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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. 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. The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief.

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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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Good Leaders Are Good Learners

Harvard Business Review

First, leaders set challenging learning goals in the form of “I need to learn how to…” For some leaders, the goal might be to become more persuasive or to be more approachable. With a goal in mind, leaders can identify opportunities to make progress toward it.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative. For example, research by Google, reported by Jolt , points out that less than 20% of tech employees in Silicon Valley believes the training they receive fits their goals and needs. Provide Channels for Sharing Knowledge.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Art Petty , from Management Excellence Blog , says “One of the consistent gaps I see in many leaders is a lack of experience with and understanding of the concepts and tools of project management. Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review. Regular review and after-action review.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

After reflecting on this input, each manager was required to carry out at least one safe-to-fail experiment. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles

Harvard Business Review

Clarify tasks and process, not just goals and roles. All new leaders need to align their team on goals, roles and responsibilities in the first 90 days. Then periodically do "after-action reviews" to evaluate how things are going and identify process adjustments and training needs.

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