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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? In a recorded webinar (below) I share with a management team the team debrief or after action learning process called Distinctive: Working Well: 100 Days Better. Record conclusions made and goals set during the debrief and follow-up.

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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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Surviving Success

Nathan Magnuson

If you’ll cultivate the discipline of conducting After Action Reviews (the term the U.S. military uses for the briefing that occurs after every mission) to be sure you think deeply about what worked; what didn’t and what can be improved, this will create energy in the moment and momentum for your next challenge.

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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? Identify the Task – Leadership initiates with something to do: an objective to fulfill, a goal to accomplish, a task to complete. Did you wait too long to make certain decisions?

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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? We indeed do learn from our mistakes. But, can we say the same about our successes? When something goes well, do we invest the same evaluative energy? And it’s an enormous missed opportunity.

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Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Pre-Animate focuses the team on what is needed for accomplishing the goals and objectives. The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief. A project that has a defined goals and expected outcomes. At the beginning of the project, the hopes and concerns are high. Post-it notes.

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

Strategy Driven

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. During the design phase you will also establish the goals and objectives of your program. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience.

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