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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

You just finished a project, event, engagement or training exercise. The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Here are several simple tips for performing high quality after action reviews. After action reviews might seem like extra work, but it’s critical work.

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6 Ways to Use Your Journal to Become a Better Leader

Lead Change Blog

Journaling can be one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective parts of your personal leadership development. Most effective because your journal can be the centerpiece of your leadership development. Plus, a good journaling habit makes all the other parts of leadership development work better. So, what do you need?

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Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

At the beginning of the project, the hopes and concerns are high. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief.

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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. 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.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. Make sure you have a project manager in place to mind the details and ensure the program doesn’t veer off course.

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Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout

Strategy Driven

It may sound counterintuitive, but the single biggest thing we can do to achieve stronger results with less burnout is to shut down worthy projects, teams, and task forces. Shutting down projects and prioritizing was key to Apple’s subsequent explosive growth. It’s a year from now and the project has succeeded; why did it work so well?”