plus, a good journaling habit makes all the other parts of leadership development work better. You can do that, too.

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Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

At the beginning of the project, the hopes and concerns are high. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. 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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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 ), you’re ready to design and develop a program that retains Baby Boomers’ knowledge. Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs.

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Good Leaders Are Good Learners

Harvard Business Review

Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders who have attended leadership programs struggle to implement what they’ve learned. Our research on leadership development shows that leaders who are in learning mode develop stronger leadership skills than their peers.