Keep doing what you are doing with your after action reviews. Sounds like solid advice, right? Not exactly!
All too often after action reviews are faint echoes of the rigorous processes to identifying lessons that benefit meetings, work teams or projects. Companies tend to treat the after action review process as a pro-forma wrap-up, drawing lessons from an action but rarely learning from them
A raw lesson becomes a lesson learned when it is successfully applied and validated: fed back into the execution cycle.
Lead learning in the thick of it: