The After-Action Review - A Leadership Discipline
 This two-day workshop addresses the whole system and how to apply it to the participating organization's goals, challenges and workflow, and how to integrate it into existing knowledge tools, or how to create simple knowledge-capturing devices.The After-Action Review (AAR) is a simple process used to help a team compare its planned results to its actual results, understand causes, and plan for future success. The AAR is more than a meeting held after the fact. It is a learning system that frames action to draw out lessons from a team's own experience and build those lessons into a body of knowledge. In the process, the disciplined focus helps team members observe their own performance improvement over time. Hands-on training covers how to conduct pre-action briefings, AARs and cross-team knowledge-building sessions, all based on methods developed over the past two decades as part of the Army's best learning practice. The program is designed to be conducted for intact organizations. Participating organizations (teams, groups of teams or whole units) will use their own work to practice. They must come with a current work challenge in mind, and be ready to learn from their own experience, and to apply lessons learned in upcoming opportunities. Participating organizations will walk away with an implementable AAR design. While it is not necessary for an entire organization to attend the workshop together, the greater the number of participants who share a challenge, the more immediate will be the benefits realized. Participation of a leader or leaders responsible for the challenge to be addressed is important. The workshop is suited to the needs of both operational teams and the internal consultants who support them. A workshop leader will coach the organizational sponsor in advance to help them prepare for the program. Available for Onsite Delivery To schedule on-site delivery of this two-day workshop contact the Graduate School's Center for Leadership and Management at (202) 314-3580 or by e-mail at olcclda@grad.usda.gov. Back to Organizational Learning Curriculum for Learning Leaders |