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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

Use Your Journal for Personal After-Action Review. The military uses after-action reviews to critique operational performance. Use your journal to capture your thoughts when you complete a project or a major initiative. Record those things in your journal. You can do that, too.

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A Better Approach to After-Action Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Three myths that impede their proper use — and three strategies to help your team make the most of the practice.

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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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How Conduct a Remarkably Better Post-Mortem Review

Let's Grow Leaders

Ditch the Post-Mortem and Hold a Post-Project Celebration If you’re like most managers we talk with, you know the importance of post-mortem reviews. But unless your project ends in disaster, it’s easy to skip the review and move on to the next […].

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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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Good Leaders Are Good Learners

Harvard Business Review

These could include a new project, an international assignment, a job rotation, or simply striving to approach routine encounters in a fundamentally different way. Finally, leaders who are in learning mode conduct fearless after-action reviews, determined to glean useful insights from the results of their experimentation.