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Team Learning from reviewing what works and how to improve

Mike Cardus

Do you facilitate a team debrief or after-action review? Ensure that the organization creates a supportive learning environment for debriefs. When a team continually shares, identifies what did and did not work, plus discovers what to do better in the future – the team gets better. Debriefs must be diagnostic (i.e.,

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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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. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout

Strategy Driven

We recommend instituting after-action reviews (AARs) – formal learning sessions that were originally developed in the U.S. The best after-action reviews are aimed at uncovering 3 things: what worked, what didn’t work, and what we will do differently in the future. Consider leaving a comment!

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”