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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Today the military uses a range of formalities (as do countless industries and organizations), but the essence is to capture two elements: what went well and what can be improved in the future. It’s time to get some feedback. What do you do next?

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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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To better manage and understand yourself and work – you need to seek different patterns

Mike Cardus

Working with an agile-team, we chose to replace their after-action review process with Distinctive :: Working Well :: Small Improvements. Working with a management team from a health care organization, we used this process early in the covid19 pandemic to understand and look for patterns in the rapid changes.

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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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Tony interviewed about his new novel

Tony Mayo

Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. This podcast is an interview about Tony’s new novel, Crimes of Cunning: A comedy of personal and political transformation in the deteriorating American workplace.

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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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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. But, can we say the same about our successes? And it’s an enormous missed opportunity.