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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? Have you wondered how to facilitate a team debrief through a learning and review process? 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.

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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

It’s good to be aware of the risk; and like any other risk, you need to manage it. One of the ways we can manage the pace, energy and engagement of our team is to ensure frequent, appropriate celebrations. If you’ll cultivate the discipline of conducting After Action Reviews (the term the U.S. Set a New Goal.

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What Is Situational Leadership®? Understanding This Leadership Model

The Center For Leadership Studies

This is why it becomes exponentially more difficult when we become people managers and need to help others figure them out as well. If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? It can be messy and vague. The world is dynamic.

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

Strategy Driven

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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