Briefings
Converting Blame to Learn
One of the essential “swaps” we do as AAR Conductors, is to swap blame for learn. Blame can and...
Common Difficulties Experienced by AAR Conductors
You may recall the quotation from Einstein that describes so perfectly our mission as AAR...
A Brief History of After Action Review
If you type “After Acton Review” into a search engine, there will be thousands of responses and...
How do you know AAR is making a difference?
In seeking to understand the value that After Action Reviews and Before Action Reviews bring to an...
Powerful After Action Review Questions
Becoming an AAR Conductor requires two key behaviours before the AAR happens. The first of these...
The Four Swaps
As we know, our purpose as AAR Conductors is to create the conditions in which others can learn....
Speaking of Language – understanding the descriptive and evaluative phases in the AAR
An essential feature of the AAR structure is the four question model, further divided into two...
Getting to “take off” with AAR
Bring AAR into a new organisation is always harder than you think it’s going to be. Newly trained...
Working with emotions in an AAR
As an AAR Conductor you need to be prepared to work with whatever arises within an AAR, and this...
How does AAR overcome cognitive bias?
Our goal as AAR Conductors is always to be to create the best possible learning environment for...
It’s a big ask: core and supplementary questions in the AAR
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger – American...
How to write the AAR Report
The focus of every AAR is the learning that happens during meeting itself and not the report of...