[33]Conduct After-Action Reviews
AFTER IMPORTANT EVENTS, failures, or deadlines, the most successful leaders spend time reviewing what occurred as a team. By doing so, you will create an environment of continuous improvement and feedback. As previously mentioned, this approach will assist you and your team in reflecting on what occurred.
In the military, this is called an After-Action Review. According to leadership scholar Bruce Avolio, the process has several phases and begins with a discussion of the event so that a shared meaning of what happened can be developed.19 After this step, participants engage in a discussion of why events unfolded in the manner they did, followed by the development of alternative courses of action. Leaders who have ...
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