Businesses and the employees who populate them are often so busy moving from project to project that they don’t have time to sit down and evaluate what went well and what went wrong.
In other words, they often don’t go through the exercise of having a lessons-learned meeting. Even when lessons-learned meetings are held, they often don’t achieve the objective of providing a thorough review.
What’s an AAR?
Mike Harris advocates for companies to simulate the military’s After-Action Review (AAR). The name sounds pretty straightforward, but just what exactly is an AAR? Harris points to an old (1993), but still relevant, circular from the Department of the Army, that provides a definition.
