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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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). Photograph By: Tanmay Vora.

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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

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? What if we could develop as much discipline wringing learning out what’s worked as we do out of what hasn’t? But, can we say the same about our successes? And it’s an enormous missed opportunity.

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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. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. Pre-Mortem page 117. Mike is your answer.

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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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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? Therefore, Situational Leaders need to act as catalysts in the growth and development of those they influence. You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 ), you’re ready to design and develop a program that retains Baby Boomers’ knowledge. Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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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. As time passes, they deploy another new approach: they divide into sub-groups, with one developing a position paper arguing for the military strike, the other for the blockade.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders who have attended leadership programs struggle to implement what they’ve learned. Our research on leadership development shows that leaders who are in learning mode develop stronger leadership skills than their peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both. Experts are often looking for ways to help junior people in their profession, and younger employees are hungry for training and development. Involve Experts as Part of the Brain Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail. Rucci , Steven P.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Now every performer is performing at their top level…” Be a talent developer. Yes, managers of agile talent need to coach and invest in the development of their external experts. That, in turn, means you have to be attentive and connected to those other teams and invest in building those individual relationships.

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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

JUNE 27, 2013

Consider this now familiar view from the field: "I''ve run a virtual team for the past 18 months in the development and launch of [a website.] The software was developed in St. I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.". I am located in Toronto, Canada.

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