Mike Cardus

MARCH 29, 2020

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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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Today, we’d call it an after-action review. She got me some cookies and a glass of milk. Then, when we were sitting at the table and I’d had a little of both, she asked me a question. What will you do differently next year?”. The focus was on the future. Some Lessons Don’t Take.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2019

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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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

If you’ll cultivate the discipline of conducting After Action Reviews (the term the U.S. military uses for the briefing that occurs after every mission) to be sure you think deeply about what worked; what didn’t and what can be improved, this will create energy in the moment and momentum for your next challenge.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 25, 2020

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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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 15, 2021

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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QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

Here are some common pitfalls that should be avoided in any form of reflective exercise: No Actions, No Results: In many other methodologies and cultures, Hansei is termed differently, like retrospectives in Scrum and After Action Reviews in American Culture (developed by US Army).

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When we reach (or beat) our goals, do we conduct a robust ‘after action review’ to get to the bottom of what went right? But, can we say the same about our successes? When something goes well, do we invest the same evaluative energy? And it’s an enormous missed opportunity.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Crimes of Cunning - A comedy of personal and political transformation in the deteriorating American workplace.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2012

The team is called together to do an after-action-review or post-mortem or de-brief. Creating a space for team members to discuss what success will look like, how to get there and creating a deliberate plan to capture what went right, the team purposefully shares knowledge and skills when it can be best used – AT THE START.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

How do we increase the odds of “winning” with the team we have? At the beginning of any game, everyone starts with the same number of players on the board. And in the rush to get things done, we focus on moving those players around the best we can. If … Change the Game: 7 Ways to Build Teammates Who Can Do More Read More ».

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review. Regular review and after-action review. Review with/by another person and your own assessment and review. In my Huffington post I ask IS YOUR HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE.”. Mike Henry Sr.,

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

"Set and forget leadership" is all too common, and it can get us into trouble when it comes to delegating work; here's how to delegate without getting burned. The post Set and Forget Leadership: How to Delegate So You Won’t Get Burned appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

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

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

We recommend instituting after-action reviews (AARs) – formal learning sessions that were originally developed in the U.S. The best after-action reviews are aimed at uncovering 3 things: what worked, what didn’t work, and what we will do differently in the future.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience. Regularly ask yourself these questions: Who will receive the knowledge?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be. For example: Your department or division signed up to deliver certain outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They have after-action reviews, they talk about bad news, and they exhibit traits of what we call a “learning culture.” Gore, for example, all leaders are “sponsors” of others — they take responsibility for exposing their teams to growth assignments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Finally, leaders who are in learning mode conduct fearless after-action reviews, determined to glean useful insights from the results of their experimentation. Creating and capitalizing on learning opportunities can be bolstered by having a coach or peer provide feedback and act as a sounding board.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail. But then Sears goes from goat to hero again, with the arrival of Arthur Martinez as CEO in the wake of the board shakeup, who revitalizes the retail side of Sears by essentially using the same approach the U.S. Rucci , Steven P.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

More-formal methods, such as after-action reviews, are useful too. A brown bag lunch with the team, for example, helps to build the team’s relationship with these experts and reinforces collaboration and engagement. Involve Experts as Part of the Brain Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As one person noted in her after-action review, “By doing our experiment at one site instead of implementing at all 30 of them at once, it took the pressure off. He reported, “Through this learning about cooperation in partnerships, we are running several new projects in the fields of sourcing and coproduction.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The best technique I’ve seen for structuring these coaching sessions may be the after-action review (AAR) procedure developed by the U.S. AAR is a structured review or debrief process for analyzing what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better by the participants and those responsible.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Closely related to this is the importance of after-action review: getting agile talent right depends on continuous improvement in selecting the right talent, building the partnership, and figuring out how the work is planned, communicated, and executed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

Then periodically do "after-action reviews" to evaluate how things are going and identify process adjustments and training needs. Simplify the work to the greatest extent possible, ideally so tasks are assigned to sub-groups of two or three team members. Commit to a communication charter.

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