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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? Well-conducted debriefs can improve team effectiveness by 25% across a variety of organizations and settings.” Have you wondered how to facilitate a team debrief through a learning and review process? What Makes a Team Debrief Effective?

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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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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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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? She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training worldwide. We indeed do learn from our mistakes. But, can we say the same about our successes?

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

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. But your program should do more than just capture and transfer valuable knowledge – it should also sow the seeds of a knowledge culture in the organization. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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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. With a goal in mind, leaders can identify opportunities to make progress toward it. Dave Wheeler for HBR.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Organizations depend increasingly on independent, temporary workers, even for mission-critical work. We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative.

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