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After Action Review: Continuous Improvement Made Easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781634623230
Length 86 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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After Action Review Framework

As shown in the figure below, AAR comprises three stages.

Stage 1 - Individual Reflections

The individuals directly involved in a given activity are asked to think of these four questions:

  • What were you trying to do?
  • What actually happened?
  • What did you like?
  • What would you do differently?

This helps the individuals to frame their thoughts without any external influence.

Stage 2 - Group Insights

This is where all the participants and stakeholders of an activity collectively discuss the lessons learned, and frame ideas for improvement and change going forward.

Stage 3 - Recommend Improvements

From the lessons learned and ideas for the future, the whole group or an assigned subset would make a formal report and recommendation for change. This can sometimes take more time, because in some cases a feasibility study may have to be done before recommendation.

This is generally where the AAR Process...

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