leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Think of this as your “after action review.” As you begin to reflect on internal communications, push yourself to move beyond the anecdotal and test your experience so you can think through how you want to rebuild. It’s important to be as brutally honest as possible. We propose taking this 3-step approach:

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 23, 2013

Imagine you had enough money to hire a one-on-one companion, a coach, for every employee. What would happen? First, every employee would be noticeably more productive. Second, every employee would stretch to become better. You would have someone saying, all the time, to each and every employee, “you did this well, and this is what [.].

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the video above, I share: One simple and easy process to review and reflect on your and your team’s work. Working with an agile-team, we chose to replace their after-action review process with Distinctive :: Working Well :: Small Improvements.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 25, 2020

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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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Today, we’d call it an after-action review. She got me some cookies and a glass of milk. Then, when we were sitting at the table and I’d had a little of both, she asked me a question. What will you do differently next year?”. The focus was on the future. Some Lessons Don’t Take.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

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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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 22, 2011

Have an “after action review” to allow them to debrief on what they learned and how they’ll use that learning in the future. It requires you to engage other’s head, heart, and bodies to help them learn in these ways: Challenge them to try new things that will stretch them. Forgive them when they stumble.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Crimes of Cunning - A comedy of personal and political transformation in the deteriorating American workplace.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When we reach (or beat) our goals, do we conduct a robust ‘after action review’ to get to the bottom of what went right? 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 Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be. For example: Your department or division signed up to deliver certain outcomes.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

"Set and forget leadership" is all too common, and it can get us into trouble when it comes to delegating work; here's how to delegate without getting burned. The post Set and Forget Leadership: How to Delegate So You Won’t Get Burned appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2012

The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief. Creating a space for team members to discuss what success will look like, how to get there and creating a deliberate plan to capture what went right, the team purposefully shares knowledge and skills when it can be best used – AT THE START.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

How do we increase the odds of “winning” with the team we have? At the beginning of any game, everyone starts with the same number of players on the board. And in the rush to get things done, we focus on moving those players around the best we can. If … Change the Game: 7 Ways to Build Teammates Who Can Do More Read More ».

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Finally, leaders who are in learning mode conduct fearless after-action reviews, determined to glean useful insights from the results of their experimentation. Creating and capitalizing on learning opportunities can be bolstered by having a coach or peer provide feedback and act as a sounding board.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They have after-action reviews, they talk about bad news, and they exhibit traits of what we call a “learning culture.” Gore, for example, all leaders are “sponsors” of others — they take responsibility for exposing their teams to growth assignments.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience. Regularly ask yourself these questions: Who will receive the knowledge?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A 360 might enable the leader to gain some much needed self-awareness about how actions are perceived by others. Note: This can backfire in a culture of fear - worst case scenario, everyone is so scared that they give the leader GLOWING reviews, and now the leader has "proof" he/she doesn''t have to change.”. Mike Henry Sr.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.

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QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

"Sei" means to look back upon, review, and examine oneself. By effectively, I mean not just identifying lessons and feeling good about it, but putting those lessons into actions the next time. According to Wikipedia , “Han" means to change, turn over, or turn upside down. "Sei"

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

More-formal methods, such as after-action reviews, are useful too. A brown bag lunch with the team, for example, helps to build the team’s relationship with these experts and reinforces collaboration and engagement. Involve Experts as Part of the Brain Trust.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Steve Jobs, after reviewing hundreds of projects when he returned to Apple, famously focused all of Apple on creating and delivering just four great products – consumer and professional versions of a portable (what became the iPhone and iPad) and a desktop (what became today’s Macs).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As one person noted in her after-action review, “By doing our experiment at one site instead of implementing at all 30 of them at once, it took the pressure off. He reported, “Through this learning about cooperation in partnerships, we are running several new projects in the fields of sourcing and coproduction.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail. But then Sears goes from goat to hero again, with the arrival of Arthur Martinez as CEO in the wake of the board shakeup, who revitalizes the retail side of Sears by essentially using the same approach the U.S. Rucci , Steven P.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

Then periodically do "after-action reviews" to evaluate how things are going and identify process adjustments and training needs. Simplify the work to the greatest extent possible, ideally so tasks are assigned to sub-groups of two or three team members. Commit to a communication charter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Performance reviews haven’t disappeared quite yet. “Despite all the buzz about abolishing formal performance reviews, the vast majority of organizations continue to employ traditional vehicles for sharing performance-related information,” reported a recent study by Human Resource Executive. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Closely related to this is the importance of after-action review: getting agile talent right depends on continuous improvement in selecting the right talent, building the partnership, and figuring out how the work is planned, communicated, and executed.

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