Difference between revisions of "After Action Review"

{{Term|AFTER ACTION REVIEW|Briefing or analysis following the completion of an activity to allow employees and leaders to  see whether anything could have or should have been done differently. It is a process developed to help teams to learn quickly from their successes ([[Good Practices|good practices]]) and failures ([[Lessons Learned|lessons learned]]) and share their learning with other teams and it should be performed after each identifiable event or milestone, and becomes a live learning process to help support [[Learning Organizations|learning organizations]]. It involves conducting a professional structured and facilitated discussion after a task or project has been completed to review what should have happened, what actually happened and why it happened; this allows participants to learn how to sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses in subsequent tasks or projects.<ref> [http://www.library.nhs.uk www.library.nhs.uk](14 April 2008), [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] (14 April 2008), [http://www.au.af.mil www.au.af.mil] (14 April 2008) </ref> See also: [[Action Review]].  

{{Term|AFTER ACTION REVIEW|Briefing or analysis following the completion of an activity to allow employees and leaders to  see whether anything could have or should have been done differently. It is a process developed to help teams to learn quickly from their successes ([[Good Practices|good practices]]) and failures ([[Lessons Learned|lessons learned]]) and share their learning with other teams and it should be performed after each identifiable event or milestone, and becomes a live learning process to help support [[Learning Organizations|learning organizations]]. It involves conducting a professional structured and facilitated discussion after a task or project has been completed to review what should have happened, what actually happened and why it happened; this allows participants to learn how to sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses in subsequent tasks or projects.<ref> [http://www.library.nhs.uk www.library.nhs.uk](14 April 2008), [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] (14 April 2008), [http://www.au.af.mil www.au.af.mil] (14 April 2008) </ref> See also: [[Action Review]].