1465. The Power of After Action Reports (AAR)

What went well?

What didn’t?

What am I going to do differently?

What lessons did I learn?


This system helps us take responsibility for the outcomes of our actions and decisions.

It shifts blaming someone or something to taking ownership

Because the fact is, we can always control something

Even if it’s just our perspective on the situation, how our mind is viewing whatever it is

That is malleable, that is ours.

No one can take that away from us.

It just takes effort.

And it says a lot about a person who can – even at the most trying times – ask themselves “what am I going to do differently next time”

That one is for the books.

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