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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. Here are several simple tips for performing high quality after action reviews. The first captures the successes, breakthroughs and positive elements of the event. You aren’t looking for perfection, just positive performance.

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Lessons from the Great Fishing Contest

Lead Change Blog

Positive Attitude isn’t Enough. Today, we’d call it an after-action review. But after I had a way to share in their joy, I felt really good about the day and everything I’d done. A positive attitude is no substitute for preparation. I imagined taking the prize to “Show and Tell” at school. Bottom Line.

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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? When we recognize what we did to help generate the positive results, we can replicate the productive steps and even teach others. But, can we say the same about our successes?

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.