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

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Beyond the project contribution, technical and functional experts should be asked to share their expertise and educate the team on best practice insights and new innovations in their field of expertise. More-formal methods, such as after-action reviews, are useful too. What are the innovations you find most exciting?

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

In an organizational setting this applies equally, where people empower themselves through creativity, innovation and superior customer service.”. We give a lot of lip service to creativity and innovation, in particular how leaders can "unleash" creativity in their organization. Regular review and after-action review.