Lead Change Blog
JULY 20, 2020
Use Your Journal for Personal After-Action Review. The military uses after-action reviews to critique operational performance. During the day, capture your thoughts about what you did and how you could do it better. Record those things in your journal. Then reflect on them and change your behavior.
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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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). Hansei is an attitude, a way of working.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. Wally Bock , from Three Star Leadership , says “ Every IDP should include lots of review.
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.” And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. And yet, as I write in more detail in Collaboration , after the Bay of Pigs Kennedy brilliantly retooled his group decision-making process.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2016
product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents. For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.
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