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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? When a team continually shares, identifies what did and did not work, plus discovers what to do better in the future – the team gets better. In a variety of forms, debriefs are found across a wide range of organizational types and settings.

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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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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. Ideas for how to make sense of the patterns you notice, a way to create small changes or experiments and see what happens to do more of and less of.

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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? What if we could develop as much discipline wringing learning out what’s worked as we do out of what hasn’t? But, can we say the same about our successes? And it’s an enormous missed opportunity.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.